Donation programmes

With one single donation, you will improve the situation for preterm and ill born babies in many ways.

Every donation, big or small, helps us to provide support where it is needed most.

Give children a chance for a better future!

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With a monthly donation or with a one-time annual donation of at least 50 Euros you become member of the EFCNI I-Care Programme. Your non-earmarked donation will be used for our projects in Europe and worldwide. This guarantees us a flexibility to help where the need is the greatest.

Monthly donations are extremely sustainable and allow us to promote specific ideas throughout an entire period of time and gives us security for our future plans. Please join our I-Care Programme and become a supporting member today!

You can donate as long as you want and your membership can be cancelled at any time.

For monthly donations, we kindly ask you to send your contribution to the following account:

Bank für Sozialwirtschaft
Account number: 88 10 900
Sort code: 700 205 00
BIC: BFSWDE 33 MUE
IBAN: DE 66 700 205 00 000 88 10 900

With a donation of 1,000 Euros or more, you can become a Bodyguard for the smallest children. If you wish, you can also implement your very own project and help preterm and ill born babies.

It is up to you to decide: Would you like to support a current project of EFCNI or would you like to realize a charity project of your choice and close to your heart?

Joyful moments but also sad occasions are part of everyone’s life. These moments can be reason to think about people in need.

If you want to send a message of hope and use your special occasion with your beloved ones to help preterm and ill born babies and their families, please do not hesitate to contact us: donations@efcni.org; phone: +49 (0)89 8908326 -20.

Together, we can find a suitable solution for your donation.

Donate the proceeds of your event to EFCNI and demonstrate your social commitment! There are various ways that your organisation and team can contribute:

• Organising corporate fundraising activities, challenges or events (Christmas event, marathon, breakfast, etc.)
• Celebrating a special corporate event (round anniversary of the organisation, corporate function, etc.)
• Celebrating World Prematurity Day, 17 November
• Encouraging Payroll Giving
• Participating with your philantrophy programmes
• Donating in lieu of client gifts

The support we receive from our corporate partners is essential, as it allows us to continuously pursue our aims and to make a meaningful impact to maternal and newborn health, to preterm and ill born babies and their families around the world.

We are thankful for the long, valued partnership and recognise our corporate partners

We believe in good collaboration and fruitful partnerships for both parties. If you would like to support our work and thus help us improving maternal and newborn health on an on-going basis, we would love to hear from you.

For more information on our Corporate Parthership program please read here or contact us: silke.mader@efcni.org; phone: +49 (0)89 8908326 -20.

The Collaborative Consultation for Family Centred Care programme is established in memory of Zack Boukydis, Ph.D.

Dr Boukydis believed his work was a calling. Collaborative Consultation for Family Centred Care expresses the hope to carry on his work and everything he believed in.

All funds and donations we receive through this programme will entirely be used to support projects such as the Close Collaboration with Parents training, but also organisations, professionials or activities that support the parent-infant relationship in the perinatal period.

Dr Boukydis, psychologist by training, was a highly esteemed colleague, an expert in early infant development and support of infants and parents, editor, co-editor and author of different publications and books (among them the book “Collaborative Consultationi with Parents and Infants in the Perinatal Period”) and one of the three developers of the Close Collaboration with Parents training for the multiprofessional healthcare teams of neonatal intensive care units. The goal of the training is to change the care culture in a unit in order to include parents as partners in the care of a hospitalized newborn.

Read more information about Dr Boukydis’ life and his training programme Close Collaboration with Parents.

If you want to support his idea and belief, you can make a donation to the Collaborative Consultation for Family Centred Care programme here.

No matter how big or small, every donation does make a difference to what we can achieve for our “Little Heroes” – the preterm and ill born babies and their families around the world! The following projects are examples of how your donation can impact the life of many babies, families, and also healthcare teams.

But we simply couldn’t do it without your help. Thank you!

