About Us
The organization was founded in 2002 and its main goal is to support children who cannot grow up with their biological parents - children in foster care, adopted children and children in institutional care.
The principles of our work
Together
It is important for us to be able to work together and in a team. Everyone on the team has a role to play.
Talent
Our talent is our education, experience, enthusiasm and passion for the cause, openness to accept new things and to keep learning. We also try to look for the talent and uniqueness in everyone we work with - in children, foster carers and other caregivers.
Respect
We treat the people we work with with respect - colleagues, co-workers, clients. To children, to foster parents or other caregivers, to parents and to the families from which the children come.
Courage
We want to keep moving things around us for the better, we don't want to just walk the beaten path. We don't want to stay stagnant, we want to move forward and that takes courage - to try new paths, open new perspectives and keep learning. And also the courage to admit that we were wrong.
Partnership
We are open to cooperation with other professionals, organizations, institutions or volunteers, but especially with children, foster parents, adoptive parents, parents and families of children growing up in foster care. We see them as our partners, we take them seriously and we learn from them.
For
Children
Children are at the centre of all our activities - especially children who grow up in foster care or adoption. As stated in the Convention on the Rights of the Child - „In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be a primary consideration.“
Caregivers
Caregivers are those closest to the children - foster carers and adoptive parents. They know them best, they meet their needs, and our job is to support them in this role.
Professionals
Social workers, educators, psychologists, psychiatrists, special educators and many others who work in the field of upbringing, education and other services for children and their families - we offer professional support to all of them.