Education is everyone’s right.
Every morning when Nima starts her 45-minute walk through the mountains of Nepal to PATRIZIA School Dhoksan, there’s a smile on her face. Nima knows that for her and her family, this is a golden opportunity to break out of the vicious circle of poverty.
Education, health care and welfare are the keys to a better life, the basis of long-term human development – not only from a political standpoint, but also in social, cultural and economic terms. Education adds value for generations. Nima is just one of a very small number of children who receive the chance to enjoy an education.
Worldwide, more than 258 million children are unable to attend school. Our goal at the PATRIZIA Foundation is to make it possible for children and young adults to receive education, health care and welfare. All over the world. You can also help us achieve this.
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Of every donated euro goes into our projects. This is because all administrative costs are paid for by PATRIZIA SE. It is your choice which project your donations are used for. You can find an overview of all projects here.
All projects and partnerships are set up to run for at least 25 years to ensure every invested euro has a lasting impact.
Eye-level
We conduct all our projects and partnerships on an eye-level basis, focusing on respect and effective cooperation.
Hearts4Change: Education that comes from the heart
With Hearts4Change, we have created an extraordinary campaign with the help of which we want to open up access to education, health care and welfare for a total of one million children by 2030. Having already reached our first milestone of over 750,000 children, the proceeds from the campaign will go towards realising this ambitious vision.
Through your support of Hearts4Change, you are a true “person of the heart” for us. Your donation, regardless of the amount, symbolises your commitment to the future of children and our special initiative.
Ambassadors of Hearts4Change

