Westphalian children's village
| Westphalian children's village | |
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | April 12, 1961 |
| Seat | Paderborn |
| main emphasis | Child and youth welfare |
| Action space | East Westphalia |
| Employees | 400 |
| Website | www.wekido.de |
The Westphalian Children's Village is a non-governmental, social institution that looks after children and young people who cannot grow up in their own families. The Westphalian Children's Village was founded on April 12, 1961. Since then, mainly children have been living there, whose biological parents cannot attend their upbringing for various reasons. You will be accommodated through the agency of the youth welfare office.
activity
Giving disadvantaged children a new family, a new home, was the motive of interested citizens who met in Paderborn more than 55 years ago, on April 12, 1961 . Her vision was to open the first children's village in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphalian Children's Village Association was launched two months later. Today the association, which is still based in Paderborn, operates around a dozen child and youth welfare facilities in the triangle of the cities of Paderborn, Barntrup / Lippe and Dissen (Lower Saxony). These include daycare centers, open children's and youth clubs, two children's villages, a teaching farm and a whole range of supervised living groups for young adults. The association currently employs around 400 people and most recently reported an annual turnover of 12 million euros.
The association, which operates far into the surrounding area, is independent and not part of a larger association. As a non-denominational children's village organization, the Westfälisches Kinderdorf eV is a state-recognized, independent agency for youth welfare. Around 1,200 members as well as around 11,000 donors and sponsors enable the association to make the remuneration-financed educational assistance sustainable and to develop and finance new offers for children, young people and their families in the leisure and sponsorship area.
The voluntary committees, board of trustees and board of directors elected by the general assembly maintain the tradition of family care and at the same time place themselves at the forefront of educational and organizational innovations. With the two-person full-time management team, they closely monitor social developments and upheavals in social (service) services and continuously develop the concept and organization of the Children's Village.
history
On April 2, 1961, the founding meeting of the Westphalian Children's Village e. V. in Paderborn. The construction of the first children's village of the “Dreizehnlinden” association in Nieheim was announced in autumn 1962. Further foundations on the Ruhr or in Lippe were planned. In the summer of 1963, the first Kinderdorf family started work in a rented house near Paderborn. Concrete negotiations on the location of the first children's village have started with Nieheim, Brilon , Barntrup and other municipalities. In consultation with the council and administration, the city of Barntrup in Lippe was selected as the location for the first children's village on February 1, 1964.
Luise Erhard , the wife of the Federal Chancellor at the time, laid the foundation stone for the children's village “Lipperland” in Barntrup on November 23, 1966. The first Kinderdorf family moved into their completed house in July 1967.
In autumn 1973 construction began on ten family houses for the planned second and third construction phase and the village community center. In the spring of 1976, the association promoted the establishment of the children's village "Lower Saxony".
On March 21, 1977 an international association of Westphalian children's villages was founded. The foundation stone was laid in Dissen for the association's second children's village on November 22, 1979.
Rolf-Rüdiger Franke became village director on July 1, 1984. On September 20 and 21, 1986, Marianne von Weizsäcker , the wife of the Federal President, visited the children's village on the occasion of the 25th anniversary.
In October 1991, the first residential group for children and young people started their work in the children's village “Lipperland”. The “Socio-educational assisted living” offer was established in both children's villages.
In April 1995, the Kindergarten “Zauberkiste” of the Westphalian Children's Village started its work in the Am Holstenkamp premises in Paderborn.
In January 1997 the association acquired the former restaurant "Der Kleine Schaper" in Barntrup and redesigned it together with young people for a day group and for young adults to live in.
In the summer of 1999, the association acquired a former farm guesthouse in Hillentrup as the future children's farm in the children's village.
As a special educational offer, the new integrative educational residential group (IPWL) for mentally disabled children started its work in 2001 in a renovated farmhouse in front of Paderborn. The “Office for Kids” opened as an offer for open child and youth work in the vacated premises in the “Kleiner Schaper” .
In 2003, the renovated “mother and child house” was reopened in the children's village “Lipperland”. The training kitchen in the village community center started its work.
In the children's village “Lipperland”, the “Westphalian Children's Village Foundation” was established on July 17, 2003 with the award of the deed of foundation by District President Andreas Wiebe.
On behalf of the city of Barntrup, the children's village took over the sponsorship of the open all-day primary school (OGS) in 2005.
Facilities
- The children's village "Lipperland" in Barntrup is a specialized youth welfare institution with differentiated inpatient educational assistance, an inpatient integration assistance offer, day groups, conceptual outpatient assistance and measures and campaigns for open child and youth (social) work; its locations are regionally decentralized.
- The children's village "Lower Saxony" in Dissen is a systemically oriented specialist institution for child and youth welfare with differentiated inpatient and outpatient educational assistance and participates in community work in the municipalities of Dissen and Bad Laer .
- The two-group integrative day care facility for 45 children "SpielRAUM" is the basis and part of the concept. There are exhibitions, leisure or support programs, therapy offers, further training for professionals and parents, advice on education and development issues.
Web links
- Website of the Westphalian Children's Village eV
- Website of the SpielRAUM Paderborn
- Children's village culinary website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Numbers and facts - wekido.de ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WEKIDO.de - Westfälisches Kinderdorf - Westfälisches Kinderdorf Association - facts and figures. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 29, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WEKIDO.de - Westphalian Children's Village - Association Westphalian Children's Village -. Trustees. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WEKIDO.de - Westphalian Children's Village - News - 50 years of the Lipperland Children's Village. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 14, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WEKIDO.de - Westphalian Children's Village - Association of Westphalian Children's Village. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ WEKIDO.de - Westphalian Children's Village - Children's Village Lower Saxony - Help for upbringing. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 8, 2017 ; accessed on November 10, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ day care center | KiTa SpielRAUM Paderborn. Retrieved November 10, 2017 .
