Improving the playground at Salbgerhaus
The Salberghaus is a professionally recognized Children and Youth Services facility with diverse inpatient, partially inpatient, and outpatient services for children aged under 10 years. In addition to the care and support of children, the advice, guidance, and support of parents and families is an important part of the work. To make the stay for the children as pleasant as possible, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation renewed the playground. A beech hedge was created for privacy from the street and to delimit the terraces for the special education center. Furthermore, the children at the Salberghaus received colourful Easter baskets as part of the Sixt visit in 2016.
Renovation of Day Care Center Mahou
Learn better, play more freely. "I am totally moved when I see how the children use their imagination and skills to make window curtains out of paper or build musical instruments out of crown corks and empty shoe polish tins under these simple circumstances. It shocks me to see the level of poverty in which the country's future leaders have to grow up and how [...]
Renovation of Pavlion at Sophie Scholl School
Consistent inclusion. The Sophie-Scholl-Schule in Wetterau near Bad Nauheim is an inclusive school. Inclusion encompasses the vision of changing all areas of society so that they are actually accessible to all people without barriers. The flagship of the schoolyard is the pavilion, which was in urgent need of renovation. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation therefore supported the refurbishment, so [...]
Courtyard and garden redesign for the mother-child house
Protected play. The Karolina mother and child house in Münchener Au offers pregnant or single mothers a home and support in everyday life. Ten mothers and their 13 children live in the house. The inner courtyard of the building is a place for the mothers to meet and socialize and provides space for the children to play. The Regine Sixt [...]
Renovation of a day-care center for disadvantaged children
In the northwest of Lithuania, many children live in disadvantaged families who face problems such as poverty, violence and unsafe street life. The children often grow up without parental supervision, spend a lot of time on the streets and miss out on school. In 2012, the municipality of Viekšniai founded a day care center with the purpose of providing children with a safe and secure environment [...]
Renovation of the outdoor play area for Talitha Kumi Kindergarten
Safe play. In 2012, Regine Sixt visited the educational center "Talitha Kumi" in Beit Jala near Bethlehem together with the then Federal President Christian Wulff. The facility, which is supported by the Berlin Missionary Society, includes a kindergarten, a school from first grade to university entrance qualification, a hotel management school, a boarding school for girls and a large guest house. In it [...]
Twin School Program
After a short pilot phase in 2014, the successful Bridging the Gap art program was launched to promote cultural understanding and exchange between Jewish and Arab pupils. The program took place at the Jewish Adam School and the Arab school Ein Rafa. Despite politically difficult phases, it quickly became clear that the two schools could grow together [...]
Equipment of a refugee shelter
Along with the integration initiatives of German business, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation is sponsoring unaccompanied refugee minors. As part of a pilot project, Burg Schwaneck was converted into accommodation and provided with infrastructure. The aim here, in particular, is to provide the young people with new hope.
A new playground for the Sterntaler Hof
Confidence & joie de vivre. When a child suffers from a life-threatening or life-limiting illness, this not only causes great consternation in the entire psychosocial environment. Above all, it means a massive and often long-term burden for the whole family. Sterntalerhof is a children's hospice that cares for families with seriously, chronically and terminally ill [...].
Renovation of leisure facilities for an inclusive school camp
Barefoot path & wheelchair swing. The Wartaweil school country home in Bavaria was the first completely barrier-free and disabled-friendly school country home in Germany. Other school country homes have since followed suit. "The Wartaweil home remains a showcase project. The special facilities, including bathrooms and beds, barrier-free access to the lake and a large park with many leisure activities, make Camp Wartaweil a unique [...]
Extension of an institution for handicapped people
Inclusive forms of teaching. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation TRÄNCHEN TROCKNEN supports the expansion of the after-school care center of the Evangelische Stiftung Michaelshof, which operates facilities for the care and support of people with mental and multiple disabilities. Michaelshof has also been running a special school with after-school care for pupils with a focus on mental development for 23 years. In the 2013/2014 school year, the [...]
Renovation of the Foster Care Service Suite at the Kennedy Donovan Center
Professional service. The Kennedy Donovan Center is one of Massachusetts' largest social service agencies. For almost 40 years, it has provided training, health care and day schools for children with developmental disabilities and Down syndrome, as well as family problems. Each year, it cares for 4,300 children between the ages of zero and three. Now the center needs to expand its services and has a 1,300m² [...]