Kinderzukunft

Stiftung Kinderzukunft (Foundation for Children's Future) is a German charitable foundation based in Gründau, Hesse, that has worked since 1988 to help children in need. It grew out of the Rudolf-Walther-Stiftung, established by the founder of the furniture company Möbel Walther, and today operates as an independent foundation under German civil law (Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts). Its mission is to give children not merely survival but a life with dignity, protection, and opportunity. The foundation runs its own children's villages, schools, and vocational training facilities in Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania. In these facilities, children and young people receive care, comprehensive schooling, and subsequent vocational training, with the goal of enabling an independent and dignified future and preventing lifelong dependence on emergency aid. In addition, Kinderzukunft carries out co-financed nutrition, health, and education projects that reach children in Central America and Eastern Europe as well as in Africa and Asia. Since 1998 the foundation has organized the nationwide German campaign "Weihnachtspäckchen für Kinder in Not" (Christmas parcels for children in need). Thousands of kindergartens, schools, companies, and private individuals take part each year; in 2024 around 37,000 parcels were collected and, with the help of volunteers, delivered to needy children in the slums of Romania, Ukraine, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work is financed by donations. Supporters can take on sponsorships for children in the children's villages. Because administrative costs are covered by income from the foundation's assets and earmarked contributions, donations go directly and without deductions to the children. Kinderzukunft has held the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) without interruption for more than 30 years, and is a member of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft and of VENRO, the association of development policy and humanitarian aid organizations. The foundation is supported by a range of public ambassadors, including former German national football goalkeeper Toni Schumacher, former national team player and sports director Rudi Völler, actress Jessica Schwarz, former federal ministers Hans Eichel and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, and former EU Special Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling. In 2008 the state of Hesse named it "Foundation of the Month" and in 2009 "Foundation of the Year."

Stiftung Kinderzukunft traces its origins to the Rudolf-Walther-Stiftung, established by the founder of the furniture company Möbel Walther in Gründau, Germany. From this corporate foundation, the children's aid organization emerged and has been helping children in need since 1988. It is now an independent foundation under German civil law (Stiftung bürgerlichen Rechts) headquartered in Gründau. Over the decades, the foundation built and maintained its own children's villages, schools, and vocational training facilities in Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Romania. These facilities provide care, schooling, and vocational training to street children and orphans, aiming to give them a self-determined and dignified future and to prevent lifelong dependence on emergency aid. In addition to these own facilities, Kinderzukunft carries out co-financed nutrition, health, and education projects that extend its reach to children in Central America and Eastern Europe as well as in Africa and Asia. A major recurring initiative is the nationwide German campaign "Weihnachtspäckchen für Kinder in Not" (Christmas parcels for children in need), organized since 1998. Each year, thousands of kindergartens, schools, companies, and private individuals participate. In 2024, around 37,000 parcels were collected and delivered with the help of volunteers to needy children in the slums of Romania, Ukraine, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The foundation's work is financed by donations, and it offers child sponsorships for children in its children's villages. Administrative costs are covered by income from the foundation's assets and earmarked contributions, so that donations reach the children directly and without deductions. Kinderzukunft has held the donation seal of the German Central Institute for Social Issues (DZI) for more than 30 years without interruption, and is a member of the Initiative Transparente Zivilgesellschaft and of VENRO (the association of development policy and humanitarian aid organizations). In 2008, the state of Hesse recognized the foundation as "Foundation of the Month," and in 2009 as "Foundation of the Year." The foundation is supported by numerous public ambassadors from politics, sports, media, and entertainment, including former German national football goalkeeper Toni Schumacher, former national team player and sports director Rudi Völler, actress Jessica Schwarz, former federal ministers Hans Eichel and Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, and former EU Special Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling.

• 2024

  Around 37,000 Christmas parcels collected and delivered to children in Romania, Ukraine, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• 2009

  Recognized by the state of Hesse as "Foundation of the Year."

• 2008

  Recognized by the state of Hesse as "Foundation of the Month."

• 1998

  Nationwide German campaign "Weihnachtspäckchen für Kinder in Not" is organized for the first time.

• 1988

  Foundation begins helping children in need, emerging from the Rudolf-Walther-Stiftung.

A donation-financed German children's aid foundation that runs its own children's villages, schools, and vocational training facilities and channels donations directly to children without deductions.

• Children's villages (Guatemala, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania)

• Schools and vocational training facilities

• Nutrition, health, and education projects

• Child sponsorships

• Weihnachtspäckchen für Kinder in Not (Christmas parcel campaign)

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