Heiner Buttenberg Stiftung

The Heiner Buttenberg Foundation is a private, non-profit foundation under civil law based in Meckenheim. Founded on July 15, 2000, by the entrepreneur Heiner Buttenberg, its goal is to support needy and orphaned children and adolescents in Eastern European countries, primarily in Romania. It maintains and supports several local projects, including a children's cancer hospital in Timișoara, a leukemia hospital in Buziaș, a youth farm in Bacău, as well as several children's homes in Timișoara and the surrounding area. The foundation is financed through the leasing of the City Hotel Meckenheim as well as through donations and ensures that 100% of the donation income benefits the projects.

Our goal is to provide health, education, and prospects to needy and orphaned children and adolescents in Eastern Europe. We are committed to meeting medical supply needs, enabling accommodation and care in children's homes, and improving the chances for an independent life through training and employment opportunities. In doing so, we believe in the power of individual support and the community's responsibility to assist children in need.

The funding programs of the Heiner Buttenberg Foundation are aimed at needy, sick, and orphaned children and adolescents aged approximately 8 to 20 years in Eastern European countries, particularly in Romania. Support is provided to children and young people with serious illnesses (e.g., leukemia, type 1 diabetes, hemophilia), orphans and half-orphans without family support, young people without vocational training or employment in rural and remote areas, as well as long-term homeless individuals and their children, who are offered a life perspective through work projects such as the youth farm in Bacău.