The Julia Postel Educational Centre in Metarica (Mozambique) now enables 550 children to attend school (pre-school and primary school). After completing primary school, the children have the opportunity to move to the ‘Casa Marta’ house. Here, in addition to school, they learn handicrafts, household chores, languages, IT, music and human and Christian education.

Wow! On 18 August 2023, the Anne Frank School in Ahaus raised a record 44,444 euros for the Bernhard Bosch Foundation through a charity run. The goal of supporting the long-standing partner school Julia Postel in Metarica was thus fully achieved. The unbelievable donation amount is financing 2 warm meals a day for all needy schoolchildren for about 2 years.

We say congratulations and thank you!

For doing a study or an apprenticeship, the young men and women can transfer from Metarica to Cuamba after completing the 10th grade. Here they live together with the sisters in a small dormitory financed by the foundation. At the same time, it is a novitiate house where young women from the region can find out about life in the religious community of the sisters of St Mary Magdalene Postel and can prepare for possible entry.

In November 2022, our ‘Bernhard Bosch Daycare Centre - a special place of education’ celebrated its first anniversary. The children danced together, did handicrafts, played and had their faces painted. The daycare centre opened in the Manege building in summer 2021 to round off its support options. Because it is not uncommon for the young people who visit the Manege to already be parents themselves.

Suddenly everything is different. Where mourning is allowed and where you can be who you are. Sad, angry, funny or sometimes very quiet.

Since 2018, we have been supporting the Sternenland e. V. association in Telgte (Germany). This is a centre for grieving children and young people who have lost a loved one through death. We are delighted that, with our support, a second children's bereavement group for under 6-year-olds can be offered. The loss of a loved one is a huge challenge for families and changes their lives abruptly. Trained specialists support and strengthen the children and young people through intensive conversations and dialogue with other people affected.

In 2017, we supported the organisation ‘Bunter Kreis Münsterland e.V.’ with a donation for the deployment of an aftercare nurse. ‘Bunter Kreis Münsterland e.V.’ helps families with chronically and seriously ill children as well as premature and high-risk babies. Will our child survive? Will it be disabled? If so, to what extent? Will we be able to cope? What will our everyday life at home be like?

Since 2000, the association has been accompanying and supporting affected families throughout the Münsterland region and is also on hand to answer these questions.

The Bernhard Bosch Foundation has been supporting the ‘Casa Bernhard Bosch’ orphanage in Schineni since 2000. Up to 16 orphans and children who cannot be adequately cared for by their parents find a loving home here. The sisters cook for the children, help them with their homework and in the afternoons, they do arts and crafts, paint, play, do sports or make music together. The children also receive psychological counselling and are thus strengthened for their future lives.