Addressing key social problems -  (A) Incomplete education and health risk; beneficiaries risk poverty and social exclusion; prematurely out of school, low or no chances on the job market. (B) Missing specialized programs for groups with education shortages; no sufficient / adequate programs for special vulnerable groups (access to impactful programs increasing potentials); social exclusion and impossibility to access opportunities in full (education, jobs).

Main focus area of offering - (1) Basic language course (e.g. DE, EN); business insights (e.g. how a company operates, financial 101); healthy lifestyle (e.g. nutrition, medical awareness); quick skills (e.g. soft skills / useful craft); after school homework.  (2) Collaborate with people from the “eco bio green” movements, artists / craftsman, companies (service centers, agriculture, production site), medical staff.  (3) Projects done by beneficiaries, guided by OsA, partner & supporters, on topics related to social, economical and / or ecological topics (in the spirit of “beneficiaries giving something back to their communites.

Help us to build a better place for such kids like Maria and her siblings: by volunteering and by contributing to our fundraiser campaign. 

Maria’s reality is harsh. Her father works as a truck driver for a German company and is away for weeks at a time. Her mother works abroad during the harvest season employed by a fruit cooperation supplying West European markets. Both of them miss their children dearly. It is Maria’s aunty and their neighbors who raise the kids together with their own, doing as good as they can. Still, it hurts when the parents are not there to have a life together, to share the good moments as well as the pains. 

The outlook for kids such as Maria is a mixed one. Many children will drop out of school between age 14 to 17. Health problems are common, addiction is a reality, some experience abuse in their environment, and others eventually lose sense of a good way forward, ending up being violent or into criminal groups. Sadly, most of these children will live through what their parents have suffered from: lack of formal education, discrimination, unemployment or working in low paid jobs. 

But the good news is that there is a solution. In addition to the school and the adults raising these kids, a significant improvement of their lives can be achieved by giving them a safe and well-equipped place to come together, to socialize and to learn together. As a result, these children can have a chance to escape poverty. 

Today, the kids from underdeveloped areas and/or poor families suffer from having no or limited access to a fair education support system, having dilemmas of making tough decisions on priorities, and being not (fully) introduced to society, its expectations and opportunities. 

With these restrictions together with the vast unexplored fields of fair chances out there, whole generations are facing repeating disadvantages, are robbed of their fair shares of a good life. The biggest challenge stems from lacking a good education support and being at the same time kept in a safe, social stabilizing, environment. 

The given potential are not explored since the focus is on immediate needs and what could be a possible future is virtually unknown. Our vision is to see the beneficiaries having a glimpse of the opportunities and options they can access, how the future could look like and what would be their part in achieving this.