CFI International Children's Aid
| CFI International Children's Aid Germany | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Profit company |
| founding | 2003 |
| Seat | Mainz-Kostheim ( ⊙ ) |
| main emphasis | Financial support for ten children's villages worldwide and their affiliated projects |
| Managing directors | Sonja Neuhaus |
| owner | Sonja Neuhaus, Kent Greve |
| sales | 710,422 euros (2018) |
| Employees | 3 (2018) |
| Website | www.cfi-kinderhilfe.de |
CFI Internationale Kinderhilfe Deutschland gGmbH is a non-profit aid organization that has existed in Germany since 2003 and is based in Mainz-Kostheim . CFI (Children's Fund International) supports children's villages in different countries where orphans, abandoned or abused children, victims of civil war and street children can find a new home and escape the cycle of poverty . CFI Internationale Kinderhilfe Deutschland is a non-governmental children's aid organization that is recognized in Germany as non-profit and benevolent.
The gGmbH is a signatory of the Transparent Civil Society Initiative .
history
In 1976 a powerful earthquake devastated large parts of Guatemala City in Central America. In the process, many children lost their parents, some even all of their relatives and were left without a home. Volunteers from the USA then used donations to build the first children's village “Los Pinos”, which quickly became a new home for many of these children.
From this private commitment the organization "International Children's Care" (ICC) was founded in the USA in 1978. The very successful work led to more and more children's villages being founded. This was made possible because more and more people around the world are getting involved with these children.
Since 2003 the "CFI Internationale Kinderhilfe Deutschland" has been supporting these children's villages together with its international partners. Together with its partner organizations, the CFI operates its own children's villages in crisis, developing and emerging countries or supports them with financial aid and donations in kind.
International cooperation has many advantages for the institutions, the sponsors and the partner organizations. These include u. a .:
- Project planning and implementation is easier and more effective, as all organizations plan according to uniform standards and with one system. This enables more efficient help.
- Larger projects and investments can be implemented more quickly internationally through joint measures.
- Regular professional and content-related exchange, common standards and uniform auditing ensure high-quality work and the correct use of funds.
In 2019, CFI Kinderhilfe moved its headquarters from Darmstadt to Mainz-Kostheim .
Projects
The children's villages consist of several houses in which about 10 to 12 children live in one house with a couple of foster parents. The purpose of the Children's Villages is to give the children a home and a loving family so that they have a chance to escape the cycle of poverty. The orphans also receive health care, as many children are admitted with parasitic diseases, malnutrition or malnutrition. In an intact family they get to know a social environment by experiencing for themselves that they are part of this social structure. You will receive help in coping with various trauma from fear of abandonment to physical violence and abuse . The children receive a well-founded school education as well as vocational training that enables them to break out of the cycle of poverty and to start their own family and to make a long-term contribution to the development of your country. The children are taken in regardless of their origin or religious affiliation and integrated into a family. You get the social competence to appreciate the value of a family and thus to carry a positive example into your society.
Sponsorship
A child sponsorship or project sponsorship is the most direct way to help. Both sponsorships always support the children's village and not the individual child. By adopting a sponsorship , a sponsor accompanies the development of his sponsored child through progress reports. Correspondence with their sponsor shows the children that they are important and valued. The sponsorship contribution benefits the entire children's village, there is no single child support, so the sponsored child does not experience any disadvantages if a sponsorship expires, and there is no envy or disadvantage. The children who are sponsored by children live exclusively in the children's villages supported by CFI. The form of sponsorship chosen by CFI does not mean that individual families can live from the sponsorship amounts and do not have to go to work. There are no disadvantages for the sponsored children or their environment.
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b transparency. In: cfi-kinderhilfe.de. Retrieved November 29, 2019 .
- ↑ www.transparency.de ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 4, 2014
- ↑ first children's village "Los Pinos"
- ↑ AMIGO travels with CFI Kinderhilfe , kinderspielmagazin.de, report from October 9, 2017.
