Children and teenagers are the most vulnerable part of our social structure – and yet they are the ones that will shape our future. To make sure life gets off to a good start for all children and teenagers, our team of educational advisors provides effective non-residential educational assistance services to help children cope with personal problems and acute educational and developmental crises.

Most of the children receiving our care still live at home and have in-depth support from a permanent supervisor for a period of up to two years.

Our support services are designed to avoid institutional care wherever possible, and also provide preparation and assistance for children about to leave residential care.

Artists for Kids works with the children as equal partners and develops tailored support arrangements for them, taking any special talents, skills and resources into consideration and providing systematic encouragement.

Over 4000 children, teenagers and families have successfully completed our programs to date, organized in close cooperation with the City of Munich Youth Welfare Office. The programs have provided support in all kinds of personal and family crises, but also in school graduations and career starts. The teams have worked with their clients during the support period to establish new perspectives and prospects that will pave the way for independent living over the long term.

Even in a city as prosperous as Munich, many of the children and teenagers we care for live in extremely deprived, cramped conditions. Education plays little role in their lives. Many of them may never have left Munich, or even their part of the city, in their whole lives. We believe that all children should have the opportunity to gain positive social experiences, encounter natural environments, and get to know other ways and places of life.

We were therefore particularly happy to see our long-held dream of our own country centre for holiday trips, learning camps, workshops and acute crisis respite care become reality in 2013.

Our centre in the nearby Allgäu region, supported by Munich radio station ANTENNE BAYERN, enables us to hugely expand our educational intervention services. It has already been home to 4000 overnight visits and helped over 900 children to have fun, exciting holidays and create a wealth of authentic and unforgettable experiences.

Building Phase 2:

Our country centre is currently embarking on the construction of urgently needed care, work and movement spaces, a range of creative laboratories and outdoor sports facilities. An old stable and large barn in the grounds will be extensively renovated to house the new premises.

We still urgently need support for furnishing and equipping the new care rooms, large theatre hall and outdoor facilities!

Artists for Kids will thus use all donations from the 2020 BMW Advent Benefit Concert for this urgently needed work and for additional sports facilities.

We hope you agree with this use of the funds, look forward to your participation, and thank you for your donations large and small!

“True artists are those that think of others and help them, even – and especially – in these harsh times!

For a quarter of a century, that is precisely what Munich-based global automotive company BMW has been doing in a distinctive and inimitable way – the BMW Advent Benefit Concert. Our thanks and congratulations go to BMW for 25 years of outstanding dedication on behalf of disadvantaged Munich children, teenagers and families!

Special thanks go to star tenor Jonas Kaufmann, who will entertain us on this wonderful Advent evening, and, of course, to all our generous donors who send in their Advent donations to ARTISTS FOR KIDS during the free live-streamed concert.”

Thomas Beck, Managing Director Artists for Kids