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.
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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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