God helps foundation
The God helps foundation is a Christian social work in the canton of Graubünden with facilities and offers in Zizers GR, Scharans GR, Herrliberg ZH and Pura TI . These offer resource-supplementing services in all phases of life, including: two school homes, a youth station, an aid organization for AIDS and war orphans, three socio-pedagogical foster families, a socio-pedagogical specialist center, a higher technical school for social pedagogy, a counseling center for marriage, parenting and life counseling as well as a Retirement center and a hotel business. The office is in Zizers .
history
The need for children in Chur and the surrounding villages was great during the First World War . The young couple Emil and Babette Rupflin, who worked in the Salvation Army , saw this social emergency in the canton of Graubünden.
Rupflin didn't just want to preach about love, but also help poor families and homeless children. In 1916 he and his wife first opened a small home in the former Felsberg bell foundry . The work expanded quickly, so that further facilities and offers were added in and around Graubünden. The God helps foundation was founded on January 16, 1927 because the canton of Graubünden had requested this form of organization. By 1945, 13 children's homes belonged to the foundation.
In 1964, the Board of Trustees commissioned the Zurich teacher and remedial pedagogue Heinz Zindel to set up a state-approved training center for home education. In 1973 it was recognized by the state, in 1975 the evangelical home nursery school moved from Igis to Zizers. In 1991 the school was renamed the Higher Technical School for Social Pedagogy. Today the courses lead to a qualified social pedagogue HF.
On the occasion of allegations of abuse and for the 100th anniversary in 2016, the history of upbringing in the Foundation's homes was examined by historian Christine Luchsinger and published in the book No Man's Children.
Fields of work
- The educational offers (Zizers and Scharans school homes, ALLTAG youth ward, SGH socio-pedagogical foster families, SGH socio-pedagogical specialist center) offer outpatient and inpatient education / care and training for children and young people.
- The Serata nursing and care center provides care and terminal care for old people who can no longer live independently despite outpatient support.
- The Higher Technical School for Social Education (HFS Zizers) is active in the training and further education of social education workers.
- The Rhynerhus counseling center offers therapy / counseling / pastoral care with a focus on marriage and family.
- The Paladina holiday and seminar hotel in Pura TI has holistic offers for education, leisure and recreation.
- The God Helps Uganda development project supports war and AIDS orphans in Uganda, Africa.
literature
- Christine Luchsinger: "No Man's Children" - Education in the homes of the God helps foundation 1916-2016. Sources and research on the history of Graubünden: Volume 33. Graubünden State Archives. Desertina, Chur 2016, ISBN 978-3-85637-487-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Heusser: History of the Foundation God helps. Alive, anniversary edition 1916–2016, God helps foundation, 100 years of social commitment, page 6
- ↑ Christine Luchsinger: "No Man's Children" - Education in the homes of the God helps foundation 1916-2016. Sources and research on the history of Graubünden: Volume 33. Graubünden State Archives. Desertina, Chur 2016, ISBN 978-3-85637-487-7 , pages 20-21
- ^ Christof Bauernfeind: Competent and pious. The history of the HFS Zizers. Idea March 11, 2015, pages 8-11
- ↑ http://www.stiftung-gott-hilft.ch/de/stiftungsportraet/geschichte.html
- ^ Simone Rau: "Children are survivors". Historian Christine Luchsinger says that children's homes used to try to copy families. Today everything is professionally regulated - with new disadvantages. Tagesanzeiger Tamedia, Zurich, August 19, 2016