In 2008 the PATIZIA Children Foundation, in cooperation with the Gruenhelme e.V., built a rooming house for young people at the “Nelson Mandela Education Center for Apprentices (NMEC)”. The new dormitory is directly adjacent the vocational school for 800 pupils in Ntarama, south of Rwanda’s capital Kigali.

The completely inadequate temporary school of the St. Francis primary school in poor Buyamba was in desperate need of renovation when the PATRIZIA Foundation and Gruenhelme e.V. tackled the project: over the course of several years old parts were renovated and new ones added.

In 2014, the PATRIZIA Foundation along with its Peruvian project partner Creciendo and students from the University of Stuttgart established a secondary school in Sondoveni in the Peruvian province of Satipo. Sondoveni is a village with around 80 families. It lies in the middle of the rainforest of the South American state, about four hours away from the capital Lima.

In 2017, the PATRIZIA Foundation, together with Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., built a new primary school in Syangeni, Kenya. Additionally, an administration building and a sanitary building were constructed. A new water tank ensures a sufficient supply of drinking water for the school.

The PATRIZIA Foundation has opened a building in southern India to provide much needed accommodation for girls in need. The new building at the PATRIZIA Child Care in Porayar houses 240 girls aged between five and 17. They all come from poor and difficult family backgrounds. Many are half or full orphans.

In 2012, the PATRIZIA School Dhoksan in the Nepalese mountain village of Dhoksan opened for primary school classes 1 to 5. It survived the severe earthquake in the South Asian landlocked state in 2015 almost unscathed and even served as emergency accommodation for some families for four months. In 2019 the primary school was expanded so that children can now attend school up to grade eight.

The PATRIZIA Foundation Training Center opened in 2018 in Alego, Kenya, offers disadvantaged children and adolescents a wide range of educational opportunities. This place has a special meaning for the Obama family.

In 2017, the PATRIZIA Foundation built a new building with accommodations next to the Girls Secondary School of the Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing. The girls’ school is the first in the region and is located in the Tanzanian city of Peramiho.

The PATRIZIA Foundation built the PATRIZIA School Yaoundé in 2016 together with the Pallottines as their partner organisation in Yaoundé. The city is the capital of the Central African country of Cameroon and with around 2.5 million inhabitants the largest city in the country. The secondary school with 21 classrooms is directly connected to a kindergarten, a primary school and the parish of the Pallottines.

The PATRIZIA School Harare in Zimbabwe’s capital of the same name is a good example of how national and international cooperation with select partners works: In 2016, the Rising Star school in the Hopley settlement was opened. After extensions in 2017 and 2018, the school already consists of seven buildings. The third construction began in May 2019.

In 2015, the Ziegelhof therapy centre was established in the Stadtbergen district of Augsburg. Here, children and adolescents are treated curatively or therapeutically and cared for together with their families. In addition to conversational, ergotherapy and art therapies, the focus is on working with animals.

For the 15th anniversary of the foundation in 2014, the PATRIZIA Foundation has opened its second facility in East African Tanzania, the children’s home PATRIZIA Child Care Songea. The first is the children’s hospital  PATRIZIA Children Hospital in Peramiho.

The PATRIZIA Child Care Augsburg was established in Augsburg in 2013 and serves as a bilingual day care centre. “Hallo and hello”: German and English are spoken here.

The three Educare Centres belonging to the PATRIZIA Child Care Western Cape are operated by our local partner Thembalitsha Foundation. They offer a high-quality early childhood education to more than 140 children.

PATRIZIA Aftercare Hamburg is an aftercare centre for severely and chronically ill children built in 2008. The PATRIZIA Foundation erected it together with the “Stiftung Familienorientierte Nachsorge Hamburg SeeYou”. It relieves the burden on the directly adjacent Catholic Children’s Hospital Wilhelmstift.

The aftercare centre built at the Third Order Hospital in Munich in 2006 based on the model of the “Stiftung bunter Kreis” is dedicated to seriously and chronically ill children. The aim of PATRIZIA Aftercare Munich is to close the gap between medical help, and the care for children within the family.

The Children Hospital Peramiho is the first project of the PATRZIA Foundation: Together with the local Benedictine order, the foundation opened a children’s hospital in Peramiho, in southwestern Tanzania, in 2002.