Supporting Families with Disabled Children

by Hande fur Kinder e. V.
Supporting Families with Disabled Children
Supporting Families with Disabled Children
Supporting Families with Disabled Children
Supporting Families with Disabled Children

Project Report | Mar 17, 2025
Hande fur Kinder: The forest is calling

By Andrea Fleischmann | Author

The Forest is calling
The “Neue Kupferhof” has been providing a short-term home for severely and multiply disabled children and their families for 12 years now.
It was high time to renovate the children's floor with the rooms for our special guest children. Thanks to generous donations, we have already been able to do a lot:
As before, the rooms are once again equipped with
- video cameras and audio baby-monitors (to monitor the children when they are alone in the room. This is particularly important if the children suffer from epilepsy or other seizures, for example).
- oxygen connection (If the children need oxygen support.)
- nursing beds (The different equipment of the beds is adapted to the needs of the guest children and the staff).
The very spacious bathrooms have barrier-free showers and height-adjustable washbasins.
The entire children's floor has been equipped with a new lighting and soundproofing concept:
The lighting system adapts to the external times of day and year. Morning, midday, evening and night light can be adjusted indoors according to the time of year. In addition, the light switches on very slowly in the morning and switches off again slowly in the evening, which is particularly beneficial for light-sensitive epileptics.
To promote the release of the sleep hormone melatonin, blue light is avoided in the evening. (The situation is different in the staff and control rooms: blue light prevails here at night to counteract tiredness).
The children's floor has been visually adapted to the forest theme: 
The new sound absorbing elements are disguised as trees, forest animals and clouds. They can be found in all the children's rooms, in the hallway and in the play corner.
The new locking system and the climbing protection to the staircase have been made even safer for children and also adapted to the forest theme.
Only the playroom still has the old look. We would also like to adapt this to the forest and meadow concept, replace some of the play equipment (such as the ball pool and swings) and also equip it with the new light and sound insulation concept.
We therefore continue to hope for your support and thank you in advance.
We wish you a wonderful springtime.
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Hande fur Kinder e. V.

Location: Hamburg - Germany
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Project Leader:
Andrea Jaap
Hamburg , Germany

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