Jürgen Klinsmann visits the newly planned children's center "K19" in Geislingen on 15.10.2018. It still looks empty, but that will soon change! In the premises of his old sports store 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 center will be...
Empowering children and showing social commitment in the region. With and in the: IdeenReich! AGAPEDIA has been running a children's house for 6 to 12-year-olds in Esslingen since 1996 in the form of open child and youth work. Social behavior, 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 juvenile delinquency 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 program of the children's center Agapedia K19 - Herzenssache Kinderzentrum Jürgen Klinsmann, together with his former youth coach Werner Gass from SC Geislingen, had the idea of getting involved for children in the heart of Geislingen. In several meetings in 2017 and 2018, they worked together with the city administration in Geislingen and Mayor Frank Dehmer as well as the...
Children's and youth center 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 center in Tbilisi in 2017, where orphans can find a place to go and shelter. The center, 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,...
National Adoption and Foster Care ProgramUntil 2018, we trained domestic 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 Center BrasovAgapedia Center Brasov offers two different after-school care programs 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, confidence and support. The aim is to prepare them to become responsible, responsible...
About Agapedia Romania Romania suffered one of the worst dictatorships in south-eastern 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 organization) to start domestic adoptions for abandoned infants and toddlers aged 0 - 3 years. Agapedia Romania is...