Further activities

Since 2002 a lot of Buddy Bears are sold by auction at several events. Among others in the office of the federal President by Christina Rau, at Second Channel of German Television Broadcasting (ZDF) by Michael Schanze, in the WM-Studio of ZDF by Wolf-Dieter Poschmann. In the German General Consulat in Los Angeles a Buddy Bear was auctionned of for "Classrooms in Afghanistan" in attendance of Thea Gottschalk, Elke Sommer and Uschi Obermeier. Further auctions were for example held by Prof. Stölzl or Bishop Dr. Huber.

Some Buddy Bears were auctioned by ebay. Among others one bear which was painted by the world famous wall artist of the East-Side Gallery, Thierry Noir, was sold by auction in aid of the children helping project "Die Arche".

There are also auctions far away from Germany:

In April 2005 three Buddy Bears were auctioned off in Istanbul; three further bears will be sold by auction in late autumn.

By now, more than 230.000 € have thus been obtained for charity purposes. At bigger and smaller auctions, as well as through donations and incomes from catalogues following organisations (among others) could be supported:

UNICEF,
The children helping project "Die Arche",
Cabuwazi-children circus,
Children of the Stiftung Deutsche Schlaganfallhilfe (German Stroke Foundation),
a kindergarten harmed by the flow in Nossen at Dresden,
Center for children "Ottokar e.V". Berlin,
Children club in the "Freizeithaus am Mauerpark",
the day nursery "Fuggerstr. e.V.",
the integration project of the Association of German Boy and Girl Scouts,
"Kinder in Gefahr" ("Children in Danger"),
the "Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung" (children's aid and streetkids projects),
Sterntaler e.V.,
"Förderverein für hochbegabte Kinder e.V." (association in support of highly talented children),
"LABUDE",
"evangel. Kinder- und Jugendhaus" in Lichtenrade,
a children helping project in Maputo / Mosambique,
Fritz-Walter-Stiftung,
"100 classrooms for Afghanistan",
"Kinder aus Kiew - Petschersk" (a project of the district office Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf of Berlin),
Berliner Initiative Kinder in Gefahr e.V.,
City Stiftung Berlin i.G.,
Olympiastützpunkt Berlin,
Kinderhilfe e.V.,
Aids-Gala Berlin,
and further.