Support for children from socially disadvantaged families in toy libraries

Encouraging children in the play library

Afrika Tikkun is an "Early Childhood Development" program in several cities in South Africa. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supports the program by financing play libraries. The donation made it possible to purchase equipment for four play libraries. In addition to toys for toddlers and children, the play libraries were also equipped with craft materials, as well as materials for art lessons and games to borrow. [...]

New furniture for school center

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A gateway to life. The aim of school rehabilitation through LIFEGATE is to counter illiteracy and promote the social integration of illiterate people. Around 200 physically and mentally impaired children benefit from this program. Regine Sixt Children's Aid has equipped the school center with new furniture to make it easier for the children to [...]

New piano for the music school

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As support for the Fondazione Cantiere Internatioale d‘Arte di Montepulciano, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation enabled the purchase of a piano for the music school. As part of other projects in 2016 and 2017, the financing for music teachers and the procurement of woodwind instruments and orchestral equipment had already been co-funded.

Schools for syrian refugee children in Jordan

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Educational programs expanded. In cooperation with help alliance gGmbH, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation supports lessons for Syrian children and young people who have fled to Jordan and live around the city of Azraq. This gives them some stability in their lives again despite their precarious living situation and also keeps them connected to the education system.

Pilgrimage to Rome for handicapped children

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Sick and handicapped children and their families often have to overcome hurdles in everyday life, which families with healthy and non-handicapped children don't even think about. Through this second pilgrimage to Rome, during which devotions were celebrated in a Pope's Basilica, everyday life can be mastered with new energy and faith.

Donation of craft materials

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Living inclusion. The "Club Behinderter und ihre Freunde" in Mainz has been equipped with special painting and craft materials to support children with autism in daycare centers and schools. The club aims to promote the independence and autonomy of fellow citizens with disabilities and encourage them to participate in life within the community. To this end, the club provides integration support in daycare centers and [...]

Three mobile libraries

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Modern learning. With three mobile libraries complete with laptops, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation provides children in the Mekong River Delta with access to the Internet and books. This project was realized in cooperation with the Dariu Foundation, which empowers poor, low-income women and offers their disadvantaged children a future. With these libraries, which were built from used shipping containers [...]

Musical instruments for the orphanage

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Music & leisure. A former Franciscan monastery dating back to 1218 is now home to the orphanage "l'Istituto Antoniano", where nuns lovingly take care of the musical education of orphans from poor families. In addition to school care and music lessons in which the children are taught to play instruments, the organization of [...]

New musical instruments

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Orchestras in classrooms. In the heart of Tuscany, in Montepulciano, pupils go to school with their instruments from the age of seven and are taught by four professional music teachers from the Music Institute Henze alongside the normal school day. So far, 761 pupils are receiving these special lessons, which are gradually being incorporated into the regular curriculum and [...]

Music lesson for three classes

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Playing music. With the support of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, the "Takabanda" project will receive new instruments and money for teachers in order to teach pupils at all the schools in Montepulciano how to learn an instrument and thus culture alongside their normal lessons.

Thorough renovation of the Baumgartsbrunn school

Renovated classroom with pupils in Baumgartsbrunn

In 1972, the foundation stone was laid for today's Baumgartsbrunn Farm School in the Khomas region. Because children and teachers cannot get home in the evenings or at weekends, a school village was quickly established. Today, ten teachers teach up to 300 pupils in ten classes. For more than 3000 children, the gateway to a meaningful life has [...]

New football field for the Michaelshof

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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 [...]