Painting circus
The MALzirkus in Bad Neuenahr Ahrweiler and Schleiden supports children from the flood area with art therapy. Here they can work through their experiences and paint what they cannot express.
Animal-assisted therapy
We offer children the opportunity to deal with their fears and experiences through the animal and experiential education, to gain confidence and strengthen resilience.
Child sponsorship
With your sponsorship, you can empower children and offer them support with our programmes.
Become a sponsor and light up children's hearts.
Educational support
This course is specifically about developing a new Base to make learning easy and fun again.
Holiday camps
At the holiday camps, it is particularly important to us that the children are strengthened and can overcome their fears. With lots of fun and enjoyment.
Action days
Here we encourage children and young people to interact with each other and offer a range of creative activities to help them develop.
Teaching sustainability
Fruit and vegetable patches are planted at our painting circus and many animal and nature conservation projects are integrated. Mindfulness with resources and sustainability is important to us and is practised.
KinderMUT
We offer children the opportunity to learn how to deal with bullying, conflicts and challenges. To strengthen resilience and train in mindfulness.
Why help is so important
On the devastating night of the flood, some of the children were forced to watch helplessly as their family members were swept away by the floodwaters. Filled with mortal fear, they remained on the rooftops while the stars in the sky were their only light on this dark night.
The parents' fears and traumatic experiences had serious consequences in the form of post-traumatic stress disorder. The children would not even let their own parents hug them, crawled under the table in panic when it rained, always carried their favourite things in their rucksacks to avoid further loss, suffered from severe fear of loss, had difficulty concentrating at school and developed behavioural problems and even eating disorders.
The profound impact of these traumatic events is real and shapes the lives of these children. Our work aims to empower these children and offer support on their path to recovery.
Fortuna helps-News
We will be happy to take you on our journey of the heart and show you what we can achieve together.
"It was so nice to see the children's imaginations sparked by the...
„Well, our food was just as great as our fantastic team of chefs! The kids...
„In the creative workshop of the painting circus, secretly for Mother's Day...
„Inspired by nature, the children painted in this creative workshop in the...
„What an afternoon! The children were bursting with creativity and...
"In the new creative rooms of the Malzirkus, the finest merino wool,...
„Gaby, what are we doing today?“ - Well, it's not that easy to tell the young...
„Last month, our crochet course for children and beginners took place at several...
The cookery and baking club at the Malzirkus had a great time. With great enthusiasm...
The last few weeks at the Malzirkus Ahrweiler have also centred around the...
„In the painting circus, we painted Easter eggs and small pendants with dot painting...
Our brunch in the café car was so much more than just a meal together - it...
Creative Easter time with the children „For our little artists there was a...
News from the creative workshop with Playmobil: „Do you know what else...
Our vision
We look after over 3000 traumatised children at 3 locations. The psychological distress is great. There is a lack of therapy places, especially for children and adolescents. Parents are often overwhelmed by the overall situation and are unable to help their children. We would like to offer a place of refuge on a farm in order to Strengthening children and their families, Training sustainability and a to promote inclusive, intergenerational coexistence.
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Making children's hearts light up
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Strengthening families
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Animal help & sustainability
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Inclusion - living across generations
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