Early childhood education opens up opportunities

Our vision: We want to leave footprints in early childhood education - everywhere we live and work. The early support of our children - regardless of background and social status - is crucial for their and our society's further development.

And we are so convinced of this that our 4C FOOTSTEPS STIFTUNG has been supporting selected projects since 2012, not only financially but also with the commitment of our employees - for example by sponsoring a child or by taking part in the Munich Marathon or other activities.

We are in competition for values such as freedom, tolerance and the common good, which should also remain self-evident for disadvantaged children. Out of this thought we offer sustainable support - without restriction of social, regional or other backgrounds.

Mile stones of the foundation

17

Supported projects

12

Supported facilities

2011

Year of foundation

15

4C sponsorships

Our Current Project

LernEngel in the problem neighborhood

SchutzengelWerk Berlin was founded in 2013 on the fundamental idea that every young person has a right to education, health and support. Its activities focus primarily on children, teenagers and young adults who are growing up in socially disadvantaged circumstances. The Guardian Angels are committed to helping these young people unbureaucratically and with great enthusiasm.

In addition to collecting donations in kind and promoting various sponsorship models, the “LernEngel” project is particularly close to our hearts. For this reason, we are delighted to be this year's sponsors of “LernEngel” and have therefore taken on the financing for the continuation of the project for one year. True to the motto of our 4C Footsteps Foundation: Education opens up opportunities!

 

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Sponsorship models

We can support the children of the SchutzengelWerk with the following sponsorship models. You can finance one of these three models for a child with just €25 per month:

 

 

Meals

One week of lunch, healthy snacks & Saturday breakfast

Nachhilfestunde

One tutoring lesson per month

 

 

Schwimmunterricht

One swimming lesson per month

 

 

Completed projects

HORIZONT - A permanent home and sustainable integration for formerly homeless children and mothers

Since 2019, the 4C FOOTSEPS STIFTUNG has been supporting HORIZONT e. V. in various early childhood education projects. In the KITA HORIZONT, residents' children are cared for together with children from the neighborhood. Here, a fundamental linking of socially disadvantaged, formerly homeless children with children from other social and cultural backgrounds takes place: In playing and learning together, they also overcome language barriers, get to know each other, build trust, and make friends outside their own demographic group, thus creating an important prerequisite for sustainable social integration.
The overriding goals are to anchor children from socially disadvantaged families in our society in the long term and to work for equal opportunities in our education system at an early stage. You can find out more about HORIZONT e.V. here.

Projects from the years 2022 & 2023

The pandemic and its consequences - focus topics 2022-2023

The educators at the HORIZONT daycare center were able to recognize direct negative effects within the families early on in the course of the pandemic: Against their already difficult backgrounds - experience of violence, flight and homelessness - old traumas re-emerged during the crisis, new tensions and fears arose and put a great strain on the relationships between many mothers and their children. Emergency care was therefore quickly set up for the HORIZONT daycare center, but it was still not possible to fully compensate for all the deficits within the family. Many of the children receive very little attention from home during this challenging time and receive little to no support. Of the 37 children cared for in the HORIZONT daycare center, 25 currently have a very high need for support. Therefore, supplementary measures were developed by HORIZONT to counteract the negative consequences of the pandemic in a targeted manner, which we, as the 4C FOOTSTEPS Foundation, would like to support:

 

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These projects have been successfully realized in 2020/2021 with the support of 4C FOOTSTEPS STIFTUNG

House of Little Scientists

Early childhood education in the fields of mathematics, information technology, natural sciences and technology (STEM): this special educational program provides children of nursery age with qualified support in discovering, researching and learning. The “Haus der kleinen Forscher” improves educational opportunities, promotes interest in STEM subjects and professionalizes educational staff. The foundation aims to enable all nursery and primary school children to encounter mathematics, IT, science and technology as well as sustainability issues on a daily basis.

 

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