Jürgen Klinsmann visits the newly planned children's centre „K19“ in Geislingen on 15.10.2018. It still looks empty, but that will soon change! In the premises of his old sports shop at Karlstraße 19 in Geislingen, work is currently feverishly underway to plan the conversion measures and find sponsors! This is where the new children's centre will be...
Empowering children and showing social commitment in the regional environment. With and in: IdeenReich! AGAPEDIA has been running a children's centre for 6 to 12-year-olds in Esslingen since 1996 in the form of open child and youth work. Social behaviour, creativity and personality are encouraged in the children's house. Values are taught and the lack of relationships and orientation as well as child and youth criminality are...
In the house, which has been made available to us by the Orthodox Church and which we are currently renovating and furnishing, the children and young people will be given the opportunity to come to terms with their past through creative and art therapy work. To this end, the young people can work in various workshops such as a floristry workshop, a ceramics and sewing workshop or a training kitchen.
Current programme of the children's centre The Agapedia K19 Children's Centre Geislingen Jürgen Klinsmann, together with his former youth coach Werner Gass from SC Geislingen, had the idea of getting involved with children in the heart of Geislingen. In several meetings in 2017 and 2018, they worked together with the Geislingen town council and Mayor Frank Dehmer as well as the...
Children and youth centre in Tbilisi Poverty and war in the post-socialist country of Georgia hit orphans and children from impoverished families particularly hard. Together with our local partner “LifeChance”, we opened the first children's and youth centre in Tbilisi in 2017, where orphans can find a place to go and shelter. The centre, which is run by the Orthodox Church for...
RurAbility and WorkAbility projects for community development (EU projects)In three rural communities in the county of Brasov, we worked with the municipality to train 700 long-term unemployed and unqualified men and women in a three- or six-month course until 2015. This project was funded by the EU and led to a qualified qualification, e.g. as service staff in hotels, restaurants and...
National Adoption and Foster Care ProgrammeUntil 2018, we trained Romanian families who wanted to adopt an abandoned child and accompanied and supported them on their journey until the child was integrated into the new family. We also trained foster families in cooperation with the local authorities to enable them to take in an abandoned child until the child was...
Social services for children and familiesWith this project, we were primarily able to prevent children from needy families from being abandoned or deported to a state institution. Most of the children we looked after came from very poor families who did not even have money for the bare necessities of life. Many parents were unemployed, did not have sufficient...
Agapedia Centre BrasovAgapedia Centre Brasov offers two different after-school care programmes for children: With the club „The little explorers“ we want to create a sustainable basis for the personal and emotional development of the children - based on Christian values - which give them orientation, trust and support. The aim is to prepare them to become responsible,...
About Agapedia Romania Romania suffered one of the worst dictatorships in south-east Europe, which slowly turned into social change with the revolution in 1989. In 1995, the Romanian Agapedia Foundation was founded in Brasov. Agapedia Romania was the first private NGO (non-governmental organisation) to start domestic adoptions for abandoned infants and toddlers aged 0 - 3 years. Agapedia Romania is...
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