Mario Götze
Athlete and business angel

Eva Weber
Mayor of Augsburg

Sandra Peetz-Rauch
Chairwoman of the Board of Stadtsparkasse Augsburg

Halil Altintop
Former sporting director FC Bayern Campus
Our projects
PATRIZIA Vocational Training Center Ntarama, Rwanda
Founded in 2008, the PATRIZIA Vocational Training Centre Ntarama in Rwanda offers practical training for young people in a region affected by the genocide. The aim is to qualify trainees in professions such as electrical engineering, welding and tailoring and to open up new opportunities for them through sustainable technologies.
PATRIZIA School Buyamba, Uganda
PATRIZIA School Buyamba in Uganda offers children aged five to fourteen a high-quality primary school education. In one of the poorest regions, with limited access to water and electricity, the school provides education as well as meals and accommodation for children from remote areas to improve their future.
PATRIZIA School Sondoveni, Peru
The PATRIZIA Foundation built a school in Sondoveni, Peru, to provide access to education in a remote region characterised by a lack of educational facilities and discrimination. The aim is to offer children the chance of a better future and a way out of poverty.
PATRIZIA School Syangeni, Kenya
PATRIZIA School Syangeni was built in 2017 in one of the poorest regions of Kenya to give children in the drought-affected region access to education. The aim is to achieve a sustainable improvement in living conditions through education and infrastructure measures.
PATRIZIA Child Care Porayar, India
PATRIZIA Child Care Porayar in southern India provides accommodation for disadvantaged girls aged between 5 and 17. Without exception, the children and young women come from poor and difficult family backgrounds. Many of them are half or full orphans and should be given the chance of a self-determined, better future.
PATRIZIA School Dhoksan, Nepal
In 2012, the PATRIZIA School Dhoksan opened in the Nepalese mountain village of Dhoksan for primary school classes 1 to 5. It survived the severe earthquake in 2015 in the landlocked South Asian country almost unscathed and even served as emergency accommodation for some families for four months. In 2019, the primary school was extended so that children can now attend school up to the eighth grade.
PATRIZIA Vocational Training Center Alego, Kenya
The PATRIZIA Foundation’s training centre in Alego, Kenya, which opened in 2018, offers disadvantaged children and young people a wide range of educational opportunities. The centre has a special significance for the Obama family.
PATRIZIA School Peramiho, Tanzania
PATRIZIA School Peramiho offers girls in Tanzania better educational opportunities and a safe place to live. The school promotes science lessons and strengthens the community. With dormitories for schoolgirls from remote regions, access to education is made easier for them – an important step towards a self-determined future.
PATRIZIA School Yaoundé, Cameroon
In 2016, the PATRIZIA Foundation built the PATRIZIA School Yaoundé together with the Pallottines in Yaoundé. The secondary school is connected to a kindergarten, a primary school and the Pallottine parish and gives many children access to further education – a decisive step for their future.
PATRIZIA School Harare, Zimbabwe
PATRIZIA School Harare offers children in the Hopley settlement, which has no infrastructure, access to education and creates jobs for the community. Thanks to local and international partners, the school is growing steadily. Girls in particular are benefiting from new opportunities for a self-determined future.
PATRIZIA Child Therapy Augsburg, Germany
The Ziegelhof therapy centre was established in the Stadtbergen district of Augsburg in 2015. Hundreds of children and young people receive curative or therapeutic treatment here every year and are cared for together with their families. In addition to counselling, occupational and art therapies, the centre also focuses on working with animals.
PATRIZIA Child Care Songea, Tanzania
PATRIZIA Child Care Songea offers orphaned children in Tanzania a safe home and access to education. The centre is run by the Missionary Benedictine Sisters and provides a stable future for the children through close links with the kindergarten and pre-school.
PATRIZIA Primary School Songea, Tanzania
At PATRIZIA Primary School Songea, access to high-quality education is promoted together with the Missionary Benedictine Sisters. The modern primary school offers children a safe and inspiring learning environment with contemporary pedagogy – and therefore better prospects for the future.
PATRIZIA Child Care Augsburg, Germany
PATRIZIA Child Care Augsburg is a bilingual daycare centre where children learn German and English through play. With individualised support and loving care, it creates equal opportunities and makes it easier for parents to return to work.
PATRIZIA Child Care Western Cape, South Africa
PATRIZIA Child Care Western Cape in South Africa emerged from the PATRIZIA Child Care Grabouw and a partnership with the Thembalitsha Foundation. The ‘Village of Hope’ offered children and young people a place of security and healing. Today, the partner continues the project in the Educare Centres and promotes early childhood education there.
PATRIZIA Aftercare Hamburg, Germany
PATRIZIA Aftercare Hamburg is an aftercare centre for seriously and chronically ill children that was built in 2008. It was built by the PATRIZIA Foundation together with the ‘Stiftung Familienorientierte Nachsorge Hamburg SeeYou’. It relieves the burden on the directly neighbouring Wilhelmstift Catholic Children’s Hospital.
PATRIZIA Aftercare Munich, Germany
Built in 2006, the aftercare centre based on the ‘Colourful Circle Foundation’ model is dedicated to seriously and chronically ill children at the Dritter Orden Hospital in Munich. The aim of PATRIZIA Aftercare Munich is to close the gap between medical help and care for children within the family.
MiSST & PATRIZIA Foundation
The PATRIZIA Foundation supports MiSST in the UK with classical instruments, group lessons and performance opportunities for disadvantaged children. By funding instruments in schools, self-confidence, communication skills, creativity and self-expression are encouraged.
PATRIZIA Children Hospital Peramiho, Tanzania
The Children Hospital Peramiho is the PATRIZIA Foundation’s first project: together with the local Benedictine order, the foundation opened a children’s hospital in Peramiho, in south-west Tanzania, in 2002.
PATRIZIA Child Care Govindpur, India
Together with the Gossner Church, the PATRIZIA Foundation is supporting the construction of an educational reform kindergarten in Govindpur, India, which offers children a creative and playful learning environment. The new concept represents a contrast to the traditional, disciplined pre-school classes in India.
PATRIZIA Child Care Mymensingh, Bangladesh
In Mymensingh, Bangladesh, many children live in poverty and without access to education. Together with MATI Bangladesh, the PATRIZIA Foundation has launched the PATRIZIA Child Care Mymensingh project, which provides early childhood education and care for children aged 1.5 to 6 years.
PATRIZIA School Muniguda, India
In the Odisha region, one of the poorest states in India, the PATRIZIA School Muniguda project is being launched to provide disadvantaged children and young people, especially girls, with high-quality education. The aim is to increase the literacy rate and prevent early marriages.
PATRIZIA Vocational Training Centre Bumthang, Bhutan
The PATRIZIA Vocational Training Centre is being built in rural Bumthang, a structurally weak region of Bhutan, which will offer disadvantaged young people – especially girls – access to vocational training. The aim is to counteract a lack of prospects and enable self-determined life paths.
PATRIZIA School Ndanda, Tanzania
PATRIZIA School Ndanda in Tanzania is improving educational opportunities for hundreds of children. New classrooms, sanitary facilities and school buses give children from remote regions access to high-quality education. Together with the Benedictine Abbey of Ndanda, the project creates a safe and nurturing learning environment.
PATRIZIA School Bafia, Cameroon
The PATRIZIA School Bafia is being built as a model school for over 900 children and is intended to strengthen educational opportunities and inclusion. Currently under construction, it will offer barrier-free facilities, digital learning opportunities and a sustainable water and electricity supply – a flagship project for the entire region.
PATRIZIA Child Care Parakou, Benin
PATRIZIA Child Care Parakou is a protection and education centre for vulnerable children in northern Benin. Together with partners, a safe place was built that promotes education and offers affected children refuge. The aim is to give the children cared for a perspective for the future.
PATRIZIA School of Hope Cape Town, South Africa
The PATRIZIA School of Hope in Cape Town enables disadvantaged young people to complete their schooling. In addition to education, it offers social support, small classes and daily meals. Since 2023, the ‘Ready for the Future’ project has been improving the digital facilities – with teacher training, a stable power supply and fast internet.
Ready for the future
To ensure children even have access to education, health care and welfare in times of crisis, an innovative digitalisation project is currently being implemented. This is where our project currently stands in three pilot countries: Cameroon, Nepal and Rwanda. In all three countries we are implementing our ‘ready for the future’ concept. Later on down the line the concept will be used in as many places as possible at PATRIZIA Foundation KinderHaus facilities.
With your support, we can implement all kinds of similar projects and ensure that even more children and young people receive education, health care and welfare– at all times.
Your company for education worldwide
Together with small and large partners from the business world, we implement exciting educational projects around the world and give local people the basis for a self-determined life. Let’s work together to create educational infrastructures where they are needed most.
With its Kinderhaus facilities, the PATRIZIA Foundation offers companies various opportunities to implement comprehensive ESG strategies. We would be happy to work with you to find a project that suits your company.

