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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.