Dialog in the Dark needs your support!

The Corona Pandemic has hit Dialoghaus Hamburg hard! The previous form of encounter in dialogue is suddenly hardly possible and only on a much too small scale. As a result, we are missing out on a large part of our income. The basis of our economic survival as a social enterprise without public funding has been lost. Thanks to the state rescue package and an approved loan with a repayment period starting in 2022, we were able to avert the threat of insolvency for the present moment. But the pandemic has created a new reality. In order to secure the jobs and maintain the attractiveness for our visitors, we must now adapt and develop exhibition formats, carry out conversion measures and turn our blind guides into experts again. This is the only way we can make dialogue in the dark sustainable and economically sound again. And thus also secure jobs for blind people in the future and thus their dignity.

With your contribution, we can revise the exhibition Dialogue in the Dark and make urgently needed changes. In this way we can secure jobs for our blind employees and remain attractive for our audience. Especially children and young people receive a verifiable life-changing impulses through Dialogue in the Dark. They recognise the potential that lies even in a severe disability and change their perception in relation to other realities of life. It is therefore important that we continue to reach as many people as possible.

We are the leading social enterprise in Germany and have been able to spread our mission worldwide - to 50 countries with 700,000 visitors annually. We have succeeded in keeping an exclusively social mission entrepreneurially alive for over 20 years. Without charitable gifts or state subsidies. Entrepreneurially. We do not see the deficits, but the potentials. In our eyes, blind people are not supplicants, victims or passive recipients of benefits. They have talent and the ability to convey to us who see a world that is rich even without the beautiful sight. They want to make a contribution to society. And have to earn money. This strengthens their self-esteem and leads to many of our blind employees suddenly setting themselves goals - and achieving them - that they never dreamed of before.
Corona has taken all our income and shown that we need to fundamentally revise both our rooms and our concept. We need your support for this! In this way we can continue to employ many blind people in the future and open the eyes of sighted people to the fact that the essential things can only be seen with the heart. We have developed a series of attractive rewards that will give you a valuable consideration for your financial support. Please take a look at which reward is right for you.

Our concrete plans for design and conversion are implemented. We need eight weeks and € 94,000 for this. This gives us a stable basis for continuing to pursue our mission: The jobs for our blind and visually impaired colleagues will be preserved and at least 70,000 people a year will experience the importance of empathy and how inclusion can be lived. We are changing society. You help us to do so.