Egidius Braun Foundation
The Egidius Braun Foundation ( officially: DFB Foundation Egidius Braun ) is a foundation of the German Football Association based in Hennef (Sieg) . The German Football Association honored Egidius Braun with the appointment of DFB Honorary President and honored the life's work of his former president with the establishment of the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun for social integration, children in need and the Mexico-Hilfe. Egidius Braun was President of the German Football Association from 1992 to 2001. The foundation has been based on the grounds of the Hennef sports school since September 2013.
Following the credo of its namesake "Football - More than 1: 0", the foundation supports various projects in the field of social integration at home and abroad. The “Children in Need” campaign supports children in Eastern Europe in particular, while the Mexico Aid program has included educational projects for children and young people since the 1986 World Cup (e.g. the maintenance of the “Casa de Cuna” daycare center in Querétaro and the promotion of the street children project in Puebla ). The foundation, established in 2001, is the legal successor to the former DFB sports sponsorship association.
Committees and ambassadors
The chairman of the foundation is Egidius Braun, who is represented by the executive chairman, DFB vice-president Dirk Janotta. The foundation's managing director is Tobias Wrzesinski, the treasurer is Dr. Stephan Osnabrügge and the permanent representative of Egidius Braun is Alfred Vianden. Members of the Board of Trustees, chaired by DFB President Fritz Keller , include Oliver Bierhoff , Silvia Neid , Rudi Völler , Simon Rolfes , Harald "Toni" Schumacher , Heribert Bruchhagen and State Secretary Stephan Mayer .
Jonathan Tah is the ambassador of the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun.
History of the foundation
After visiting the orphanage Casa de Cuna as part of the Soccer World Cup in Mexico in 1986 and feeling the need there, the then head of the delegation and DFB treasurer Egidius Braun and the national team decided to undertake a spontaneous relief operation. The following various aid projects were initially bundled in the DFB sports sponsorship association, and in 2001 the foundation was established by the DFB.
engagement
The purpose of the foundation is to promote sport, culture, upbringing, education, vocational training, student aid, youth welfare, popular understanding, the integration of foreign fellow citizens into society and to help those persecuted politically, racially and religiously .
Mexico aid
On the initiative of Egidius Braun, the DFB has been involved with Mexico-Hilfe since the 1986 World Cup to open up opportunities for children and young people through educational projects. Over the past 34 years, the foundation has financed various child and orphan care projects with well over five million euros. In the years 2016 up to and including 2020, a total of 1.21 million euros will be spent. The cooperation partner is the children's mission organization “Die Sternsinger” from Aachen .
Eastern Europe aid
In the early 1990s, the DFB helped the then newly formed states to build up democratic association structures. On the initiative of Egidius Braun, who was also the treasurer of UEFA at the time, projects for street children and orphans were set up, which the foundation has supported since 2001. Together with the children's mission organization Die Sternsinger , a total of ten of these projects in six countries will be supported up to and including 2020. The commitment is diverse: for example, children's homes, hospitals, educational centers, schools and kindergartens are supported. For example, children from an excluded Roma minority in the third largest Albanian city of Shkodër receive hot meals at school. In Latvia, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia, help is also provided in different ways.
Africa aid
The first donation from the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun went to a project in Kenya in the summer of 2001 . Since then, the foundation has supported initiatives and measures by footballers in Africa, true to the motto "Help footballers help". Projects of football clubs or individuals who are involved in Africa , such as the Togo-Aid Wangen initiated by DFB honorary member Hermann Selbherr or the project “Auf Ballhöhe” in South Africa, are supported in solidarity . The foundation doubles the amount raised by the initiatives. Together with the carol singers, the Zip Zap circus project has also been funded since the 2010 World Cup .
Football vacation camps
The football vacation camps are the foundation's central own project. The youth work of popular sports-oriented football clubs, which is characterized by a special integration effect and quality, is rewarded by participating in the football holiday camps. The foundation assumes all costs for travel to and from the event, accommodation, meals and the supporting program.
