About us - Moving Child

Moving Child was founded in 2010 for children and young people in need.

Since 2018, we have extended our support to the pre-, peri-, and post-natal period as we have come to realize how important a good start in life is as foundation for later development. We provide support opportunities for parents and/or single mothers for the time around the birth.

Our work begins where infants, children, and young adults from financially disadvantaged families lack vital resources. Our main objective is to promote primary health care (medical, naturopathic, psycho- and trauma-therapeutic), and school education and training.

The distinguishing feature of Moving Child is the close and very personal contact with the people and projects we support.

WHAT MOVES US

“Our desire is to support babies, children, and young adults to find and realize their own life plans. We support their development and promote a future in which they can live sustainably and in harmony with their environment.”

Young people from financially disadvantaged families rarely have access to the resources of school support, creativity and bodywork. Creative offers are often only in exceptional cases part of the regular services and do not count to the basic supply. Children who grow up in a disadvantaged situation often find themselves in crisis situations, which are seldom intercepted and supported from the outside due to unfavorable conditions. These young people quickly lose their footing and are unable to develop their potential in the course of their further development.

If it is a child who is seriously or even life-threateningly ill, the challenge for the child and its relatives is usually particularly great and life-defining. Moving Child would like to support children and siblings as well as their parents in such times of fear, helplessness and grief with different possibilities. Moving Child promotes projects that help families to find support even in these emotionally very stressful times.

Moving Child starts where children lack important resources – for example, we offer the opportunity to relate to themselves and the world through movement, music and art in a playful and experimental way and to experience bonding. Supporting children and young people in their development of self-confidence, self-awareness and self-determination is a matter close to our hearts and the motivation for our foundation’s work.

OUR WORK

“Moving Child promotes the individuality of babies, children and young adults”

The social and emotional development of children and adolescents permanently benefits from opportunities for play and movement, art and music. Nevertheless, creative therapies are rarely part of the regular catalogs of health insurances and public school systems. First and foremost, these offers are open to children and young people from privileged families. Thus, we promote projects that also allow children from disadvantaged backgrounds access to creative activities.

In some cases, we also provide expertise from our practical work on an unpaid, volunteer basis.

Underprivileged and immigrant families often value traditional school education in order to enable their children access to our society. Because we want to reach out to these people, we also support projects that focus solely on education, whether it’s for language learning or achieving a certified education. Therefore, education funding has become one of the main focuses of Moving Child.

The distinguishing feature of Moving Child is the close and very personal contact with the people and projects we support. This way we are able to make individual and unbureaucratic decisions from the beginning. It also allows us to specifically select projects that do not fit into the usual scheme of other funding programs.

OUR GOAL

Children all have one thing in common: curiosity and a spirit of discovery

Relationships and attachment are crucial for the development of children. They need secure relationships to fully explore their curiosity and develop their potential. For those children who have been overwhelmed by difficult living conditions and/or traumatic events, we offer access to professional trauma therapy.

Our common goal is to support the development of babies, children and adolescents so that they can grow into independent, emotionally mature adults.

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