Integrated energy storage system for education room
Malteser Hilfsdienst e.V. runs the "Svitlytsia" education and development center in Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine, which provides support and rehabilitation for children and young people directly affected by the war. These include children of soldiers, internally displaced persons, orphans and other socially disadvantaged children. Since the beginning of 2023, more than 1,000 children have visited the facility to [...]
New toys for a refugee shelter
Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. in the Dresden regional association runs several refugee shelters, including a family shelter with currently 33 children from different nations. Here, the Johanniter provide low-threshold social work and act as an important link to moving into the city's guaranteed housing. The families have hardly anything with them when they arrive and, due to limited capacities in [...]
Medical devices for the treatment of children
At the beginning of July 2024, the Okhmatdyt State Children's Hospital in Kyiv was partially destroyed by bombing. A catastrophe for the children receiving inpatient treatment there at the time and their families. Many seriously ill children had to be evacuated at short notice. 37 of these seriously ill children were accommodated in the municipal Kyiv Children's Hospital No. 1. The hospital was able to [...]
Charging station for children's hospital
In the ongoing war in the Ukarine region, the city of Kharkiv in the north-east has been particularly hard hit. The attacks often lead to power cuts, which also affect the hospitals. Charging stations were therefore urgently needed for the children's hospital to ensure the continuous operation of medical equipment during these power cuts. The new charging stations for the [...]
Facilities of accommodation for Ukrainian children
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 28 Ukrainian women and their 39 children aged between 1.5 and 15 have found refuge in the former St. Gabriel convent in Berlin, which is currently leased and managed by the "Kindergarten der Schele-Schule gemeinnützige GmbH". Thanks to the support of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, they have been given [...]
Expansion of basement rooms into classrooms in Ukraine
The Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, in cooperation with the Pullach im Isartal e.V. partnership association, has taken a significant step towards improving educational opportunities in Ukraine. To this end, basement rooms in the communities of Voloshynivka and Baryshivka have been successfully converted into classrooms to give children access to face-to-face lessons despite the tense situation, even while air-raid alarms are sounding. This can [...]
Learning and play spaces for children in refugee shelters
When the war in Ukraine began, women in particular fled with their children and were taken into emergency shelters across Germany. These emergency shelters were set up very quickly and were often rudimentary in terms of their facilities, especially in terms of child-friendly learning and activities. For school-age children, it was important to quickly create a learning environment [...]
Equipping child-friendly rooms in refugee accommodation
With the support of the Regine Sixt Children's Aid Foundation, rooms have been set up in two municipal refugee shelters in Munich specifically for the care of Ukrainian families. These rooms are used both for childcare and as places to play, do handicrafts and do homework. The two rooms were renovated with great commitment and equipped with new furniture. Since [...]
Help from Latvia for Ukraine
SIXT Latvia has supported people living there in Ukraine through donations, urgently needed equipment and generators. The deliveries were extremely important, especially in the winter months, and the items of clothing and medicine collected were a great support. In addition, SIXT Latvia supported Ukrainian families with evacuation and accommodation in the Baltic states.
New crib car for excursions
The Alexander Moksel Kindergarten of the Israeli religious community in the Jewish Community Center has taken in children who have fled from Ukraine for daycare. In order to provide them with a balanced program with plenty of distractions, another crèche trolley was purchased. Now all the children can take part in the excursions together. This strengthens social structures and integrates the Ukrainian children into everyday kindergarten life [...]
Reconstruction of a playground
In late September 2022, Hurricane Ian left a trail of devastation along the west coast of Florida and hit Collier County, Florida hard. Losses included a treasured playground and important materials for YMCA after-school childcare programs. Through the Naples Children Education Foundation (NCEF), a partnership was formed between SIXT USA and the YMCA of Collier County [...]
New Snoezelen rooms for Ukrainian children in Poland
As part of the celebrations to mark the 20th anniversary of SIXT Poland, donations were collected to finance snozelen rooms in the pediatric oncology departments of the Bydgoszcz and Poznan clinics for Ukrainian children. These children are traumatized by their cancer, but also by PTSD syndromes, stress and cultural and linguistic differences. Snoezel rooms are used for stress reduction, relaxation and dealing with trauma [...].