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Our project “Es-Salam school” in Moytamadeia, one of Cairo's informal garbage recycling areas, hosts 500 children. Most parents collect and sort garbage with their children's help to earn their living.
Primavera foundation is supporting the school in executing a health awareness campaign for these children.
Many of them were examined by an oculist, a dentist, and a general practitioner. The campaign includes purchasing new eyeglasses for those who need one and taking care of their dental hygiene by distributing toothbrushes and toothpaste. Besides the health campaign, the Primavera foundation supported some children whose parents couldn't afford the school fees during the corona pandemic. Due to this campaign, the children are healthier and happier.
The project “Manta Children Nutrition and Education Support” concentrates on the education for socially disadvantaged children at Barguna, in the southern part of Bangladesh. The town is located in a river delta and is thus surrounded by water on all sides. Many people have floating homes, which makes schooling for their children a great challenge. Funds collected through Primavera are used to pay the necessary expenses for the regions only floating boat school. Expenses are for example the costs for the daily meal at school as well as the needed learning material, like books, copies, pencil, eraser or color pencils.
Deepa academy was founded in 2006 to help visually challenged people by working towards the education and empowerment of them. The organization was founded and is being run by a visually challenged person Mr. R.S Shantharam. He is now, with the support of nine board members and sixteen teaching and nonteaching staff members providing free educational, housing, food, medical care and other support to 55 students in Bangalore and 35 students in Chamarajnagar.
The contribution of Bosch Primavera has been a great support for the Academy in carrying out its activities for the education and promotion of visually impaired children in the last three years, especially in times of Corona.
Primavera apart from providing financial support to the academy has also provided platforms to the children to show their talents in the field of art music and dance.
The Pestalozzi NGO runs a day care center and takes care of disabled children, each of whom is looked after in groups for four hours a day. The focus is on education and rehabilitation. Around 100 children with various disabilities are treated and cared for here using different methods and medical professionals with the aim of stabilizing and/or improving the condition of the individual children. Furthermore, the project supports them in facing and overcoming social, cultural, architectural and technological barriers.
Bosch Rexroth Ghana, in collaboration with the Bosch Rexroth Primavera Foundation in Germany, has funded the renovations of the Father Home Care Ministries, an orphanage based in Takoradi, Ghana. These renovations have enabled the home to accommodate more children. The home currently cares for 67 children between the age of 10 months and 20 years, and their minders. In addition, the Home supports a further 45 children around Ghana by paying for their education and providing them with food parcels.
With funding from the Primavera Foundation, materials were purchased for the renovation of the building. This included supplies for the plastering, roofing, carpentry, plumbing, electrification, tiling, paining and sanitary ware. Bosch Rexroth Ghana carried the renovation project shortfall and donated three brand new heavy-duty washing machines to the home. The renovations began in 2021 and were recently concluded.
“The home previously accommodated 40 children and their minders. We thank the Primavera Foundation for their significant role in helping us to improve the lives of these deserving children to facilitate a safe and happy childhood”, Alex Booth, Regional Manager West Africa, Bosch Rexroth Ghana.
In 2020 Bosch Rexroth Ghana renovated the orphanage’s playground in which staff frequently visit to play with the children, aligning with the home’s motto, we build a sense of belonging. In 2021, Bosch Rexroth Ghana hosted a Christmas party in which they aim to host annually. It provided cake, biscuits, juice, as well as a new dress for each girl and for each boy, a pair of trousers. The company also donates 800 nappies and 1000 sachets of water each month to the orphanage.
To lend further support in providing the children with a good education, Bosch Rexroth Ghana is building a library with funding from Primavera on the property. In addition to learning spaces with tables and chairs, the library will also be equipped with books and computers for the children.
Bosch Rexroth SA Group is committed to the communities in which it operates. Fathers Home Care Ministries is another example of how the company Drives Africa Forward.