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Successful partnerships with local organisations
For 25 years, the PATRIZIA Foundation has been setting up educational infrastructure where it is needed most. The key expertise of the foundation lies in planning and building schools, shelters and medical facilities. All projects are organised and run in close cooperation with local partners. Every PATRIZIA KinderHaus facility is operated by our partners for at least 25 years. This is because we want to make a difference in the long term and foster the development of independent communities.
This also ensures your donation has an impact today and in the future.

















Stories of change
The PATRIZIA Foundation has been able to tell over 750.00 tales of happy children and young people since it was set up in 1999 – stories about children who received an education, health care and welfare thanks to the facilities supported by the foundation, also opening the doors of opportunity to a life of self-determination.
You can also help the PATRIZIA Foundation write more stories of change!
You too can write stories of change together with the PATRIZIA Foundation!
Insights
Hearts4Change – education from heart
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Benefit concert with the Domspatzen
On 16 December 2023, we cordially invite you to the Frauenfriedenskirche in Frankfurt am Main for a musical evening with the Regensburger Domspatzen. Experience an unforgettable benefit concert with the world-famous boys’ choir!
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Successful Charity run for Cameroon
The PATRIZIA Foundation’s third Remote Run raised through 148 participants
2737 euros for the construction of a playground for the PATRIZIA School Youndé. A great success for building a new playground. The children can now also learn through play.
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When the foundation told us about the PATRIZIA school in Sondoveni, we knew immediately that we wanted this to become our first CSR project and give the access to education for children worldwird
Hendrik von Paepcke
CEO, apoproject
Raising funds for the PATRIZIA Foundation is the cherry on the cake. It’s what motivated me to take part in the Lake District Challenge.
When this war broke out, it was clear to me that #patriziaride 2022 must raise money to alleviate the suffering of the Ukrainian people. Especially the children need our support now.
Transparency at the PATRIZIA Foundation



