As early as 1998, the children’s nurse Christiane Miarka-Mauthe had the idea of opening a facility for ventilated infants and toddlers, who cannot be cared for at home. In addition to receiving the required critical care, she felt that the children should be able to grow up sur-rounded by love, affection and optimal encouragement as […]

The project “KraKiaN” currently offers each year for roughly 250 children and young people the opportunity to stay in touch with their family and friends using notebooks and internet connection during their inpatient stay in the Children’s Hospital at Tuebingen. This contact is very important to the young patients as it also allows them to follow their […]

Fruehchen e.V. Reutlingen is a registered charity with 116 current members. It has been providing various types of support to the intensive care unit of the clinic for children’s and youth medicine of Klinikum am Steinenberg in Reutlingen since December 1995. Its objectives include improvement of specialist training and personnel, financial and technical/diagnostic provisions, the […]

It was under this motto that the Rottenburg “Unter Bürgern” (“Citizens Helping Citizens”) initiative and the Rottenburg Federation for Families created its joint Job Mentor project in late 2006. The objective of this project is to find a traineeship or job for young people who are having difficulties of school and will barely be able […]

The Familienzentrum Freudenstadt e. V. (Family-Centre-Freudenstadt) offers opportunities for different social groups trying herewith to compensate for deficiencies in family and social structures, which tend to get lost in our present society. The aim is to reach families and disadvantaged groups from all social classes. (i.e. ethnic German resettlers from Eastern Europe, immigrants, single parents, […]

A stay in hospital can be a decisive experience for a child and its parents. The trained clinic clowns of Clowns im Dienst e.V. bring relaxation to sick children in the clinics for children’s and youth medicine in Tübingen, Reutlingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and the Filderklinik and promote the healing and recovery process. Before each clown […]