The project “CECyTE Aguascalientes” aims to equip a lab for social innovation programs, so that 1,000 students from nursing, programming and industrial maintenance careers can work together to design 4 prototypes that help meet the needs of families in the most vulnerable communities in Aguascalientes, Zacatecas and Jalisco.
The 3D modeling prototypes designed in this lab are for example bracelets with geolocators for people with Alzheimer’s or dental prostheses. These prototypes will be donated to children with disabilities in 3 states. The program should also motivate the students to learn through the internships in the lab, by being responsible for the design, the creation and the delivery of these prototypes. With help of the Primavera donations, we equipped the school with Dremel 3D printers and covered other expenses that the school had to further develop this project.
In Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, Primavera is collaborating with Bosch on site to support a sustainable training project for disadvantaged young people. The provider is the Kolping organization, which operates an education and training center with a local vocational school.
The pictures are from a settlement of homeless people who came from the interior of the country about 10 years ago to try to find work in the capital city. It is in the town of Limpio, in the surroundings of the capital city of Asuncion. In the settlement live approximately 80 families composed of approx. 150 adult people and between 100 and 120 children. To young people of this kind of settlement, who have severe difficulties to find a stable job since they have no vocational training nor skills at all, live on occasional jobs they can catch.
It is these kind of people Kolping supports with Scholarships for vocational training.
Adopt-a-Fisherman boat is a project sponsored by Primavera. It officially started with the fishermen of Poblacion, Talisay, Cebu Philippines, to whom the first sixteen boats were handed over. The fishing families in Talisay, Cebu, were affected by Super Typhoon Odette (Rai, international name). This project aims to facilitate the livelihood of these fishermen as well as the transportation of goods and people within the community.
The remaining sixteen boats were handed over to the fishing families in Caohagan Island, Olango Island Group, Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu Philippines. This community was devastated by Super Typhoon Odette in 2021. With these boats, the fishermen can make a living. The boats are also used to transport children to Pangan-an Island, where the community's school is located.
The horrific war in Ukraine has dominated the worldwide news since the first day of the invasion. We have seen a stunning wave of support for and donations to refugees across Europe. Primavera quickly decided to funnel large donations towards the NGO “Drei Musketiere e.V.” in Reutlingen to support their work on the ground. Early on, the NGO installed a logistics hub in Radymno at the border to Poland and organized aid convoys to support institutions in the Ukraine. “Drei Musketiere e.V” particularly focuses on people that cannot flee the country, including the elderly, hospitalized and of course children and orphans deep within the country. A total of 100.000 € has been donated to the NGO, buying food and basic medical care to ease the suffering of the victims of the war.
Navkshitij is a registered 18-year-old NGO working in the field of rehabilitation of mentally challenged people. It started as a day care center in 2003 and graduated to a residential center at Marunji in 2007. By 2016, the Marunji unit had blossomed into a self-sufficient, ideal heaven for MCFs. With 53 MCFs, the center was packed to capacity and there was a long list of MCFs waiting for admission. In 2016, with the help of donors, three acres of land in Asawali were bought. In 2020 they received the permission to build the Asawali unit on it.
The question that invariably haunts the parents of an MCF is, “Who will look after my child after my time?” The absence of a convincing solution makes the parents feel guilty. They start to believe that they have not done their best for their mentally challenged child. They feel bad leaving their “burden” to the siblings of the MCFs and their families. MCFs’ parents want to be assured of a caring, reassuring and loving future for their child and this is what Navkshitij can offer them.
Another challenge is that as the child grows, he or she often develops behavioral problems. Remaining inactive and idle through most part of the day serves only to worsen the situation. The only solution to this problem is to allow the MCF to live among his/her peers in a rehabilitation Center, where, among their peer group, the challenged do not feel challenged.
Hunger is a massive problem in South Africa. Much focus is placed on education, however without adequate nutrition a child cannot develop properly mentally or physically. A hungry child cannot concentrate or hear their teachers voice over the growling of their stomachs.
