German Children's Cancer Aid Foundation

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The Deutsche KinderKrebshilfe Foundation is committed to researching and combating childhood cancer.

The foundation with legal capacity based in Bonn is a subsidiary of the German Cancer Aid and was founded on June 28, 1996. The district government of Cologne is responsible for the foundation supervision . The non-profit institution has a foundation capital of 28 million euros as reported in the 2015 annual report. The chairman of the foundation is Hans-Peter Krämer . The foundation board includes u. a. Otmar Wiestler , the longstanding chairman of the board of the German Cancer Research Center .

history

The German Children's Cancer Aid Foundation with legal capacity was established in June 1996 to bundle activities in the field of pediatric oncology . The legally protected spelling KinderKrebshilfe was used to help differentiate between similar terms. The organization came from the "Deutsche Krebshilfe e. V. “(Bonn).

The services

The foundation is committed to researching and combating childhood cancer .

It provides funds to:

  • Establish and expand children's cancer centers and special wards,
  • Develop treatment guidelines
  • to bridge personnel bottlenecks at doctors and nurses,
  • To set up parental homes and apartments close to the clinic,
  • To support aftercare clinics that specialize in providing cures for children and adolescents with cancer,
  • to promote teaching in the field of child oncology research and the fight against cancer in children.
  • To support training and development measures.

The financing

The foundation finances its activities exclusively through donations. She is also benefiting from donations from the ZDF charity gala Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel , which was first broadcast in 2009 for the benefit of the German Cancer Aid. The organization does not receive any public funding. Funds from the pharmaceutical industry will not be accepted. Deutsche KinderKrebshilfe finances part of the ongoing therapy studies in children in Germany. The German Golf Association and its members help with a permanent campaign. Golf has thus become a platform for social engagement in Germany over the past 38 years. For example, since the beginning of “Europe's largest charity golf tournament series” in 1982 up to and including 2019, golfers in Germany have donated around 8.2 million euros to the German Cancer Aid Foundation and the German Children's Cancer Aid Foundation to fight cancer. After the 115th nationwide benefit tournament with 7,000 participants in Eckernförde , a total of 290,000 euros were handed over to cancer aid, including a 25,000 euro donation from the general sponsor DekaBank. As early as 2017, a special donation from DekaBank as a traditional sponsor of the tournament series raised over 300,000 euros. The chairman of the Krebshilfe board, Gerd Nettekoven, paid tribute to: Germany's golfers were among the reliable sponsors of cancer aid in order to realize important projects.

Since 1996 you have donated around 7.6 million euros to the German Children's Cancer Aid Foundation and the German Cancer Aid Foundation in "Europe's largest charity golf tournament series". In 2017 alone, the 36th nationwide charity golf games with around 7,500 active participants, including a special donation from the general sponsor DekaBank, raised over 300,000 euros for the non-profit aid organizations. Chairman of the Board of Management Gerd Nettekoven praised Germany's golfers "among the reliable supporters of cancer aid in order to realize important projects". Additional income from KinderKrebshilfe comes from individual donations, bequests and inheritances as well as charity campaigns.

A campaign by the German Armed Forces brought about a record donation for the Deutsche KinderKrebshilfe Foundation: the Holzminden 1 tank pioneer battalion raised an amount of 60,000 euros with an international model building exhibition. It was handed over to the German Cancer Aid Foundation in Bonn in 2018 by the organizer Oberstabsfeldwebel der Reserve Helmut Duntemann as well as the senior officer and commander of Panzer Pioneer Battalion 1, Lieutenant Colonel Christian Belke, and their teams with the promise to continue social engagement in the fight against cancer.

How about cancer

The endeavors of the German Cancer Aid Foundation to reduce the fear of children and adolescents suffering from cancer in response to their questions and to strengthen them through hope of recovery, is supported by the current children's non-fiction book "How is it with cancer?" By the doctor Sarah Herlofsen supported. After being successfully used in Norway, the publication will now help in Germany "to answer children 's questions about a complicated illness, regardless of whether they are sick themselves, a child from the circle of friends or a family member," wrote Cornelia Scheel from Deutsche Krebshilfe in a foreword to this previously unique guide. In addition to the informative children's book, the first animated films for children were added in summer 2020 to explain cancer to them in an age-appropriate manner. The four films answer questions on the following topics: "What is cancer?", "Is there a cure for cancer?", "There are no stupid questions" and about "chemotherapy". They are given free of charge.

On International Children's Cancer Day 2019, the cancer aid organization Cornelia Scheel, the daughter of Krebshilfe founder Mildred Scheel, appealed to all adults to deal openly with the cancer problem. She wrote the foreword to the informative book with explanatory illustrations. Cornelia Scheel encouraged the adults to tell the children and adolescents the truth about the disease and the opportunities "so that they can cope with difficult situations". Teachers and educators could also use the book “What about cancer?” To answer many questions in a child-friendly manner. Her mother succumbed to cancer herself in 1985. Therefore she knows “that silence can be very stressful, especially for children and adolescents”, Cornelia Scheel explained from her own experience about her permanent commitment to cancer aid. "The message that a cancer diagnosis is no longer a death sentence today is also particularly important: many people survive their illness". The book was published in cooperation with the German Cancer Aid and is available in their shop.

Prizes / awards

  • 2009 Medical Prize “Charity Award” from “Springer Medicine” for the “great achievements” of Deutsche KinderKrebshilfe in the fight against childhood cancer, the improvement of the chances for affected children and the environment for their relatives. The award is endowed with a media package of 100,000 euros.

Mascot "Maari" for the children

The foundation's mascot is “Maari”, the prince of children. “Maari” as a Steiff figure is one of the benefit products that are being sold for the benefit of the German Children's Cancer Aid.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Report Deutsche Krebshilfe 2015, on page 53
  2. ↑ http://www.krebshilfe.de/deutsche-krebshilfe/t Zeiteneinrichtungen/deutsche- kinderkrebshilfe.html
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  5. ↑ [2] Results Press Conference 2017, accessed on January 6, 2018
  6. ↑ http://www.pionierkameradschaft-holzminden.de/seiten/kalender.html , accessed on November 5, 2018
  7. ↑ http://www.dkkh-holzminden.de/536057988811f290a/000000a6580f48f02/index.html , accessed on November 5, 2018
  8. ↑ "What about cancer?", Children's book by doctor Sarah Herlofsen, foreword by Cornelia Scheel. Illustration by Dagmar Geisler. Gabriel Verlag 2018. ISBN 978-3-522-30504-4 , accessed August 19, 2018
  9. ↑ What about cancer , krebshilfe, accessed on July 22, 2020
  10. ↑ International Children's Cancer Day, krebshilfe.de, February 15, 2019, accessed on February 16, 2019