- Event: Donation handover in the amount of 25,000 euros
- Donor: Böttcher AG
- Recipient: Verein „Kinderdialyse Jena e.V.“ (KfH-Nierenzentrum)
- Purpose: Medically supervised holiday camps, tablets, books, and games for everyday clinical life
Jena, February 25, 2026. Great joy at the KfH-Nierenzentrum for children and adolescents in Jena: Böttcher AG has presented the association „Kinderdialyse Jena e.V.“ with a generous donation of 25,000 euros. This considerable sum is intended to specifically help noticeably ease the often arduous daily treatment routine of young patients and to stand by the affected families as an important support during difficult times.
Important Support for Chronically Ill Children
Children and adolescents whose kidneys no longer function sufficiently and who are waiting for a life-saving donor organ are strictly dependent on artificial blood purification. This so-called dialysis is a physically and mentally extremely exhausting process. Those affected often have to spend several hours several times a week at the dialysis machines in the clinic over many years. For the children, this means deep cuts in their normal development, school life, and leisure time.
This is exactly where the association „Kinderdialyse Jena e.V.“ comes in. Founded in the Lichtstadt back in 1999, the initiative has made it its mission to create support services that go beyond basic medical care and improve the quality of life for young people. Since the association is financed almost exclusively through donations and member contributions, financial grants are vital. The current donation from Böttcher AG flows directly into the expansion of existing projects. Specifically, the funds are to be used to organize medically supervised holiday camps, enable important family and parent meetings for the exchange of experiences, and equip the wards with modern tablets, new books, and educationally valuable games. The distraction helps the children to better endure the long hours during treatment.
The Kidney Center as a Medical Anchor in Thüringen
The Nierenzentrum for children and adolescents in Jena plays a central role in the medical infrastructure of the Freistaat. Due to its spatial and professional proximity to the Universitätsmedizin in the district of Lobeda, patients are cared for here not only from the immediate Jena city area but also from all of Ostthüringen and the surrounding districts. The networking of state-of-the-art, specialized medicine and psychosocial care by associations is of invaluable value for holistic treatment success.
The fact that a company so deeply rooted in the region as Böttcher AG takes on such financial responsibility underscores the importance of local social commitment. Such private-sector initiatives often form the backbone for profound social association structures that could hardly be maintained from purely public funds.
Conclusion: A Strong Signal of Solidarity
With the donation of 25,000 euros, the continuation of many heartfelt projects of the association is secured for the near future. Nevertheless, the initiative remains dependent on continuous support from the population and the business community to make the often years-long wait for a donor kidney as bearable as possible for the children.
We wish all young patients and their family members much strength and confidence on their further journey.
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25,000 Euro for the association Kinderdialyse Jena
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