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For more than 20 years, the Ambassador Club's traditional charity event “Angel Tree” has been part of Berlin's calendar of events during the Christmas season. In 2025, the President of the Ambassador Club, Mania Feilcke-Dierck, together with General Manager Tina Brack, once again invited guests to the Westin Grand Hotel on Friedrichstraße in Berlin-Mitte.

Almost 30 Excellencies and Diplomats from all over the world accepted the invitation and, together with the patron, Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Nikola Eterović, placed gifts under the Christmas tree. The gifts were handed over to the association “ICKE in Buch” by the Helios Clinic Berlin-Buch, where children and young people have to spend the Christmas season in hospital.

Modeled on the Angel Tree in the USA, Origins in the US Salvation Army

The Angel Tree originated in the Salvation Army in the USA. Children from poorer backgrounds wrote their gift wishes on greeting cards featuring an angel and hung them on a Christmas tree. Charitable people chose a wish they wanted to fulfill and placed the gift under the tree. The Salvation Army then distributed the gifts to the parents, who could give them to their children.

There is another version of the Angel Tree in Czechia. As part of the charity program, children whose father or mother is in prison receive a Christmas gift.

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