Elis Tarelli

Children helping children

Herbolzheim, 18th December 2021

A big thank you and praise to the pupils of Wagenstadt Primary School for their great commitment and support for the refugee children in Jordan. Last week they presented us with a cheque for 2,700 euros, an amount they raised through a charity run. With this money, we will support our Hope kindergartens in Jordan. Many thanks also to the school management and the Wagenstadt school’s association for organizing and supporting such initiatives. Here you will find a short report about the cheque presentation in the Badische Zeitung.

Donation handover at school: from left, headmaster Reinhard Bührer, Lars Schärer from Vision Hope, Sven Kern from the school association and the two class representatives Mick and Matteo (Photo: Schule Wagenstadt)

Source: Badische Zeitung

Give children new hope

Emmendingen, 13th December 2021

In difficult times like these, we don’t just want to be moved, we want to move! For this, we need your support!

In Yemen, more than 20.7 million people need humanitarian aid. Due to armed conflicts and war, the situation is precarious. Children, in particular, are suffering: 7 million of them have too little to eat, 1.8 million are severely malnourished. We support children in children’s homes – currently about 130 Yemeni boys. Recently, it has become possible to sponsor one of these children through our Children Sponsorship Program.

In Jordan, access to drinking water is limited. By taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria, most of them minors, the country is overburdened – the health and education system is on the verge of collapse.

To improve the situation of the children, we are active through the Hope Kindergartens. Children attending these Kindergartens have access to a wide range of educational opportunities that continue beyond kindergarten age into their school years.

Despite generous donations this year, many of our expenses are still not covered. We still need about €80,000 to continue helping. Support our campaign with a donation and give children in Yemen and Jordan new hope!

Each of these children counts.

Each one of you counts.

Our new Children’s Sponsorship Program

Emmendingen, 11 August 2021

The children living in the orphanages in Hajjah and Al-Mahwit are among the most vulnerable and weakest in the crisis in Yemen. Their lives are marked by experiences of war, food shortages and poverty. But the children in the orphanages are also simply and first of all children: with dreams, hobbies, talents. Children who want to learn, children in the growth phase, children who have emotions.

I was lucky enough to grow up in rich Germany. I never had to worry about food and drink. Is that fair? I do not think so … The children in Yemen suffer under circumstances that they did not cause and that they cannot change.

That is why I’ve been involved in the development of the VHI Children’s Sponsorship Program since the beginning of this year.  The program starts exactly there: taking children seriously in their life situation, in their acute need, but also in their dreams, in who they are and want to become. Vision Hope has been involved in local projects in Hajjah and Al-Mahwit for some time. Through these projects, the living conditions of many children and their families have already been sustainably improved.

The sponsorship program builds on this – and goes one step further: What if each of these children had a sponsor who donated regularly – so that the child did not have to worry about food or water supplies, but could focus on learning, growing, playing, on “being a kid”? What if each of these children had a sponsor from whom they received letters. And can write letters. With whom they can build a bond? Even over a distance? What if each of these children had a sponsor who prayed for them or wished them good things?

I would like us to help these children together, with staff on the ground in Yemen and here from Germany.  Not because we are particularly good or charitable, but because these children have no more and no less a right to it than we do. It is my wish that in this way we can fight together against the crisis, against need and injustice in a very concrete way. I am convinced that the sponsorship program will help to do just that.

Join us in this great effort. With only 30 Euros you can provide a child with food and clean water for a whole month. You can find more information about the child sponsorship program here: Children Sponsorship Program.

If you would like to help children in Yemen grow up with hope and prospects, please contact us directly: sponsorachild@vision-hope.net


Hanna Schrodt, Volunteer in the VHI Main Office in Germany
Responsible for the Children’s Sponsorship Program

The 2020 Annual Report in new gloss

Emmendingen, July 2, 2021

The Annual Report for 2020 is out and invites you to browse and read it. So far it has been completed in English, but we are working on translations into German and Arabic. In order to present the diversity of our work and the most important developments of the past year even more impressively, the design of the report has undergone a freshening up – be curious to explore it!

