Agapedia Georgia

Children's and Youth Centre Tbilisi Poverty and war in the post-socialist country of Georgia hits orphans and children from poor families the hardest. Our local partner LifeChance and we opened the first children's and youth centre in Tbilisi in 2017. It gives orphans a new home and a place to feel safe. The house has...

Children's Centre Geislingen

Current Program of the Children's Center Agapedia K19 - Herzenssache Home Jürgen Klinsmann, together with his former youth coach Werner Gass from SC Geislingen, had the idea to get involved with children in the heart of Geislingen. In several meetings in 2017 and 2018, together with the city administration in Geislingen and Mayor Frank Dehmer...

Opening of the first children's and youth centre in Tbilisi/Georgia.

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.

Geislingen Children's Centre

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...

Agapedia Georgia

Termination of our project work in Georgia at the end of 2025 At the end of 2025, we will have to discontinue our project work in Georgia. Developments in recent months have made the work of international aid organisations in the country increasingly difficult. The background to this is new legislation that obliges organisations with foreign funding to register as „agents of influence“. These requirements affect...

RurAbility and WorkAbility projects for community development (EU projects)

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 programme

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 families

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...