Establishment of a Stroke Center (CTB) at the Hauner Children's Clinic
Stroke research. In cooperation with the German Stroke Aid Foundation, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation is supporting the establishment of a specialized stroke unit at the Dr. V. Hauner Children's Hospital. Every year, between 300 and 500 children and adolescents in Germany suffer a stroke - a third of them during pregnancy or birth. For parents, this diagnosis is [...]
New Movement hall for inclusive school
Children are different and have different needs, talents and weaknesses. It is particularly important to encourage and support them individually. The Sophie Scholl School in Bad Nauheim does just that. The elementary school was founded around ten years ago on the private initiative of a few parents. Around 110 regular children now learn here together with 25 children with disabilities [...]
Education for refugee children
Girl power. Since the beginning of 2018, five-year-old Nasran has been attending preschool at the "Educational Center" in the Bekaa Valley near the capital Beirut. With the help of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation TRÄNCHEN TROCKNEN and ora Kinderhilfe international e.V., a preschool and a primary school for refugee children from Syria have been successfully opened in Lebanon. Especially for girls [...]
Renovation and equipment of a school
Education for refugee children. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, together with its project partner Habitat for Humanity Germany in Beirut, was able to renovate and re-equip a school for Syrian and Pakistani refugee children. The facility benefits 1,500 refugee children aged between 3 and 14, 50 of whom are children with special needs.
Construction of a children's care center
A safe haven. "Lerato" means love. It is also the name of the daycare center founded by Nancy Letswolo in 2014. "Lerato" looks after 45 children every day. In addition, the founder Nancy and her five employees look after 150 orphans after school hours. The daycare center is located in the South African township of Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria. Together with the Christian-humanitarian foundation [...]
Education for slum children
Opportunities through education. The "Happy Child Education Center" is a small school for 45 children in Kabiria, a slum area on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. With the support of various foundations, a two-storey building was erected there, which serves as a preschool, as well as an extra toilet block. In addition to the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, the following are involved in this educational and social project [...]
Construction of a school in Mkenda
Enabling learning. Mkenda is a small village in southern Tanzania, home to many people who fled Mozambique during the civil war, both Muslims and Christians. Thanks to some compassionate sisters, there is already a well-attended kindergarten. To enable these children to continue their education after kindergarten, the Reiner Meutsch Foundation [...]
Individual bereavement counseling for children
The loss of a loved one is a severe shock for children and young people. Relatives are usually paralyzed by their own grief, so children suppress and repress their feelings because they don't want to be a burden to anyone. At Lacrima, Johanniter's bereavement support service, children have been finding an individual way through their grief since 2016. They grieve together and holistically [...]
Renovation of the orphanage
Loving orphanage. Although there is a sad story behind every child at the Crèche Coeur Immaculé de Marie orphanage, the nuns always manage to catch the little orphans. The "Filles de Marie" order has been working in Mauritius for 150 years. With the help of 18 employees, four nuns of the order now look after 30 children aged between zero [...]
Construction of a kindergarten
The Devoir school is located in Agoè-Zongo, a poor suburb of Lomé, the capital of Togo. It was founded in 1997 as an elementary school and has been looked after and supported by the association "Mon Devoir e.V." from Freiburg since 2007. The expansion of the school to include a kindergarten had been on the association's wish list for some time, as the main goal is to [...]
A new garden for the Kochendörfer Mother-and-Child Home
The Kochendörfer mother and child home not only provides children, young people and adults with a safe temporary home, but also a place where they can develop. The atmosphere here is characterized by emotional warmth, positive appreciation, transparency and authenticity. To ensure that the residents can continue to feel at home here in the future, the interiors have been designed according to the Reggio principle "The [...]
Support for day care centre in Uganda
Children with physical or mental disabilities have a very difficult time in Uganda. And although efforts are now being made to promote inclusion, there is still a lack of support and resources for children with special needs and their families, especially their mothers. That's why some mothers from Uganda's capital Kampala got together, rented a house and [...]