PASS Engagement

The PASS Late Year Benefiz concert series has been held annually since 2003. Proceeds benefit charitable children's and youth projects in the Rhine-Main area as well as in developing countries.

The proceeds from the Late Year Benefiz 2024 will be used to support the construction of a school in Sierra Leone, Africa.

The PASS Late Year Benefiz was born out of a company Christmas party in 2001, where the idea was to make the event more beautiful, more interesting and more sustainable. From then on, it became a public benefit concert. After beginnings in the city hall Aschaffenburg, one moved further into the Capitol Offenbach and finally, starting from 2005 into the old opera Frankfurt.

After Madagascar, Namibia, and Malawi, PASS 2025 is also involved in Sierra Leone. 25,000 euros in donations from the PASS Late Year Benefit 2024 will go towards the construction of the “New Hope School” in Freetown, Sierra Leone. The project was launched on the private initiative of Prof. Jörg Klepper, MD, Director of the Aschaffenburg-Alzenau Children's Hospital, and Dr. Stephanie Flörke-Klepper, MD.

The civil war in Sierra Leone (1991-2002) was one of the most violent post-colonial conflicts on the African continent. Even today, great poverty, hunger and, unfortunately, violence still prevail as a result. Crime is particularly high among young people.

Thanks to the donation from PASS, the project can now be implemented within a year – originally several years were planned.

The NGO Commit and Act has been active in Sierra Leone for many years and focuses on training adults in the healthcare sector. Commit and Act also offers girls who have been victims of violence a shelter with medical, psychosocial and legal assistance. There are also projects for the prevention of violence, sustainable nutrition and education for children and adults.

Inspired by the success of the project in Namibia, PASS supported the construction of another school in 2023 in cooperation with the Rotary Club of Aschaffenburg and the Reiner Meutsch Foundation Fly & Help. This time in Malawi, Africa. Proceeds for this had been collected by the company at the PASS Late Year Benefit 2022 in the Alte Oper Frankfurt. At the beginning of January 2023, the donation of 30,000 euros was handed over to the Rotary Club. 

A school was to be built outside the capital Lilongwe, in a rural area, to promote school education and positive personal development of the children.

A suitable plot of land was quickly found: On the western outskirts of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi, in the village of Mzungu. The municipality provided the land for the school construction free of charge.

The construction of an urgently needed primary school in Masumba, Malawi, will also start in 2025. The school is due to open its doors in time for the 2025/26 school year - an important step for the educational future of children in this region.

The project is made possible by the generous support of many private donors: the proceeds from the “PASS Late Year Benefit” concert 2023 with Stefanie Heinzmann, the proceeds from the raffle at the after-show party and a donation from the PASS Consulting Group together form the financial foundation of the school construction.

This is the fifth school to be built with donations from the PASS Late Year Benefit. On-site implementation is once again being carried out under the direction of Reiner Meutsch Stiftung FLY & HELP.