An ongoing local project is the support of the child protection association Ulm-Neu-Ulm, partially funded by the Beurer Foundation since 2018. The association acts as an accessible counseling service surrounding various topics affecting children and/or parents. The Beurer Foundation’s funds support the project “Enabling education – overcoming trauma” (German: “Bildung ermöglichen – Trauma überwinden”). The project covers counselling for children growing up in difficult conditions and often as a result of this showing behavioral issues such as aggressiveness, difficulty studying, or shyness. In play sessions the children can talk about their experiences and process their trauma in a safe environment supported by therapists. At the same time, the parents are given advice on how best to support their child. The successes achieved by the children with the help of the child protection association and its staff lead to new opportunities for the children, often allowing them to start attending school or kindergarten and to start learning and studying as well as socializing with other children. SPOTLIGHT ON: TWO SUPPORTED PROJECTS UMOJA IN KENIA Since 2021, the Beurer Foundation has been supporting the women’s-town of Umoja. The town, located in the Samburu-region of Kenya, was founded in the 1990s and offers the women living there as well as their children safety from violence, oppression and genital mutilation. The Beurer foundation funds the school busses, which transport local children from the surrounding area to the town’s own school. Whether the children in the area attend school often depends, not only on the safety of the way to school, but also on the accessibility of these schools. By funding the school vans, safer and accessible ways of getting to school are created. Furthermore. because the transport is free of charge, the hurdles facing poor families who want to send their children to school are lowered. THE CHILD PROTECTION ASSOCIATION ULM-NEU-ULM 44 45
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