2,120 euros to the youth country: donations from elementary school children to refugee Ukrainian orphans
Children from the practical elementary school donated their prize money for a children’s wish book to Czech refugee children in Innsbruck’s Jugendland.
INNSBRUCK. At the end of October, the 3a students of the practical elementary school of the Tyrolean University of Education, together with their teacher Christine Scheuenpflug, presented a donation to the aid project for Czech children of the Innsbruck youth region. The children raised the funds from a prize draw and that of their winning project – a booklet that captures wishes for the world and what each individual can do to keep our planet worth living in.
“We wish there would be no more war”
“For the world of tomorrow I wish that there will be no more wars”, “We want to find peaceful solutions to our problems” – so children’s voices from the book “Children’s wishes for our world”, with which the class 3a by teacher and doctorate In June 2022, educationalist Christine Scheuenpflug won the prize of the private foundation of Sparkasse Innsbruck-Hall, Tiroler Sparkasse in cooperation with the union of Tyrolean compulsory school teachers in the amount of 2,000 euros.
The booklet was printed by the Rectorate of the PH Tirol in June 2022 in a small edition of 100 and sold by the students of the 3a with the aim of donating the prize money together with the proceeds to a good cause. “The children also learn to turn wishes into reality. An enormous experience,” says the director of the practical elementary school, Caroline Abfalter.
The children finally decided to donate the money – 2,120 euros – to the Innsbrucker Jugendland. A facility in which 100 children and young people from a Czech orphanage have found a piece of home. Philipp Halder, who is responsible for the communication of the Ukraine aid at the youth country, visited the 3a in the building at Pastorstraße 7 for the ceremonial handover.
“As a youth country, we are connected by the creativity and empathy of the children. A great book. We report very warmly to the children about the expenses,” says Philipp Halder from Jugendland about the donation project of the 3a.
“We want to spend the prize money from the “Jugendland” facility because we are doing so well. We wish that other children and young people who are not so lucky in their lives are also a little better off.
so the children of class 3a.
To the project “Children’s wishes for our world”
The booklet “Children’s Wishes for the World” is a valuable contemporary document in which the children of class 3a dealt with what each individual can do to keep the earth worth living in. The basis for this is a collection of wishes for our world, which the children of the practical elementary school established as part of an environmental project day in the “Philosophing with Children” learning studio. The children of class 3a designed a book with the title “Children’s wishes for our world”. The results of this project convinced the jury of the Tiroler Sparkasse together with the union of Tyrolean compulsory school teachers: in June the practical elementary school received the school prize worth €2000.