The football holiday camps were once the first DFB project that was aimed directly at the club's base. The idea for this comes from Egidius Braun. The former DFB President never wanted football only for the big players - the “small” clubs in particular should be able to experience the DFB. This idea lives on in the football holiday camps to this day - 75 clubs take part in one of 18 camps every year. All football clubs in Germany can take part. They can apply directly to the DFB Foundation to participate.
Of course, football in its various forms of play is in the foreground, but the organizers attach great importance to making the supporting program as varied as possible. The focus is on the young people's enthusiasm for their own voluntary work in their home clubs. The locations for the free time are the sports schools of the DFB regional associations in Edenkoben , Hennef, Leipzig, Malente , Schöneck and Grünberg.
Funding applications and children's dreams
With the Children's Dreams initiative , the foundation and the men's senior national team support the smallest and smallest voluntary initiatives at home and abroad. Above everything stands the motto: "Help others to help". The campaign is aimed at charitable projects and initiatives that strive sustainably for the well-being of children and young people. Around 300 projects have already been funded in this way: for example, educational leisure programs for disadvantaged children, youth exchange programs or wheelchair football tournaments. But the purchase of prostheses, wheelchairs and other aids was also subsidized in individual cases.
A total of 18 different projects were supported on the occasion of the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil. The German national players, the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun, the DFL Foundation and the children's missionary organization “Die Sternsinger” made a total of 564,500 euros available for the campaign. The funding runs up to and including 2024.
The foundation supports the “Hopp Children's Tumor Center ” (KiTZ) in Heidelberg as part of a sponsorship. The senior international Jonathan Tah is involved as an ambassador in this context.
Summer academy
In 2019, a German-Ukrainian youth exchange was held in Malente for the first time together with the Klitschko Foundation. 38 young people between the ages of 14 and 16 from the two partner countries took part in the one-week encounter.
The meeting is about strengthening the willpower of the young people. One method of recognizing your goals and challenges and pursuing them in the long term is the “FACE the Challenge” method developed by Wladimir Klitschko and his team from Klitschko Ventures , which was also used in the “Challenge Academy”. The method was supplemented by impulses and workshops on socially relevant topics, such as the presentation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by Werder Bremen's long-time manager and former UN special envoy Willi Lemke.
The visit by Wladimir Klitschko and René Adler was a special highlight of the one-week English-speaking youth meeting. The two let the young people share their experiences in dealing with challenges.
Commitment to refugees
"1: 0" and "2: 0 for a welcome":
As part of the “1: 0” and “2: 0 for a welcome” initiatives, a total of 3,765 funding applications were approved together with the Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration in the period from March 19, 2015 to December 31, 2019, and more than 2.3 million. Euros spent. Since January 1, 2020, funding for individual applications is no longer possible. Since then, specific training, further education and training programs for refugees have been funded in the DFB regional and state associations.
Benefit international match
The international charity match, which usually takes place every two years, is organized by the DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. All of the income goes to the social foundations of the German Football Association (DFB) and the DFL Foundation. Even in severe natural disasters, games have already been played. The national team thus makes a decisive contribution to ensuring that the foundations of the German Football Association and the DFL can get involved in their diverse projects and initiatives.
The first such game took place on October 5, 1993. The reason was the arson attack in Solingen, in which five members of a Turkish family were killed. Egidius Braun had a match between the national team and a selection of foreign Bundesliga professionals organized under the motto “My friend is a foreigner”. The meeting was held under the patronage of the then Federal Chancellor Dr. Helmut Kohl in Augsburg.
Funding the foundation
The funding of the foundation's work is primarily secured through ongoing donations from the founder.
Individual evidence
- ^ The foundation «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Board of Directors «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Article on Mexico Help . Focus Online. Retrieved September 19, 2014.
- ^ Article on the Breinig-Cologne-Breinig cycling group, which collects donations . Focus Online. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ↑ Mexico Aid «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ^ "Children dream in Eastern Europe" . Website of the carol singers. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ Children in Need - Eastern Europe «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Africa «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Togo help cheeks . Help website. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
- ^ Football vacation camps «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Children's dreams / funding applications «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Summer Academy «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Commitment to refugees «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Benefit international match «DFB Foundation Egidius Braun. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .