PATRIZIA Children Foundation

Building a future together – since more than 20 years

We offer lasting support to children worldwide

We build schools

Because education opens doors throughout the world to a better future.

We build hospitals

Because we want to help children to be strong as they go through life in good health.

We build children’s homes

Because every child needs protection and safety as they grow up.

Everyone should be entitled to an education. It is a chance to enjoy a better future and we want children worldwide to make use of this entitlement. The PATRIZIA Children Foundation has been working towards this goal incessantly since 1999. Thanks to many years of expertise and a high level of personal commitment, we create places worldwide that give children and adolescents a sense of security, strength and perspective. By working with selected local partners, we focus on helping people to help themselves in the long term – through schools, support centres, children’s homes and hospitals, all of which are run locally. Every donated euro goes 100% towards our projects. It is totally easy to help! Long-term sponsors will find it particularly easy to benefit thanks to our Sponsor Circle.

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Projects

PATRIZIA Child Care Porayar, India

The PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA Secondary School Dhoksan, Nepal

Thanks to the PATRIZIA Children Foundation, a secondary school with grades 6-8, a library and a reading room were built in 2019 right next to the primary school in Dhoksan, Nepal, which was built in 2012. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, almost every second adult in the South Asian country is illiterate.

PATRIZIA Vocational Training Center Alego, Kenya

The PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA School Peramiho, Tanzania

In 2017, the PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA School Syangeni, Kenya

In 2017, the PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA School Yaoundé, Cameroon

The PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA School Harare, Zimbabwe

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.

PATRIZIA Child Therapy Augsburg, Germany

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.

PATRIZIA School Sondoveni, Peru

In 2014, the PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA Child Care Songea, Tanzania

For the 15th anniversary of the foundation in 2014, the PATRIZIA Children 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.

PATRIZIA Child Care Augsburg, Germany

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.

PATRIZIA Child Care Grabouw, South Africa

The PATRIZIA facility for children between the ages of two and 16 located in the South African Grabouw has existed since 2013. The PATRIZIA Child Care Grabouw aids neglected children, some of whom have suffered abuse, and provides a place of security and healing.

PATRIZIA Primary School Dhoksan, Nepal

In 2012 the PATRIZIA Primary School Dhoksan in the Nepalese mountain village of Dhoksan opened its doors to primary school grades 1 through 5. It withstood the severe earthquake of 2015 in the South Asian landlocked state almost unscathed and even served as emergency accommodations for several families for four months.

PATRIZIA School Buyamba, Uganda

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

PATRIZIA Vocational Training Center Ntarama, Rwanda

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.

PATRIZIA Aftercare Hamburg, Germany

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

PATRIZIA Aftercare Munich, Germany

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.

PATRIZIA Children Hospital Peramiho, Tanzania

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

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Insights

TRUST – our magazine

The second foundation magazine of the PATRIZIA Children Foundation is called “TRUST”. Download it now as PDF and read more!

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Travel report India

On the occasion of the opening of its 17th Children Center, Sabine Schillinger-Köhne, the foundation’s director got her own feeling for the PATRIZIA Child Care Porayar, and life in India in general. Here she talks about her impressions.

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Götzes as ambassadors

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we honoured to welcome the World Cup-winning footballer Mario Götze and his wife, model Ann-Kathrin Götze, to the PATRIZIA Children Foundation family.