For many years Buddy Bear Berlin has been supporting children's aid organizations in Berlin and worldwide, with a wide variety of activities and appeals for donations. The Buddy Bears Berlin and help for children in need have formed an inseparable unit from day one. Below you will find an overview as well as further information on the selected initiatives that we continuously support.
Buddy Bear Help
“Every cent for the children“ – with this guiding principle, the “Buddy Bear Help e.V.“ guarantees that 100 per cent of all donations and auction proceeds are used for the individual projects helping children in need. All organisational and administrative costs are covered by the members of the charitable association.
With the aim to provide fast and unbureaucratic help for children in need in the native countries of the Buddy Bear artists, we have been able to realise many projects since the association was founded in 2004. To name just a few: Financing life-saving heart operations in La Paz (Bolivia) as well as several school projects providing ongoing support for individual children in Jamaica and Sri Lanka and for schools in Nigeria. Two very special projects made it possible to build schools in Malawi and in Tanzania.
In 2009, we decided to include Berlin in our association’s range of activities. We actively supported the creation of a new location for the children & youth centre DIE ARCHE. Since the official opening in September 2009, the Buddy Bear Help e.V. has paid the rent for the premises of this new ARCHE in Berlin-Wedding.
For more information please have a look at www.buddy-bear-help.org.
If you want to support projects by Buddy Bear Help e.V.:
Buddy Bear Help e.V.
Account number 6 156 103 000
Weberbank (BLZ 101 201 00)
IBAN: DE53 1012 0100 6156 1030 00
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- Buddy Bear Help supports families in Berlin
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- Buddy Bear Help for children in need
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- Buddy Bear Help supports refugees and their families
UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF with around 7,000 members of staff supports children in need in 190 countries. For more than 70 years, the organisation has advocated school education, medical care, clean drinking water and an adequate diet for children. That way, UNICEF saves more than 7 million children’s lives every year!
The United Buddy Bears and helping children in need have formed an inseparable unit. A long-standing partnership between the Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH and UNICEF has developed on the basis of this social and charitable commitment.
In the context of the United Buddy Bear exhibitions, we provide UNICEF with the opportunity to raise funds in aid of children in need and to highlight UNICEF projects. In addition, various Buddy Bear activities such as auctions continuously generate funds which go directly to UNICEF and enable the Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH to raise people’s awareness for children in need, thus providing the help that is so urgently required.
Here you can learn more about UNICEF.
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- United Buddy Bears and Unicef in Argentina
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- Buddy Bear Berlin and Unicef in Berlin
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- Buddy Bear with Unicef staff in Sydney
“Die Arche“ – Children & Youth Centre
Since the start of our charity activities, "Die ARCHE" has continuously received donations generated by Buddy Bear Berlin. The Buddy Bear Help e.V. supported the opening of a new ARCHE site in Berlin-Wedding in September 2009. The association Buddy Bear Help e.V. pays the rental charges for this institution.
The work of “Die Arche“ follows a holistic approach, trying to help children and young people to “move away from the streets“. Children and young people who – due to various social problems – would normally not get a warm meal at their homes can eat this meal here. “Die Arche“ also provides help with their homework, offers activities for their free time, acts as an intermediary to find work placements and apprenticeships for young people and provides individual support through carers who look after the children and young people.
DIE ARCHE – christliches Kinder- und Jugendwerk e.V.
ARCHE site in Wedding: Brienzer Str. 22, 13407 Berlin
Contact ARCHE Wedding Tel. +49 (0) 30 92259557
Contact for the entire project: Bernd Siggelkow
www.kinderprojekt-arche.de
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- Buddy Bear Berlin Charity Arche
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- Buddy Bear Berlin Charity Die Arche says "Thank you"
Foundation for the promotion of Foster Children Berlin
The foundation believes that all children should have the opportunity to live with families.
Since its establishment in 2009, the six-member team around Foundation President Petra Schrödel has been trying to give more children who cannot be cared for by their biological parents due to family crises and emergencies the opportunity to grow up in foster families.The foundation takes on an enormous task every day. In Berlin alone, 500 foster families are needed every year.
The vision of the members is to create a platform in our society for children who have been turned into foster children by fate.You can find much more information at www.sfpb.de
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- Buddy Bear support for children