In the last 22 years the aim of Operation Antifreeze has therefore been to provide that basic necessity of food to underprivileged children who are so often overlooked. In addition, they provide food parcels to 650 children every month, these parcels ensure that they have something to eat at home over the weekends.
Many underage students in Mexico, feel the need to leave school early to start an informal job to contribute to their family's income. This is where the project “CONALEP Scholarships” comes in. By providing scholarships to these students the program enables them to finish school with a full and official High School diploma which is the baseline for a higher education and better life for them.
In 2014, Dominique Leutwiler founded the project "Skills for Life" as she saw the need to further support children from grade 9. Many foundations in the north of Thailand support children from a young age until grade 9. After that, young teenagers are often left alone and struggle to succeed in life without further education.
At the successful end of their school year, children as young as 15 are taught health, nutrition, organic farming, languages, technologies and vocational skills. Some manage to attend universities.
In 2015, Primavera started funding the Skills for Life project through donations and covers costs for transport and learning materials. Bosch Thailand provides additional financial support and vocational training. In addition, Bosch employees offer counselling and connect the foundation with the Faculty of Arts at Chiang Mai University, where the children can approach their mentors on the topic of vocational skills.
With the commitment of the Skills for Life programme, disadvantaged people now have the opportunity to assert themselves in society.
CES Waldorf is a non-profit organization which runs a unique educational and social project worldwide, that promotes the holistic development and resilience of children, adolescents and their families at the grassroots level, thus contributing to the construction of lasting peace in Colombia.
In Sierra Morena, Ciudad Bolívar, a socially extremely difficult district in the south of Bogota characterized by poverty and violence, school-age children and adolescents, as well as their families, are cared for in various programs.
The holistically oriented work of CES Waldorf is based on the principles of Waldorf education, on artistic and cultural activities and on strengthening the social community and the environment. Initiatives are carried out that enable the children and young people and their parents to build new patterns of behavior, willpower and social skills. They are empowered to independently shape their life projects and contribute to changing their living environment.
Since 2015, Primavera has been supporting Bersinar orphanage through difficult times with the annual funding. The fund from Primavera has enabled Bersinar to rebuild the orphanage that was burnt, renovate and help them with education costs, and provide educational facilities for the children such as school supplies, and extracurricular activities.
On 17 August, Indonesia is celebrating its Independence Day, which is regarded as an important public holiday in the country. The month of August is filled with joyful community competitions to celebrate the festivities. The kids of Bersinar also celebrate Independence Day and show their love for the country with in-house competitions and fun activities, such as drawing and coloring.
Grupo Primavera was founded as an NGO back in 1981 and has been supported by Primavera since 1992. The project involves 90 children between the ages of six and nine.
The target of the project “Grupo Primavera” is to help children to experience, discover and internalize values and attitudes, that help them in the formation of their personality and in their social development. In addition, this projects teaches these children how to read, write and expand their vocabulary and awakens their pleasure of acquiring knowledge and taking a new look at the World.
Parents of the children are invited at regular intervals to witness the children's progress. The children's development at school as well as their school certificates are monitored by the project management.
In Nepal, the Skills for Life Foundation started in collaboration with the Public Development Concern Centre (PDCC), Okhaldunga, Nepal and the Bosch Liaison Office in Nepal a Community Learning and Uplifting Program. Focus of this program is to support the education of the children in Nepal, by providing learning material and scholarships as well as soft skill and vocational trainings to children between the age of 3 and 15 years.
Currently 50 children from low-income families in Pokhara’s rural community, that were at risk of leaving school, were given school supplies like bags, uniforms, pencils or geometry boxes so that they don’t have to drop out of school. In addition, the program also sought to create awareness among the parents about the importance of their children attending school regularly. Therefore, when the children came along with their parents to receive the school supplies, they also participated in soft talks about the importance of education, in presence of Sh. Ritunch Gupta, Bosch Limited Nepal.
