Successful swimmer wants to work for the victims thought

Kirsten Bruhn - WR ambassador. Photo: Günter Santjer / Ring eV

Mainz - Kirsten Bruhn has been named the Ambassador of the white ring. So they want to contribute as a successful athlete to strengthen the public awareness for the needs of crime victims continues. Paraplegic after a motorcycle accident in 1991, the previously successful swimmer for about ten years later returned to competitive sports. Your balance at the Paralympics in Beijing: 1 gold (breast), 1 x Silver (back), 3 x bronze (freestyle). At the German Short Course Championships in Chemnitz, a few weeks later, they struck at each of her five starts as a winner.

A successful athlete has been and Kirsten Bruhn since childhood. But what can not guarantee a victory and no medals are of the firm determination and strength to overcome his life, even after a heavy blow. Learned as Kirsten Bruhn of the petition of the white rings through her personality and her popularity to incorporate the important thought of the victims even more in the public consciousness, she said spontaneously, and showed that while the not self-evident willingness, a certain responsibility to the community with to take over. Recognize not least because such exemplary commitment and crime victims feel that they are not forgotten in a world often thoughtless.

For the white ring and for the victims whole, it is particularly important when individuals express their sympathy in public life and their willingness to support this important societal concerns. In recognition of this commitment, Kirsten Bruhn was appointed by the Managing board of the charitable federal recently appointed ambassador of the white ring.

We are sure, a spokesman for the white rings that we will succeed Kirsten Bruhn by their positive attitude and her powers of persuasion to convince many people to get deeper into the difficult lives of crime victims and their families as well as with the work of WHITE RINGS as to employ previously. This commitment to the idea of ​​victim support and therefore deserves for one of the most important obligations of a modern polity thanks, respect and recognition. Source: Helmut K. Elm, White Ring

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