Equipping a group therapy room to promote inclusion
Inclusion work brings together children with disabilities and/or in wheelchairs and their healthy siblings and their friends. Within the working group, siblings of children with disabilities and children with life-limiting illnesses learn to exchange ideas with other children in a similar situation. Siblings are often expected to function optimally in daily life for the benefit of their sick siblings. [...]
Expansion of the care center for Roma and Sinti children
Back in 2016, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supported Malteser Hilfsdienst in the construction of a school care center for Roma and Sinti children in Tarnabod. This facility, whose primary goal is the integration of Roma children in Hungary, looks after around 150 children of different ages. The main focus is on supplementary education and the teaching of rules of social behavior. In order to [...]
New therapy bed for the AtemReich children's home
The AtemReich children's home provides a loving home for children who are seriously ill or live with a disability. It is a place of security where, despite their difficult circumstances, the children are given the opportunity to lead as normal, child-friendly and dignified a life as possible. And their families can be with them at all times. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation [...]
Supported communication for children
Communication is a basic human need. Only those who are able to communicate their ideas, wishes and needs can actively participate in social life. Children who are unable to speak due to severe cerebral movement disorders, certain genetic syndromes and complex developmental disorders have to do without the most important means of expression - language. Speech therapy is used for language acquisition, the [...]
Purchase of a portable stair lift
"Krembo Wings" is a youth association for children and young people with and without special needs or disabilities in Israel. Every week, the volunteers organize joint activities to help teach the children about inclusion and integrity in a playful way and according to their needs. While the facility's premises are barrier-free [...]
Furnishing of a multifunctional room at the Kassel Hospital
The staff on the pediatric neurology ward at Kassel Hospital have long dreamed of a multifunctional room. We were happy to fulfill this wish and financed the conversion and new furnishings of the old "school room". There is now plenty of space for various activities with the young patients. Whether it's lessons in the "school for the sick" or [...]
Warming beds for children in the recovery room of a clinic
Children first! The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supports the work of the Shriners Hospital for Children in Tampa, Florida by purchasing warm children's beds for the recovery room and special children's stretchers. In the hospitals of the Shriners Foundation, children from the USA, North and South America and Africa are treated free of charge for severe burns or orthopaedic problems. Since 1922 [...]
Train set for the children hospital in Schwabing
Big locomotive drivers. The Munich Schwabing Children's Hospital is building a new clinic on its own premises. Ward 24d therefore had to be temporarily relocated so that the children had more space to play, even during the transition months, until the new building was completed. And so the desire for more wooden train sets was huge. With the "Drying little tears" initiative by Regine Sixt [...]
Equipping the maternity ward of the Malteser International Hospital Umuzike
Professional care. With the joint support of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation and Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V., the maternity ward and the children's department at Malteser International Hospital Umuzike have been refurbished. In addition to various purchases such as cribs, new floor coverings and missing doors were purchased, leaking windows were replaced and additional lighting was installed.
The new performance space in the Alder Hey Children's Hospital
Hospital stays are strenuous and exhausting. Children in particular are worried and scared when they have to wait for their treatment in a sterile hospital atmosphere. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supported the construction of a performance space at the entrance hall of the Children's Hospital Alder Hey in Liverpool, UK. This way, children can bridge waiting times together in a pleasant atmosphere.
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 [...]