Yes to Life Foundation
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| legal form | Legal foundation under civil law |
| founding | May 2, 1988 |
| Seat | Munich |
| motto | Helping pregnant women - protecting children - strengthening families |
| purpose | Support institutions, associations and people who stand up for the right to life for everyone from the start of their existence |
| Foundation capital | 50,000 DM (1988) |
| Employees | 5 |
| Website | www.ja-zum-leben.de |
The Yes to Life Foundation is a foundation that supports institutions, associations and people who work for the right to life of the unborn.
History and organization
The foundation was established in 1988 by Johanna Countess von Westphalen and her son Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Westphalen (died September 13, 2001). It is a non-profit foundation under civil law based in Munich . The foundation finances its work from donations and donations .
The foundation is managed by a board of directors consisting of Marie Elisabeth Hohenberg (chairwoman), Hedwig Countess von Buquoy and Dr. Nikolaus Hohenberg, as well as a board of trustees consisting of Dr. Josef Dohrenbusch (Chairman), Consuelo Countess von Ballestrem, Elisabeth Motschmann , Hartmut Steeb and Gloria Fürstin von Thurn und Taxis .
Goals and Activities
The foundation supports pregnancy counseling centers that have to finance themselves without government support because they do not issue counseling certificates for punishable abortions according to §7 Pregnancy Conflict Law, and thus makes it easier for pregnant women in conflict situations to decide for the child.
It supports projects in the field of life protection and family promotion and also promotes activities that contribute to strengthening the family spirit.
The support guidelines (of non-profit institutions) are based on the funding guidelines developed by the founder.
Projects
The foundation became known with the “Tim Lives!” Campaign , which was directed against late abortions . Tim, the Oldenburg baby , had survived his own late abortion due to Down's syndrome . He died at the age of 21 in Quakenbrück in his foster family .
In 2019, 66 individual projects were funded.
The long-term cooperation with the pregnancy counseling project "1000plus" (together with the associations Pro Femina and Die Birke ) ended at the end of 2019, but the funding was maintained.
In 2019, the foundation started its own project “Be ambassadors of life!” With a little feet campaign (embryo feet in the tenth week of pregnancy as a pin) to raise awareness of the unborn's right to life.
Foundation award
Since 1991, the foundation has been awarding a prize worth 10,000 euros at irregular intervals for personalities, initiatives and institutions that have made a special effort to protect unborn children and promote the family. The 25 winners so far (as of 2020) include a. Karin Struck , Siegfried Ernst , Beda Müller, Silvia Matthies, Georg Paul Hefty and Christa Meves .
In 2020 the chairwoman of the Christian Democrats for Life Mechthild Löhr and the Austrian Family Alliance were awarded the prize.
Publications
The foundation has been issuing a foundation letter since 1998 , which appears quarterly (both online in PDF format and in print) and provides information on the protection of life, funded projects and everyday life in the foundation, and since 2019 the series Human Rights Talk with summaries on scientific topics the area of the human right to life, which is also published quarterly.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ute Tolksdorf: Meschede: Die Lebensschützer von Schloss Laer (Paywall), Westfalenpost , February 23, 2020
- ↑ Funding guidelines , website Ja zum Leben Foundation , accessed March 25, 2020
- ^ "Oldenburg Baby" Tim died at the age of 21 , picture , January 8, 2019
- ↑ Nina Strakeljahn: "Oldenburger Baby" Tim died at the age of 21 in Quakenbrück (Paywall), Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , January 8, 2019
- ^ Projects , website of the Yes to Life Foundation
- ↑ A welcome culture for pregnant women is desirable! , Women's Panorama , February 19, 2016
- ↑ "The 1000plus project has developed very well" , press release from the Yes to Life Foundation, September 6, 2019
- ↑ Be a life ambassador! , Website Yes to Life Foundation , October 15, 2019
- ↑ Rainer Klawki: Baby feet held CO2 footprint , website Foundation Yes to Life , November 25, 2019
- ↑ Foundation Prize , website of the Ja zum Leben Foundation , accessed March 23, 2020
- ↑ Stefan Rehder: Award ceremony at Marienberg Fortress , Die Tagespost , February 2, 2020
- ↑ Foundation letters , website of the Ja zum Leben Foundation , accessed March 23, 2020
- ↑ Human Rights Talk , website Ja zum Leben , accessed March 23, 2020