Every year, Café Yucca in Zurich Niederdorf organizes a Christmas dinner for those in need. We are very proud to be able to support the institution with a donation of around CHF 2,500, thus providing a pleasant evening for the homeless and people in difficult life situations. Our customers made this possible. With the purchase of the DillySocks® Advent calendar, CHF 5 / EUR 5 went to the worthwhile campaign.
This is what Café Yucca does
If you approach the Café Yucca at Häringstrasse 20 in the Niederdorf district of Zurich at 3 p.m., you can already see small groups of people gathering around the inconspicuous institution. The café opens its doors every day at 3:15 p.m. and has been doing so for over 50 years. Everyone is welcome. They meet there, warm themselves up in the winter and there is coffee, soup and personal advice. It is not uncommon for those in need to find themselves in existential distress. The Yucca team helps in an unbureaucratic and low-threshold manner. They do what is possible and people receive professional support.
TeleZüri recently featured a report on Café Yucca, which you can stream directly here:
Background to the 2023 Sock Advent Calendar fundraising campaign
As a sustainable company, it is very important for DillySocks® to also provide positive social and societal impulses. We do this regularly and with various partners. For the fundraising campaign around the DillySocks® sock advent calendar, it was important to us to have as positive, as local and as direct an impact as possible. With this fundraising campaign, we deliberately wanted to strengthen an organization that is active in our Zurich home base. We want to have an impact - as positive and direct as possible. So in March 2023 we set off on our socks to Café Yucca and, together with the manager Kurt Rentsch, looked for a way to help the café effectively and directly. We quickly found a common, suitable occasion. Namely the traditional Christmas dinner that Café Yucca organizes every year for the homeless and people in need. Suitable because DillySocks® brings out a sock advent calendar every year as a Christmas special. The product and the occasion go together like our socks go together with healthy feet. For every Advent calendar sold to our webshop customers, we donate CHF 5 or EUR 5 to Café Yucca's Christmas dinner.
Quote from Kurt Rentsch, who has been working at Café Yucca for 30 years and is now its manager:
"The Advent campaign raised far more than we need for Christmas. A hundred people enjoyed a wonderful celebration. Just as many will be delighted if we can use the rest of the donations to host a raclette party. It's like an extended Christmas in March."
So far so good. In total we raised a wonderful sum of CHF 2,550, which we were able to transfer to Café Yucca in January. We are very proud of this. We would especially like to thank our customers for purchasing the Advent calendar. It was only thanks to them that the donation became a reality. We would like to thank Café Yucca for its commitment to people without shelter and in difficult life situations. And we wish the visitors to the café a lovely evening and bon appetit.