2022
The year 2022 was all about Ukrainian aid! Actions and aid measures for Ukrainian refugee children and their families take place at all project locations.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our friends and sponsors for their overwhelming support and generous donations!
2021
On September 18, 2021, we finally celebrated the 25th anniversary of our Esslingen Children's Centre in bright sunshine!
2020
2019
On 08.12.2019 our new children's centre in Geislingen/Steige for children between 6 and 12 years old will be opened!
2018
The new children's centre in Geislingen an der Steige is being planned together with the city of Geislingen. The former sports shop of Jürgen Klinsmann is being renovated all year round.
2017
Agapedia Georgia is founded on February 28, 2017! Marika Barth's dearest wish has come true! The first children's and youth centre for orphans opens in Tbilisi on October 13, 2017. Teenagers are offered an apprenticeship so they can gain independence.
2016
The new house for women and childrenis inaugurated in Chisinau, Moldova. During the day, the house cares for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 whose mothers would have left them otherwise.
We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Children's Centre in Esslingen. The children gave great performances in the sunshine and we received praise for our great work!
2015
Agapedia has helped others help themselves for 20 years.
2014
The two social orphans Ginkaand Rossita, who came to our emergency admission centre in Sofia, Bulgaria, at the age of 9, pass the public university's entrance exams for dentistry and sports science, and even place secondin their respective exams.
The Children's Centre in Esslingen holds its first ArtCamp. Children from Agapedia Romania and Agapedia Bulgaria experience a few weeks of exciting and creative holiday. The troops are supported by the first European volunteers from Turkey, France and China.
2013
In Romania, we are granted theEU-funded RurActivproject in which we train long-term unemployed men and women from the villages and integrate them into the labour market.
2012
In the networking project Donauwandel (Danube Change), Agapedia encourages youth encounters and training projects in the countries of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region.
Inauguration of the new socio-medical centre in Brasov/Romania. For the first time, an official member of the Romanian government visits us and thanks Agapedia for 17 years of hard work. The centre is the home base of the Agapedia staff, which supports 25 municipalities in their social and medical work.
It's done! We celebrate the inauguration of the new Children's Centre in Esslingen with all volunteers, employees, children, parents, and the mayor for social affairs!
2011
We cooperate with the Robert Bosch Foundation to complete the project for health and social care in the villages: Long-term unemployed women from villages are trained to become nurses and care for abandoned elderly and sick people as well as children in the region.
2010
We have found a house in Esslingen that will be our new Children's Centre! A year of extensive renovations, much of it with our own hands, lies ahead of us! It will be tough time...
The socio-medical centre in Brasov, Romania, is becoming too small and we are moving. The towns’ trust is growing steadily. Children from the Children's Centre in Esslingen pack their circus material and visit social orphans in public children's homes in Sofia, Bulgaria. Great new friendships are born!
2009
The new emergency admission centre is inaugurated! Grown-up social orphans who, thanks to the support programme, have achieved a high school diploma, vocational training or a college degree regularly visit the emergency admission centre to show the little ones that being happy and successful is possible even with a terrible past. We are becoming a new family for many social orphans.
2008
A new children's centre for social orphans from the federal orphanages is founded in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
A socio-medical centre is established in Chisinau/Republic of Moldova. The adjacent ward for malnourished infants and toddlers at the municipal children's hospital is being completely renovated thanks to a donation from the RTL Foundation and has been continuously supported with powdered milk ever since.
Training sessions in Brasov, Romania, for public social workers from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, and Georgia. These countries have a lot of catching up to do! Our employees now also visit the rural areas in Romania.
2007
For the first time, we are charity partner of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix.
Abandoned children in Romania are now integrated into trained foster families. We start training federally recruited foster families, teachers, and social workers.
2006
The new social-medical centre in Brasov/Romania provides free basic medical care for destitute women, children and families.
The MobiMed project with mobile teams of physicians provides care for approx. 18,000 people in 13 isolated villages in Moldova. The children's home takes in abandoned children, often in disheartening conditions. At one and a half years old, many of them cannot even sit or stand.
2005
In Sofia, Bulgaria, the first teenagers cared for by Agapedia pass the university entrance exams.
We celebrate „10 years“ of Agapedia with a benefit gala in Stuttgart.
2004
Erwin Teufel, then Minister-President of Baden-Wurttemberg, visits the Children's Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria. At the same time, supervised residential groups are set up for children in care over the age of 18.
The demand by Romanian families who wish to adopt a child skyrockets. The over 150 families that already took in a child are supported until the child's 18th birthday. In the Republic of Moldova, Agapedia provides training for social workers and nurses working in government agencies.
2003
In Romania, many abandoned children can be adopted into domestic families, and many children succeed in reintegration into their family of origin through ongoing support. This is a great success, despite the opinion of the federal authorities, who have rolled out a lot of red tape to slow us down.
We open the Children's home in Chisinau and place abandoned infants and young children either in their original family or in an adoptive family within the country. Once again, we are the first in the country to carry out exclusively national adoptions!In Esslingen, the Zipzebu children's circus and enjoys an enthusiastic following!
2002
We assume the responsibility for social work with approx. 100 childrenin the public children's home in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.
2001
Agapedia Bulgaria is founded. The new Children's Centre in Sofia cares for over 45 social orphans from the nearby public children's home.
2000
The Children's Centre Esslingen receives the HanseMerkur award for successful crime prevention.
1999
Jürgen Klinsmann's testimonial in Stuttgart, benefiting Agapedia.
Agapedia is gaining visibility. TV host Günther Jauch shows a short clip about Agapedia's work in his year-in-review show.
1998
In Romania, foster and adoptive families are professionally trained.
Agapedia Romania is the first relief organisation that performs only domestic adoption.
1997
Up to 60 children from 18 countries visit the Children's Centre each day.
1996
We take in the first two children:
George (4) and Madalina (2.5) in June 1996.
The children's home for abandoned infants and toddlers is opened in Brasov/Romania.
The Agapedia children's centre opens in Esslingen am Neckar.
1995
The Agapedia Foundation is established.
1994
Jürgen Klinsmann has an idea for a foundation that will help children in particular.
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