Renovation work on the petting zoo at Irmengard Hof
The Irmengard-Hof on Lake Chiemsee in Bavaria is the Björn Schulz Foundation's aftercare and convalescent home for families with seriously and terminally ill children, adolescents and young adults. When a child is seriously ill or lives with a disability, this presents the whole family with many challenges and a tough test every day. A convalescent stay at [...]
Repairs and new purchases for inclusive day care centre in Rostock
In 2015, we supported the Evangelische Stiftung Michaelshof in Rostock for the first time and financed the equipment for the then new after-school care center. After a few years, the first repairs to the furniture were necessary in 2019. As the sustainability of our projects is very important to us, we were happy to take on this task and also financed a wheelchair-accessible stove and a [...]
New playground equipment for the Wartaweil inclusive school camp
The Wartaweil school hostel is an educational and meeting facility for pupils with and without disabilities. The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation has been supporting the school hostel on Lake Ammersee, south of Munich, since 2015. Every week, around 150 children and young people between the ages of 5 and 16 come here to play together and take a break from school [...].
Children’s home in Costa Rica
The name of this project says it all: "Hogar de vida" - home for life. The "Hogar de vida" residential life center in Costa Rica cares for abandoned and abused children aged 0 to 10 years. At the transitional facility, the young charges receive both medical care and emotional support to help them develop their mental and [...]
Renovation of a playground
In the small town of Paços de Ferreira in the northwest of Portugal, the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation has financed the renovation of a playground. The result is a colorful, child-friendly place to play in the fresh air in a previously gray space. Bordered by a brightly painted wooden fence, a colorful climbing frame with a slide, a swing and [...]
Establishment of a movement room for inclusive training
The non-profit UG TABALiNGO in Stolberg and Aachen offers sports and cultural leisure activities for about 320 children and young people. The focus is on people with disabilities, who often encounter exclusion and have great problems participating in normal sports and cultural activities. As the number of participants in TABALiNGO's services increased, so did the demand for additional rooms. For this reason, thanks to the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, a further movement room was set up, so that there is enough space for theatre, creative dance and sporting activities.
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. [...]
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 [...]
Redesign and renovation of a playground
Before its renovation, the playground was partly dilapidated and therefore no longer safe. In a joint project, Malteser International and the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation renovated it. Some of the play equipment was repaired and some replaced. As part of the redesign, the playground was also made barrier-free so that children in wheelchairs can now play together [...].