The ZWERG NASE house's offer is unique in Germany

Holidays for the children and the occasion to relax and get new power for their relatives: families caring for their seriously ill children find relief, help and time for themselves by making use of the short term care offer of the ZWERG NASE house in Wiesbaden.

Beschützerinstinkte e.V. improves the relation between people and dogs

Dogs never stop loving. Dogs always have time. They give the feeling to be needed. Dogs comfort and understand. They break up with the vicious circle of loneliness and sadness. For a dog, it is not important if someone is poor or rich, sick or disabled.

The Felix Burda Foundation is devoted to the prevention of bowel cancer

In an early stage, bowel cancer does not cause discomforts, so that only a regular preventive care can protect from this disease from which only in Germany, 26,000 people die on every year. The Felix Burda Foundation is the most known charitable institution in this area.

A silent catastrophe: malnutrition in the Sahel

According to estimations, more than one million children in eight countries are threatened by severe malnutrition in the next months. Because of droughts, poor harvests, high food costs and extreme poverty, many families cannot feed themselves with enough food.

A place in the classroom for every child

Every child has a right on education. Though, in African countries south of the Sahara, every third child does not attend school. Many families are too poor to pay the school material for their children. Qualified teachers are missing and the AIDS epidemic tightens the situation-

For the children's right on water

Clear drinking water and hygienic life cirumstances are essential for survival and a premise for the healthy upgrowth of children. And it saves time and power for school, when children do not need to take hours to get clear water. 

ClearWater has the aim to provide water to native people

ClearWater has the aim to provide water to more than 2,000 native people and farmers living in 20 small villages in a contaminated Amazon area in Ecuador. The lack of clear water does not only lead to health threats.

A better future for children in Niger

Niger belongs to the five poorest countries in the world. Since 1991, the SOS Children's Villages are working in Niger, afther the ministry of social affairs provided a property on the brink of the capital city, Niamey, in 1990. In total, SOS in Niger supports more than 10,000 children and their relatives.

Get street children back to society

One of the biggest problems of the present society are children and youths growing up without any social ties: lost children. This is also shown by the high number of street children in Germany. A number of around 9,000 teenagers and young adults are estimated to live rough.

The same opportunities for all students

The main objective of the Kids Foundation is in the establishment of equal opportunities for students from poorer social backgrounds. These chances within education, specifically in vocational training and apprenticeships provide real prospects in the lives of the disadvantaged children and adolescents.