Patrizia Children Foundation
| Patrizia Children Foundation | |
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| Legal form: | dependent, non-profit foundation under private law in the responsibility of the Patrizia Kinderhaus - Wolfgang Egger Foundation for children and young people all over the world |
| Purpose: | Promotion of child and youth welfare and care in the fields of education and training, upbringing and educational support, health and rehabilitation |
| Chair: | Angelika Jacobi |
| Managing directors: | Angelika Jacobi |
| Consist: | 1999 |
| Seat: |
Augsburg , Germany
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| Website: | Internet presence of the foundation [1] |
The Patrizia Children Foundation ( spelling PATRIZIA Children Foundation ) builds facilities for children and young people in need (schools, accommodation and hospitals) worldwide and has them run by local partner organizations. The foundation, recognized as a non-profit, was founded on December 22, 1999 by Wolfgang Egger (Chairman of the Board of Patrizia AG ) under the name of Patrizia Kinderhaus-Stiftung and is based in Augsburg . In September 2018, the Patrizia Children Foundation was set up as a dependent, non-profit foundation under private law as part of its sponsoring and trust obligation. There are currently seventeen children's homes in eleven countries.
Principles
The purpose is to promote child and youth care by setting up children's houses. In this way, the foundation would like to contribute to supporting children and young people in their intellectual, emotional, physical, social and cultural development and thereby giving them new future opportunities. The focus is on promoting education, training and education as well as health and rehabilitation.
All projects are supported financed by donations. In the respective countries, the foundation works together with locally established partner organizations. The projects are based on the principle of helping people to help themselves and are set to run for at least 25 years.
development
The first children's home was opened in Peramiho, Tanzania , in 2002 . The new building is an extension of the Benedictine mission hospital and serves as a children's hospital. The first house in Germany opened in Munich in 2006. As an aftercare facility based on the “ Bunter Kreis ” model, it offers help for families with chronically and seriously ill children. There are also children's homes in Augsburg (2), Hamburg , Alego (Kenya), Buyamba ( Uganda ), Dhoksan (Nepal), Grabouw ( South Africa ), Harare ( Zimbabwe ), Kattike ( Nepal ), Ntarama ( Rwanda ), Porayar ( India), Sondoveni ( Peru ), Songea (Tanzania), Syangeni (Kenya), Yaoundé ( Cameroon ), In Peramiho (Tanzania) a second children's home was opened in 2017.
The first children's home in Peramiho was extensively renovated and modernized in 2016 and 2017 together with architecture students from the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences and reopened in February 2017.
The children's home in Alego (Kenya) was opened in July 2018 by former US President Barack Obama, who traveled to Kenya to open the training center at the invitation of his sister Auma Obama , the founder and head of the partner organization Auma Obama Foundation .
management
The foundation is represented externally by the foundation board , which manages the business. The Board of Trustees monitors the Board of Trustees, makes decisions about new projects and can get advice from the Board of Trustees . All committee members work exclusively on a voluntary basis.
The honorary foundation board consists of Constanze Egger, Konrad Finkenzeller, Angelika Jacobi (chairwoman), Andreas Heibrock, Peter Helfrich, Andreas Menke and Simon Woolf. The board of trustees consists of Wolfgang Egger, the founder of the foundation, Janine Egger and Alfred Hoschek. The foundation advisory board includes brother Ansgar Stüfe (head of the Vier-Türme-Verlag of the Münsterschwarzach Abbey), Wolfgang Fratz (auditor and tax advisor at Sonntag & Partner), Mario Liebermann (former member of the foundation board), Wolfgang Nieradzik (member of the management of the Funk Group ) and Matthias Schleipfer (branch manager of Fürst Fugger Privatbank Aktiengesellschaft).
The foundation board is supported on a full-time basis by the managing director Angelika Jacobi and her team. Their tasks include the coordination of all foundation activities, maintaining contact with local project partners, grant management and fundraising, as well as press and public relations work.
financing
The foundation is financed exclusively through donations and sponsorship funds . Every donation flows in full into the projects, since the main sponsors assume all marketing, material and personnel costs. Patrizia AG also provides its business premises. The use of funds and the charitable status of the foundation are checked annually by the government of Swabia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian Directory of Foundations , accessed on November 2, 2017
- ↑ Projects on www.patrizia.foundation/wo-wir-helfen/
- ↑ B4B Economic Life Swabia: PATRIZIA KinderHaus Foundation has already helped 150,000 children worldwide. Retrieved October 21, 2015 .
- ↑ PATRIZIA Children Foundation projects. Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Patrizia AG press release of August 7, 2018: PATRIZIA KinderHaus Foundation opens new project in Kenya. Retrieved July 28, 2020 .