Uschi Glas starts snack: Free breakfast for Bautzen children!

Uschi Glas starts snack: Free breakfast for Bautzen children!

Bautzen, Deutschland - What's in Bautzen? The actress Uschi Glas brings with her initiative Brotzeit A delicious breakfast for students back to the district. Twenty years ago, she made it for the ARD film "A love in September", in which she married her partner Peter Bongartz in front of the camera. Now she combines her memories with a good cause and wants to help children who have to go to school without breakfast. The condition is alarming: every fifth child in Germany is hungry to school, also in the Bautzen district.

"The lack of breakfast has fatal consequences," warns Glas. Concentration problems and bad grades are only the tip of the iceberg. In order to counteract this, the Initiative "Brotzeit" 2009 was launched, the aim of which is to provide children with a healthy breakfast. The start of the project in Görlitz at the Melanchthon elementary school in October 2021 was a first step, and now it is time to expand the initiative.

breakfast for everyone

The numbers are encouraging. By the end of 2025, around 35 schools are to take part in the project in the Oberlausitz, Lower Silesia and Dresden and the surrounding area. But only schools that can demonstrate increased support requirements are taken into account. A special highlight: more than 900 seniors are committed to volunteers and not only support the children at breakfast, but also often also offer emotional accompaniment.

The breakfast helpers prepare an attractive buffet that consists of 28 different foods. The children can choose what they want to eat - and this is also important because many of them grow up at home without support. Often it is single parents who have no time to prepare a healthy breakfast for the children. But the influence is positive: feedback from schools shows that the students appear to be more punctual for class and become more balanced.

Future vision

The plans for the future are also promising. From 2028, around 800 schools are to be integrated into the project. The initiative plans to further expand to other federal states, so that Hamburg plays a role with 21 schools. There should even be 10 other schools here. The support is necessary by donations to cover the long -term costs.

"It is important to us to not only provide the children, but also to raise awareness of healthy eating," says Glas, which remains enthusiastic about the original idea that arose in the fight against starving primary school children in Munich. From the distribution of emergency boxes with rusks and cereal seals to daily breakfast offers - the initiative has developed tremendously.

Uschi Glas is not only a dazzling figure in German film history, but also an active supporter for the next generation. It is to be hoped that your vision for a healthy breakfast in schools will continue to reach many children in the future.