New football field for the Michaelshof
Kick & let off steam. Michaelshof in Rostock is an inclusive school and daycare center where children with mental and physical disabilities learn together with pupils without disabilities. As no additional state or federal funding is available for inclusive, i.e. care-intensive schools and facilities, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation has decided to support this project. The [...]
Integration and Inclusion of Romani and Sinti children
Fit for life. With "Drying little tears", the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation enabled the rapid completion of the EU center for Roma and Sinti children in Pécs, Hungary. On October 14, 2016, after only a few months of construction, a joint project of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation and the Order of Malta was handed over to young and old. Representatives of the Order of Malta from Hungary [...]
Support for Bungamati Family House for Earthquake Orphans
In April and May 2015, several large earthquakes occurred in Kathmandu and its surrounding valleys. More than 8,000 people died and over 22,000 were injured in the landslides and collapsed homes. It was the biggest disaster in the history of Nepal. In cooperation with Nepal's honorary consul general, Ann-Katrin Bauknecht, and the Nepalese relief organization MAITI-Nepal, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supported a Family House project in Bungamati, about eight kilometres from Kathmandu. It provides a home and education for orphans in the area.
Support Clean Winners
Integration with sport. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation is financing the new "Clean Winners" location in Rostock. Here, children and young people receive sports coaching. Clean Winners e.V. was founded in 1997 by former tennis pro Carl-Uwe Steeb. The aim is to offer socially disadvantaged children in Germany a perspective for a better life. At 17 locations in [...]
Hospice service "KiJu" in Ortenau
Sparkling help. Mauritia Mack from Europa-Park, together with the glass and jewelry manufacturer Leonardo and the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, has supported the Ortenau children's and youth hospice service "KiJu" in Offenburg with the jewelry from the 2014 summer collection. At "KiJu", seriously ill children, young people and their families are accompanied through a difficult time. The help is also available to children and young people [...]
Medical care in Kenya
Healthcare is still very rudimentary in many areas of Kenya. There is often a lack of medication and the nearest hospital is several hundred kilometers away. In the Nariokotome region in the north of the country, there are also difficult weather conditions with long dry spells followed by heavy rainfall, which make it difficult for people to [...]
Maltese pilgrimage to Rome
Disabled young people and their companions, a total of 30 people, traveled to Rome from October 15 to 20, 2016. There you took part in the Year of Mercy as part of a Maltese pilgrimage.
Renovation of day-care center "Dinoko"
No sweating, no shivering. A better future has begun for the little ones at the "Dinoko" daycare center in the densely populated township of Zandspruit, Johannesburg. With the support of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the new daycare center for 85 children took place at the end of July 2016. Instead of corrugated iron huts, where it was unbearably hot in the summer months and [...]
Construction of rooms for an inclusive reception establishment
Collective integration. The Association Pour l'Innovation en Matière d'Intégration (APIMI) in France aims to promote the growing together of all children and the non-exclusion of children with disabilities - through "collective integration". APIMI directs the socio-educational and civic interest of children without disabilities and their families towards the care of children with disabilities and their families. [...]
New equipment for the Ronald McDonald house in Grosshadern
A colorful feel-good factor. The Ronald McDonald House was opened as a temporary home for families whose seriously ill children are being treated at Großhadern Hospital. It accommodates around 200 families every year. In 14 apartments, the house offers families enough space to be close to their children. For the 20th anniversary, the furnishings for the living room were donated by Regine [...]
Renovation of the orphanage
Protection from wind and weather. In the summer of 2014, the renovation of the Compassionate Orphanage Home in Lagos began with the financial support of "Tränchen Trocknen". When the team from Sixt Nigeria and Germany representative Sebastian Szautner arrived at the Compassionate Orphanage Home about a year later, all the children were dressed up. They prayed and asked for the [...]
Emergency Aid in Nepal
Start school. Immediately after the earthquake in Kathmandu in 2015, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, together with Malteser International, organized blankets and tents for those affected in the disaster region. The effects of the earthquake of the century hit the town of Bungamati particularly hard. The foundation therefore organized sustainable care there. In cooperation with the Honorary Consul General of [...]