The Sri Jinarathana Child Care Centre, located at the Dambulla Uyanwatta Ancient Temple (about 150 kilometres north of Colombo), is a registered charity of the Central Provincial Council's Department of Probation and Child Care. This institution houses over 25 children who have been neglected or orphaned for a variety of reasons. To accommodate the growing number of children, the charity has begun the construction of a new building, that will include a kitchen, dining hall, library, indoor sport building, and sleeping quarters. This is supported by Primavera. Despite the raw material shortages and lockdowns in 2022, they have laid the foundation for the building and are currently working on it.
SRGVVK SRI RAMACHANDRA GRAMEENA VIDYA VIKASA KENDRA TRUST was registered in 1990 with the target to provide free education and health care to downtrodden and under privileged children and educate them on par with the urban children. For them, no children should be denied education and suffer of malnutrition or illness.
When in June 2014 Primavera started to support the school financially the help the school could offer these kids improved even more. These funds paid for example for new textbooks, writing materials, uniform, bags, food and even for the teachers’ salaries. This enables an even better support for the kids. Primavera is the reason for their smile.
"The best way out of poverty is to go to school." This is the motto of the organization "Hearts for a New World e.V.". Together with its local partner association "Corazones para Peru", the organization aims to sustainably improve the living conditions of the rural population and especially of the children in the high Andes of Peru with several projects.
The Munaychay children's village is at the heart of the project work. Around 70 children and young people have found a home and a family here, where they can grow up safely and securely and develop with the help of house mothers, psychologists and volunteers. The village offers a loving, supervised home to children and young people between the ages of 4 and 18 who have been orphaned, abandoned or whose parents could no longer support them.
The NGO CPTI (Centro Promocional Tia Lleide) runs the project "Conviver e Fortalecer vinculos". This project involves 300 children and young people between the ages of 6 and 14. The goal is to get children from favelas off the streets, motivate them to attend school continuously, and supplement their schooling with mentors.
For the children, courses such as culture, art, sports and computer science are held. For the parents, courses are given to educate them about their rights and responsibilities in society.
In addition, the children are advised about career paths and thus prepared for life on their own responsibility.
The “Hand-to-Hand Foundation” was started nine years ago to help many children who were placed in orphanages due to poverty. Many of these children came from families who could not afford to raise, feed and clothe their children. The parents believed the only hope for a positive future for their child was to leave them in an orphanage that would provide them with "everything" they needed.
Additionally, with the help of Primavera, over 100 students are receiving an education from kindergarten through university. The students' scholarships cover 100% of all books, uniforms and school supplies such as stationery, bags and hats. Due to donations laptops could be provided to support children at the foundation for their online courses.
Only students who are committed to attending school and come from economically poor backgrounds are considered for the program. Many students are recommended by state welfare officers and school principals who identify students in need. Some students have already graduated from college and are now all in full-time employment, making them financially stable. This means they can now support their entire family to improve the quality of life for several generations.
The project "Leisure School KIT" (Creativity, Individuality, Tolerance) is specially designed for Ukrainian refugee families with children. It supports school-age children and young people by giving them access to the German school system through extracurricular educational opportunities, while maintaining contact with the Ukrainian school system. We also have art opportunities, to strengthen social contacts between Ukrainian children / youth and those already living in Germany.
The project “Pure Hope” received financial support from Bosch Rexroth and Primavera Foundation since November 2018. The funds were used by Pure Hope, an elementary school for around 350 children from disadvantaged families, to equip two new classrooms with books, stationery, furniture and outdoor gym equipment for the elementary school.
The Lift Clinic used the funds received from the Primavera Foundation to purchase a new container that will serve 6000 people from the informal settlement of Woodlane Village. The LIFT Clinic provides primary health care for families with a focus on maternal and child health.