Skin-to-skin contact between parents and child are without a doubt extremely important for their bonding process – for preterm babies, kangarooing is vital for the improvement of their physical and psychological development. In the central paediatric clinic in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, there was – until November 2016 – no protected area for mothers to give their preterm babies warmth and parental love. Thanks to EFCNI in cooperation with the organisation Uplift-Aufwind e.V., the clinic now owns three Kangaroo chairs with little footstools. These are the first and only chairs of this kind in the country. But above all they are highly sought after, so that mothers even have to queue before they can relax in one of the chairs with their baby. Currently, 29 babies are being cared for in the neonatal unit. Among them are seven preterm babies that weigh less than 1,500 grams. All mothers of preterm babies use the chairs on a daily basis and doctors also advise using the skin-to-skin therapy in the Kangaroo chairs for other weak and ill babies.

Maren Ernst, CEO Uplift-Aufwind e.V., Berlin / Bischkek

“EFCNI offers sustainable support! We receive very fast professional help and can enjoy a wide network of important partner organisations. There are no territories of knowledge and information. EFCNI is open and transparent. This trustful cooperation creates constructive synergies. With EFCNI’s support we can act unbureaucratically and accurately on urgent requirements for our preterm infants and their parents.”

The preterm born baby is one of the most fragile patients in our hospitals. In addition to the importance of medical treatment and care, we also must support the psychological processes of bonding and attachment between parents and their newborn, which is so crucial for the child’s long-term health and development. The right support for the baby and the family through a specialised, well-trained healthcare team during this vulnerable period is crucial. Thanks to a large donation, the entire staff (120 healthcare professionals) of both neonatal units at the children‘s hospital Dritter Orden in Munich, Germany, received a three step training. The training programme FINE – Family and Infant Neuro-Developmental Education includes the understanding and interpretation of the child’s individual needs through precise observation. Further, training participants received more insight on the situation of parents and families of preterm or ill born babies, on how to help these families based on case studies, as well as on how familiy-centered developmentally supportive care should be structured.

In 2015, the Helena Venizelou district Hospital in Athens, Greece, decided to train their midwives, nurses, and further healthcare professionals in the Family and Infant Neurodevelopmental Education (FINE) programme. Thanks to the financial support by EFCNI and the Greek parent organization Ilitominon, many staff members could be trained. Now, the family-centred care approach is practiced by conviction. With the support of Ilitominon, the hospital was able to change many further things in the NICU. Chairs were placed next to incubators and a special lighting equipment was installed to reduce the light in the NICU. In 2017, with a donation by EFCNI, two kangaroo chairs were purchased. These chairs allow extensive skin-to-skin care and are well frequented by the parents.

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is not the first home of a newborn baby that parents hope for. Parents of preterm babies usually spend weeks or even months on a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, often without any place of retreat, without easy access to food, drinks or privacy. EFCNI used the price money Silke Mader received as an awardee of the Prix Courage to create the new parent room „Kleine Auszeit“ (Small Break) at the German Catholic Children‘s Hospital Wilhelmsstift in Hamburg. This room gives parents a space and place on their own, where they can rest, regain energy and exchange.

Dr Sönke Siefert, Chief Physician, Kath. Kinderkrankenhaus Wilhelmstift and Managing Director, Foundation SeeYou, Hamburg, Germany

“The parent room in close proximity to the neonatal intensive care unit offers parents a moment of privacy and rest. It is lovingly furnished and creates a homely atmosphere and a pleasant contrast to the medical technology on the ward. It has become indispensable for us, thank you very much to EFCNI for this great support!”

These chairs allow parents to cuddle with their babies for many hours. It is meanwhile broadly acknowledged and medically proven that physical (skin to skin) contact is very important and improves the bond between parents and child. Kangaroo chairs must comply with hygenic requirements of an intensive care unit. In Cyprus, EFCNI was able to furnish the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with two special Kangaroo chairs!

Joint with other private donors as well as foundations and associations, EFCNI supported the funding of a parent’s room at the Klinikum Dritter Orden in Munich, South Germany. The lush and comfortable room gives parents an opportunity to recharge their batteries while staying close to their baby at the same time. The room celebrated its opening just in time for World Prematurity Day 2017!