“The Mast family provides invaluable support to the Robert Enke Foundation. I am incredibly grateful to them for their encouragement and support of our foundation’s work to promote acceptance of depression as an illness. With such a strong partner at our side, we can succeed in bringing this taboo topic into the public eye so that people suffering from depression and mental crises can get the help they need before it’s too late.”
Teresa Enke, Chair of the Robert Enke Foundation
“The Mast family provides invaluable support to the Robert Enke Foundation. I am incredibly grateful to them for their encouragement and support of our foundation’s work to promote acceptance of depression as an illness. With such a strong partner at our side, we can succeed in bringing this taboo topic into the public eye so that people suffering from depression and mental crises can get the help they need before it’s too late.”
Teresa Enke, Chair of the Robert Enke Foundation
Robert Enke Foundation
Robert Enke was a German footballer, playing for Hannover 96, and an eight-time keeper for the German national team. He suffered from depression for several years. On November 10, 2009, Robert Enke took his own life. He left behind his wife Teresa Enke and an eight-month-old daughter. Robert Enke’s death was met with a deep outpouring of emotion and sympathy that cut across numerous social divides. His tragic death brought the disease of depression into the public eye. (Source: www.Robert-Enke-Stiftung.de)
In addition to the subject of depression, the Robert Enke Foundation has another focus. Shortly after her second birthday, the Enkes´ daughter Lara, who suffered from a heart condition, died following an ear operation. Even after his daughter’s death, Robert Enke tried to be grateful for the short time he and his wife Teresa had had with Lara. He remembered Lara lovingly: “In every other photo you could see her laughing; she was such a brave, happy child.”
The Robert Enke Foundation supports projects, initiatives and facilities that educate about children’s heart conditions and depression and serve to research or treat these illnesses.
The Mast family has supported the foundation’s educational outreach activities for several years in various projects that address depression as a disease and chip away at the surrounding taboos.
In this way, the foundation enables valuable support for people with depression and their relatives.
“Teresa Enke has shown incredible strength in accepting the hand that life dealt her and deciding to reach out and help others in similar situations. Her determination has always impressed my wife and me and led to the decision to support Teresa’s work in the long term.”
Florian Rehm, spokesman for the entrepreneurial family
Would you like to support the work of the Robert Enke Foundation?
Please direct your donation to one of the following accounts:
Hotline Tel.: +49-241-803-6777
Hours:
Mon. trough Fri: 9am to 12pm and 1pm to 4pm
Stadtsparkasse Barsinghausen
BIC: NOLADE21BAH
IBAN: DE31 2515 1270 0000 1477 51
Commerzbank Hannover
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IBAN: DE63 2504 0066 0442 4800 00
For further information, please visit www.Robert-Enke-Stiftung.de.
