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Here you can find exciting reports, interesting travelogues and interviews that offer an in-depth insight into the lives of children and families in our project countries.
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Africa

Malawi: When the village is involved, education works out

If parents can neither read nor write, their children have a particularly hard time succeeding in school. By setting up preschools, Kindernothilfe's partner FPC in Malawi is succeeding in getting children interested in education and preparing them well for elementary school.

Malawi: No child leaves a home where he or she feels comfortable"

When things go wrong at home and there is no one there to look after them, children and young people often seek their fortunes on the streets. Abuse, drugs and crime are the almost inevitable consequences. In Malawi, some find their way back to their families with the help of a Kindernothilfe partner.

Malawi: Bullying at school and violence at home

Blaze was ten when her parents separated and her mother Mewis moved in with a new man. There was a lot of arguing with her stepfather from the beginning; he called her a failure and beat her regularly. At school rumours spread that she was a witch and possessed by evil spirits.

Asia

Indonesia: Break the silence

Violence is a taboo subject, also in the Muslim county of Indonesia. Beatings and sexual assaults often happen behind locked doors, the victims are mostly girls and women. Our partner PKPA helps them to talk about the deeds and to start a new life.

Indonesia: Childhood between garbage and hope

Our partner organization PKPA helps girls and boys on the island of Sumatra to escape the spiral of poverty by education, and it also provides emergency aid for families in the Corona crisis.

Latin America and the Carribean

Haiti and its people under constant stress

To this day, the desperately poor Caribbean state hasn't recovered from the earthquake in 2010. When the earth shook again on August 14, 2021, the nightmare suffered then was immediately present again.

Europe

Lesbos: Safety and dignity for refugees

Here is the story of the people from Project Pikpa: Nobody was prepared for this brutal operation on October 30, 2020: Black-masked special forces of the Greek police moved into the protection center in Mytilini on the Aegean island of Lesbos, which is also supported by Kindernothilfe, at dawn that Friday.