Hänsel und Gretel Stiftung

abstract

• some of their suspiscious projects
• poll why children wouldn't visit Notinseln (one of the projects)
• working with paedophiles
• video taping rooms suitable for children
• a video with a girl having the name TIM written to her forehead and a choker on her neck
• godparents for children with immigration background
• The Berlin Senate Paedophilia Scandal that came out last year

It's motto is

thereby children can't get lost

webpage which has changed since I reported on them for the first time yesterday. This page isn't linked on their page anymore. Thanks for being so clever to archieve it yesterday @l23r. More on those people in another submission.

They stand in critics for years now because of their "social franchise practise". Many believe it to be more interested in profit than saving children. Their logo happens to be wool which stands in absouloutely no connection to Hansel and Gretel. The yarn is forming a "Z" or "L", or as @nameof supposed it could be a splitted heart or tears as well. I don't know what to make of it. Anyway wool can be discused on this voat.

Notinseln (Rescue islands)

Notinseln is their most criticized project. Any shop nearby a school can take place in this program. The owner has to pay 750 Euros to get a sticker for their store front and a note what to do in cases of emergency. I have tried to get this paper but you can't find it online. If you wanna try it, the term for this paper would be "Handlungsanweisungen". That's a hell of a price for just getting a sticker, this one to be exact, a sheet of paper and being officially responsible for kids in your neighbourhood. What are those partner stores for? In cases of emergencies children can go into those stores to recieve help. This practise is criticized because a real help would be an enviroment where children can ask any adult for help in cases of emergency. Some experts were warning this practise could lead to children searching for the right spot and getting caught because they can't find a Notinsel in time.

I would love to see the Handlungsanweisungen. Because I wonder if it says that in real heavy cases they should inform the Hänsel and Gretel Stiftung? Because maybe this whole project is for finding suitable kids for another aim?

Most interesting was a study done by the Kinderschutzbund (save children league). They asked some kids about their feelings around those Notinseln. Their answers are telling. Find it here (german)

We should never underestimate the intuition of a child!

Childrens negativ ratings and reason

Children who wouldn't visit those stores made following statements:

• would be better to give every child a mobile phone with emergency call on it
• rather hang posters everywhere that tell children who to get help
• I don't dare to go inside because I don't know them
• This sticker is fake
• Those stores aren't safe
• completely perverted, could be some men which do stuff to kids
• Perverts abuse us
• We get raped there
• What will they do to me?
• depends on the store. If it is creepy, no way!
• affraid of being rejected
• I have got no idea what kind of people working there …
• No, they inform the youth welfare service

Kein Täter werden (Don't become an offender)

The foundation is working the field from both sides. They have a program for pasedophiles which gets communicated very disturbingly on their web page. Find this page here. It is not just the picture. The claim to it is so twisted that it's hard to understand the actual meaning. It says

Not klicking prohibits abuse

This is a double negation so to say. Not is negative and prohibiting is a negative term, too. It leaves you a little bewildered. Plus: How can not klicking anything be saving any kids? Whatever, I really support the idea of prevention. When I read those boylover Forums, I think that some education about children rights, their consciousness and development could help. Although people who take those offers are less likely to harm anybody and if so they are registrated. But in this case, I feel something isn't right with the Hänsel and Gretel Stiftung.

By the way this is their appereance on a press conferens about the don't become an offender project

Kindergerechte Videoanhörungszimmer (video taping rooms suitable for children)

Another project they advertise on their webpage are the video taping rooms. Maybe that's just a good idea for supporting kids who have to give evidence, but maybe this room is more? A comfortable room where children get filmed? Maybe its rentable?

Kinderschutzkongresse (children saving congresses)

forums for politics, "experts" and practise Why the quotation marks ???

*What does "expert" actually stand for? *

Kulturlotsen (culture pilots)

This projects convey private sponsorships for children.

Ein fester Kreis an ehrenamtlichen und kulturbegeisterten Paten trifft auf Kinder, im Alter von 6 bis 12 Jahren, damit sie gemeinsam die Begeisterung für die Kultur entdecken.

A steady circle of voluntary and culture excited godparents meets up with children between 6 and 12 years old so together they can explore the enthusiasm for culture.

Jährlich gibt es 60 Patenschaften mit Mädchen und Jungen. Häufig besitzen die Kinder einen Migrationshintergrund. Die Stiftung wird für den Bestand des Projektes sorgen und den Ausbau betreiben, auch die Übertragung in andere Regionen nach diesem Beispiel anstreben.

Every year there are 60 sponsorships with boys and girls. Frequently those children have an immigration background. The foundation will keep this project running and pushing forward the further development, even transfering this project into other regions.

A steady circle sounds like they have their god parents all together, not searching for new ones. So a group of people gets handed out new children every year to visit museums and art exhibitions, concerts and other stuff, we now know can be realy dangerous for a kid without their parents.

Videos

This is their youtube channel. Lots of children meeting politicians or other adults there.

This is their commercial for the NOTINSEL project, where a child (around 8 to 10 years, I guess) has the name TIM written to her forehead and is wearing a choker.

Speculation and connecting dots

Mind this article about the scandal that hit Germany last year. The Berlin Senate had a project in the seventies which sent street kids to convicted child abuseres and made them foster parents. Could the Kulturlotsen be such a thing? Children getting handed out to Paedophiles?