Foundations
Cooperation with foundations
In addition to donations from our supporters and sustaining members, we are grateful for donations from foundations.
Wolfgang R. Fikentscher Kinderhilfestiftung
The Wolfgang R. Fikentscher Kinderhilfestiftung, based in Munich, has been a permanent and important partner of Burundikids e.V. since 2008.
The ETO vocational training centre in Gitega was built jointly. The foundation financed the construction of the training centre and contributes to the running costs.
The successful cooperation continues with the construction of the new primary school in Gatumba.
→ Wolfgang R. Fikentscher-Kinderhilfestiftung
ALTERNAID Stiftung für Menschen in Not
The ALTERNAID Foundation supported the Mother and Child Home Centre Nyubahiriza and provided emergency aid during and after the flood disaster in 2020.
Ernst Prost Foundation For Africa
The Ernst Prost Foundation For Africa supported the Ecole Technique de l’Education Environnementale (ETEE) in Ngozi by equipping a new classroom for theoretical training and vocational preparation in modern agriculture, animal husbandry and resource conservation. The Foundation is also financing a multi-purpose room, which will be used for school meals for the boarding school pupils on the one hand and to create learning corners within the school grounds on the other.
eudim Foundation
The eudim Foundation for Social Justice has supported two Burundikids e.V. projects. Thanks to its support, an ambulance could be purchased for the Hôpital Hippocrate de Kajaga (HHK).
Furthermore, eudim supports the reintegration of former street children into Burundian society.
Francis-Hauck-Stiftung
The Francis Hauck Foundation has financed one floor each of the 2nd and 3rd construction phases of the EPCM.
Georg Kraus Foundation
The Georg Kraus Foundation supported our school Ecole Polyvalente Carolus Magnus (EPCM) in Bujumbura by co-financing the equipping of classrooms and a teaching kitchen for the hotel and tourism trainees.
Reiner Meutsch Foundation Fly & Help
The foundation supported us in the construction of a three-grade pre-school in the Mutimbuzi community. The facility prepares girls and boys for school enrolment at the EPCM.
Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation
In June 2021, the teaching pharmacy “Pharmacie Yacu” (Kirundi: “Our Pharmacy”) was opened in the new village of Nyabugete with financial support from the EKFS. It supplies the population on the southern outskirts of Bujumbura with high-quality medicines. The pharmacy also serves as a training and further education centre for prospective or fully trained PTAs.
Thilo Kehrer Foundation
The new Thilo Kehrer Centre is being built in Gitega. The youth centre’s future educational, cultural and sporting activities will be developed together with the local young people. The construction is being subsidised by the TKF.
Stiftung Jugend spielt
The foundation regularly donates money to finance sporting activities for our young people.
Morpho Foundation
The Morpho Foundation supports the ‘Emergency Medical Aid’ project for families affected by flooding in the Sobel camp.
Foundation for the Promotion of African Women and Orphans
BURUNDI KIDS has been working with great people around the world for many years. Sponsoring members, cooperation partners, volunteers and supporters make up our organisation.
Last year, we once again crossed paths with one such person. Mrs Sam-Duk Patzelt, a Berliner from South Korea, contacted us with her idea of setting up a foundation. The ‘Foundation for the Promotion of African Women and Orphans’ (SFFW) is to award scholarships in the university and higher education sector to talented young women from economically weaker families and to young people from social institutions in Burundi in order to give them access to higher educational opportunities. The full scholarship will cover the costs of tuition fees, associated training and acquisition costs as well as any living expenses that may arise. The SFFW Board, together with the partner organisations Burundikids e.V. and Fondation Stamm, will decide on the allocation of the scholarships once a year.
Although the SFFW is still in the process of being founded, the scholarship programme has already been launched. In January, eleven lucky young people began their studies at one of several universities in Burundi.
