Der Kinderschutzbund Ortsverband Langenfeld e.V.

Der Kinderschutzbund Ortsverband Langenfeld e.V. is the Langenfeld local branch (Ortsverband) of Der Kinderschutzbund (DKSB), a German child protection organisation. It is registered as a voluntary association (eingetragener Verein, e.V.) and is based at Eichenfeldstr. 15-19 in Langenfeld, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. As a local Ortsverband it operates under the umbrella of the national DKSB while running its own programmes and services for children, young people and families in Langenfeld. The association states that it and its staff work for the realisation of the rights of children and young people anchored in the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), for a child-friendly society, and for the promotion of children's intellectual, psychological, social and physical development. Its stated aims also include protecting children from exclusion, discrimination and violence of any kind, social justice for all children, the participation of children in all decisions, plans and measures that affect them according to their stage of development, and the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Following that convention, the association defines a child as any person who has not yet completed their eighteenth year. To pursue these goals the association says it seeks to influence public opinion and the social climate through public relations work, to encourage politics and administration towards child-friendly decisions and to advise on the planning and implementation of such decisions, to demand responsible conduct towards children from business and the media, to provide preventive information and counselling, to establish and operate institutions and projects of child and youth welfare, to take or initiate measures to protect children at risk, to cooperate with other organisations pursuing comparable goals, to promote child-friendly initiatives, and to make funds available within its institutions and projects for the purpose of promoting the participation of children and young people. The concrete service portfolio described on its website includes Mama Mia, an open parent meeting point for parents with babies; counselling in child protection, covering the protection mandate in cases of endangerment of the child's welfare; PEKiP® courses, offering play and movement stimulation developed by the Prague physician and psychologist Dr. Jaroslav Koch; a clothing shop (Kleiderladen) offering good second-hand clothing and shoes for all sizes and ages; separation and divorce counselling offered in cooperation with the Langenfeld youth welfare office (Jugendamt); accompanied contact (Begleiteter Umgang) aimed at initiating, restoring or continuing visiting contact between a child and a parent; a babysitting service for parents who need to attend appointments or errands, along with information on babysitter courses; and OGS (offener Ganztag), supervised care for children after school, with information on which schools offer the open all-day programme. The branch also runs public campaigns and events, including activities around World Children's Day (Weltkindertag), a sponsored run (Spendenlauf) and special opening hours at its clothing shop. Its website lists news items such as a donation handover from the Langenfeld charity Hilfswerk and the Lady Lio initiative. The association is a non-profit, member-based organisation rather than a commercial company, and its activities are funded through membership, donations, project funds and its own social enterprise activities such as the Kleiderladen.

Der Kinderschutzbund Ortsverband Langenfeld e.V. is a local branch of Der Kinderschutzbund (DKSB), the German child protection association. It is organised as a registered voluntary association (eingetragener Verein, e.V.) and is recognised in public data as a voluntary association in Langenfeld, Germany. As an Ortsverband, it belongs to the nationwide DKSB structure, in which local branches carry out child protection and family support work in their own municipalities while subscribing to the aims of the national association. The association's self-description sets out the principles that have guided its work: it and its staff commit themselves to realising the rights of children and young people enshrined in the German Basic Law, to building a child-friendly society, and to fostering children's intellectual, psychological, social and physical development. It further commits to protecting children from exclusion, discrimination and violence of any kind, to social justice for all children, to involving children in decisions, plans and measures that affect them according to their stage of development, and to implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In line with that convention, the association treats every person under eighteen as a child. To achieve these aims, the branch states that it works to shape public opinion and the social climate through public relations, to encourage politics and administration to take child-friendly decisions and to advise them in planning and implementing such decisions, to call on business and the media to act responsibly towards children, to provide preventive information and counselling, to establish and run child and youth welfare institutions and projects, to take or initiate measures to protect children at risk, to cooperate with other organisations pursuing comparable goals, to promote child-friendly initiatives, and to make funds available within its institutions and projects so that children and young people can use them independently and on their own responsibility to promote participation. Over time the Langenfeld branch has built a broad local service portfolio reflecting these commitments. Its website describes Mama Mia, an open meeting point for parents with babies; child protection counselling covering the protection mandate when a child's welfare is endangered; PEKiP® courses based on play and movement stimulation developed by the Prague physician and psychologist Dr. Jaroslav Koch; a Kleiderladen selling good second-hand clothing and shoes for all sizes and ages; separation and divorce counselling run in cooperation with the Langenfeld Jugendamt (youth welfare office); accompanied contact (Begleiteter Umgang) intended to initiate, restore or continue visiting contact between a child and a parent; a babysitting service for parents who need to attend appointments or run errands, together with babysitter courses; and OGS (offener Ganztag), after-school care for children, with information about which schools offer the open all-day programme. The branch also engages in public campaigns and fundraising. Its website highlights activities around World Children's Day (Weltkindertag), a sponsored run (Spendenlauf) with the message that every lap helps, and special opening hours at the Kleiderladen. It reports news such as a donation handover from the Langenfeld Hilfswerk and the Lady Lio initiative. The association is a non-profit, member-based organisation rather than a commercial enterprise; its work is supported by membership, donations, project funding and income from its own social enterprise activities such as the clothing shop. The available evidence does not record a founding year, founders or a full list of officers, so those details remain open.

• Registered as a voluntary association (e.V.) in Langenfeld, Germany, as a local branch of Der Kinderschutzbund (DKSB).

• Established a broad local service portfolio including child protection counselling, PEKiP® courses, separation and divorce counselling, accompanied contact, babysitting and OGS after-school care.

• Operates a Kleiderladen selling second-hand clothing and shoes for all sizes and ages.

• Announced World Children's Day 2026 activities.

• Announced a sponsored run on 20 September 2026 under the motto 'every lap helps'.

• Announced special Kleiderladen opening hours on World Children's Day.

A local, non-profit child and youth welfare provider under the national Der Kinderschutzbund umbrella, focused on children's rights, prevention and family support in Langenfeld.

• Mama Mia open parent meeting point

  An open meeting point for parents with their babies.

• Child protection counselling

  Counselling covering the protection mandate in cases of endangerment of the child's welfare.

• PEKiP® courses

  Play and movement stimulation developed by the Prague physician and psychologist Dr. Jaroslav Koch.

• Kleiderladen

  Good second-hand clothing and shoes for all sizes and ages.

• Separation and divorce counselling

  Offered in cooperation with the Langenfeld youth welfare office (Jugendamt).

• Accompanied contact (Begleiteter Umgang)

  Aimed at initiating, restoring or continuing visiting contact between a child and a parent.

• Babysitting service

  Care for children when parents have appointments or errands, plus information on babysitter courses.

• OGS (offener Ganztag)

  After-school care for children, with information on which schools offer the open all-day programme.

1. 1Kinderschutzbund (DKSB) Ortsverband Langenfeld e.V. — official websitekinderschutzbund-langenfeld.de
2. 2Wofür wir stehen | Der Kinderschutzbundkinderschutzbund-langenfeld.de
3. 3Wikidata Q136229667wikidata.org