In a compact and descriptive form with many pictures and reports on the various projects, it becomes clear how the assistance reaches the people for whom we are working. This help is also made possible by the commitment and support of many of you, and for this we would like to take this opportunity to say thank you! With a grateful look at the past year, we are also spurred on in 2021 to continue to put all our energy into helping the people in our project countries and also to start new projects.

The Annual Report 2020 is available here as a PDF. Feel free to contact us if you would like to receive a printed copy of the annual report. Of course, we are also available to answer any questions you may have about the contents.

Living with dignity despite personal limitations

Emmendingen, 30 March 2021

“An optimistic war victim,” that is what 30-year-old Ameen Alsalmi called himself after his painful experience with the Yemeni civil war. Ameen has a family of nine members; his mother and sister, wife, and 6 children. In the beginning of 2015, he was injured by a missile fragment on his way back from his work in Haradh district, 422 Kilometers away from Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, where he worked in car maintenance. This injury has caused him a long-term physical disability, preventing him from ever walking again. He could no longer support his family of 9, who are fully dependent on him.

From the attack, he also lost his house, and his village was destroyed. Now handicapped and homeless, no one offered to help or support him and his family. He fled to several areas in search of stability, finally settling in the governorate centre of Hajjah. “I lost every beautiful thing in my life and became helpless” says Ameen, “but I did not lose hope, and determination. I persisted, to be able to secure the future of my six children.”

He found what he was looking for in Hajjah when he registered with Al-Amel Channels Association. In early 2020, he joined a sewing course organised by the Association, which aims to teach the profession and provide handicraft skills. The course was implemented thanks to the support of Vision Hope. Through it, Ameen and other participants have made a great professional experience, learning skills such as sewing, incense and perfume making, and housekeeping, to enable them to find jobs or start their own projects and thus generate incomes for their families.

Ameen dreams to open his own sewing shop to be able to feed and take care of his family, as a son, brother, husband, and father.

Vision Hope, and our local partners, are committed to supporting individuals like Ameen to overcome the barriers in their lives, to not only meet their basic needs, but to do so with dignity.

 

If you want to read more of these stories of hope subscribe our Newsletter or contact us at: newsletter@vision-hope.org

Give a future in Yemen: Learning and living in an orphanage

Emmendingen, 10 March 2021

War has now been raging in Yemen for 6 years. A whole generation of children has known nothing but hunger, destruction and misery. They lack everything, but especially hope for a better future and a peaceful childhood.

With our orphanages in Hajjah and al-Mahwit, we aim to do some good to counter the catastrophe: About 130 school-age boys have found a new home in this safe environment. They are children who otherwise have no perspective because they have lost their parents or their families cannot provide for them. Many of them are traumatized by the war experiences. Living in one of the orphanages, they are provided with the basic necessities of life such as food and clothing. They are simply given the chance to be kids, attend school and spend their free time together playing sports and games. In addition, the children can receive medical care and psychological support.

The project is by now financed exclusively by donations! Every year, about 1,200 euros are needed for one child. This includes, for example, the cost of meals, clothing, personal hygiene items, costs for school attendance and also local staff.

You too can help children in Yemen with your donation!

Are you considering a sponsorship? It is most helpful if you decide to support us on a regular basis. You are welcome to donate a monthly amount to support one or more children permanently. With 1,200 Euro a year you take over the full sponsorship for one child. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested.

Even small amounts help to support the children. For example for as little as 15 Euros you can provide a child access to school for a whole month; with 45 Euros you can provide a child with food for a whole month; 100 Euros will cover all the monthly costs for a child (including food, clothing, personal hygiene items, medical check ups and costs for school attendance). Click here for more information on the needs in our orphanages.

Every donation makes a change! Make yours today!