Needy children and families at Christmas
While many sit at a warmly set table, for others it remains empty.
Financial worries are often greater than the question of the festive meal.
With our Christmas campaign, we are giving gifts to children in need.
and their families a gift package with a Christmas dinner:
A moment of warmth, normality, and hope.
Christmas is the time when families come together, sit around a table, and share warmth with each other.
But for many families, especially children in difficult life situations, this table often remains empty. While others light candles, they struggle with worries that are much greater than the question of what festive meal to serve.
We want to change that. We want to bring light where darkness reigns and warmth where coldness dominates everyday life.
With your support, we can donate a Christmas dinner package to children in need and their families. This is more than just a meal; it is a moment to breathe, a feeling of normality, an evening where children feel loved and seen, and a sign that they are not alone.
Our cooperation partners will once again be running a large-scale campaign this year, providing Christmas food parcels for 1,000 families in need. As part of this campaign, volunteers will deliver the food parcels to the families at Christmas.
We have supported this "Food for Christmas" campaign repeatedly in recent years and want to participate again this year. Everything is currently being prepared. Depending on how much we can achieve together, our donations will cover part of these packages.
The value of a food package is €80 and provides a family of 3-4 people with food for the Christmas holidays. Let's work together to help many families with children in need:
Every donation—no matter how big or small—turns worry into hope. It sets a table, fills a plate, and gives a child a smile, which is perhaps the most beautiful gift of the whole year.
Let's work together to ensure that no family has to spend Christmas without warmth, community, and a festive meal.
Thank you for helping to warm hearts and bring Christmas to those who need it most. ❤
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Former Christmas promotion
Die Arche is an aid organization founded in Berlin in 1995 that is committed to combating child poverty in Germany. Die Arche runs leisure facilities and school support for socially disadvantaged children and young people at 28 locations.
The children are offered leisure activities that would otherwise have little social and cultural participation. Over 5,000 children are reached with these offers.
The Arche also offers free meals, outreach work with young people, active work with parents and a clothing store.
In December, a member of the Management Board presented the Arche 2022 Christmas campaigns (Christmas party and food parcels) to our cooperation partner, the Arche, on the basis of our "Play, fun and exercise" campaign.
The 2022 Christmas party included a Christmas dinner and a festive program. Around 400 children and their families took part. The children received a personalized Christmas present from Santa Claus at the end.
In addition to this Christmas party, the Arche in Berlin also provided 1000 families in need with a Christmas food parcel worth €80 on 24.12.2022. Our association donated €10,000 to the Arche for this campaign. As a result, our donation reached 125 families with 2 to 3 children, i.e. around 500 to 600 people.
With another Christmas campaign in 2023, our association supported the needy children from the Arche with 5,000 euros and thus helped another 250 to 310 people (needy families with children).
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Danger of a lost childhood
Child poverty in Germany
Almost 2.9 million children and young people and 1.55 million young adults aged 18 to 25 were considered at risk of poverty in 2021.
This means poor education, a lack of healthcare, little money for healthy food, cramped living conditions, hardly any money for education, hobbies or vacations. Emotional isolation, psychological stress: these children are 1 - 3 times more likely to suffer from depression or anxiety disorders.
According to the Off Road Kids Foundation, more than 40,000 minors and young adults were at acute risk of homelessness or were already living on the streets in 2021.
These figures are estimates. There is a large number of unreported cases in this area. Because when children run away from home and disappear, they do not register with any official body. The anonymity of the big city is an incentive for many to come to Berlin, for example.
Find our activities under Project Children.
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The reasons
Experiences of violence, neglect tendencies in families, poverty, unemployment, excessive debt,
low educational attainment of parents, addiction problems, such as alcoholism,
in at least one parent
