Helping children

We help traumatised children to and provide sustainable help.

Make children's hearts light up!

Making children's hearts light up

The floods in the Ahr valley and other affected areas not only destroyed homes and livelihoods, but also deeply wounded the souls of countless children. Over 3,000 traumatised children are receiving effective support and strengthening through art therapy in the painting circus and animal-assisted therapy.

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.

FortunaMobile

The FortunaMobil gives children between the ages of 5 and 11 the opportunity to take part in a therapeutic programme in Rech.

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.

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.

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.

Be a Helper*Angel 

Your donation helps directly on the ground and changes lives.

You decide how your support should be used. With your intended purpose, we can use your donation in the area you want: "Children"

Post Bank: Fortuna hilft e.V,

IBAN: DE05 5451 0067 0968 3696 75

Paypal: info@fortuna-hilft.de

Supported via SMS

How do I receive a donation receipt?

Donations to Fortuna hilft e.V. are tax-deductible in accordance with § 10 b para. 1 EStG. We will automatically send you a donation receipt for your donation in the first quarter of the following year at the latest. Donations up to 300 euros can be donated without a donation receipt. (donation receipt) at the tax office. A bank statement is sufficient for this purpose.

We would like to thank you for your generous support, which enables us to realise important projects and measures and help people in need. Your donation makes a significant difference and we are grateful for your commitment.

To issue the donation receipt, we need from an amount of 300 Euro your address. Please send them to us by e-mail to info@fortuna-hilft.de or enter it in the purpose of use. The donation receipt will then be sent by post to the address given.

If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

How are the donations used?

We use your valuable support directly to provide help. You decide which project you would like to support. Here you can specify the purpose of use or send us an email at info@fortuna-hilft.de let us know. We also post regularly on social media and in the newsletter about our work and show you how your great help has been utilised.

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We will be happy to take you on our journey of the heart and show you what we can achieve together.

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.

  • Making children's hearts light up

  • Strengthening families

  • Animal help & sustainability

  • Inclusion - living across generations

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