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 Dinner

Christmas 2025

Christmas is a time when families come together, sit around a table, and share warmth with one another. But for many families—especially children facing difficult circumstances—that table often remains empty.

Thanks to your help and our dedication, our “Food for Christmas” campaign allowed us to bring warmth to places where the cold dominates daily life this Christmas 2025.

With your support, we were able to donate a Christmas dinner package to children in need and their families. It is more than just a meal; it isa moment to breathe easy, a sense of normalcy, and an evening when children feel loved and seen.

In December 2025, on Christmas Eve, our partners organized a large-scale initiative to distribute Christmas food packages to families in need. With the help of many volunteers, food packages were delivered to selected families in need on Christmas Day.

Through this Christmas campaign for children in need, we were able to support families for whom a festive Christmas dinner is not a given.

Thanks to the donations received, a totalof 4,000 euroswas raised. This allowed us to distribute50 Christmas care packages, reaching approximately150 peopleand bringing a little warmth, relief, and hope to families with children this Christmas.

Each Christmas box meant more than just food: it symbolized a set table, a moment to catch one’s breath, and the feeling of not being forgotten at Christmas.

At the same time, we supported pensioners in need through our “Food for Christmas” campaign. (For more information, see our “Christmas for Pensioners” campaign.)

Both initiatives share the same goal: to bring the spirit of Christmas to places where worry, loneliness, or poverty dominate daily life.

Your commitment

Help us to help these children!

Donations

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).

Your commitment

Help us to help these children!

Donations

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.