10,000 euro donation: unforgettable vacation for children with kidney in Jena!

10,000 euro donation: unforgettable vacation for children with kidney in Jena!

Jena, Deutschland - in Jena, July 17, 2025 was a very special day for 18 young patients between the ages of 8 and 21. Thanks to a generous donation of 10,000 euros from Rotary Club Weimar Bauhaus You were able to take part in a one-week holiday leisure. This initiative was organized by the Association of Children's Dialysis Jena e.V. and brought a welcome change in the often turbulent and challenging everyday life of chronic kidney children and adolescents.

The trip took the group to Naunhof near Leipzig, where various activities such as Baden in Grillensee, a trip to the popular Leipzig Zoo and climbing adventures in the climbing forest were on the program. Additional adventure educational team games provided a lot of fun and laughing together. The group accompanied an interdisciplinary team consisting of a pediatrician, a psychologist, a urotherapist and four nursing staff so that medical care was always guaranteed.

medical care on site

It is particularly gratifying that despite the health challenges, medical care was not neglected. Two participants received hemodialysis during leisure time, while an eight -year -old boy was treated with nocturnal abdominal discia. Six of the children are waiting for a donor organ, while others have already been successfully transplanted. This special form of leisure activities not only gives those affected urgently needed relaxation, but also the opportunity to close new friendships and to fortify themselves in a relaxed atmosphere.

Judith Mannich, psychologist in the KFH kidney center for children and young people, emphasizes the significant value of such experiences. For many children and adolescents, it is crucial to experience joie de vivre and normality, even if they have to deal with serious illness. The holiday season enables you to simply be children and not only to define yourself through your illness, such as The University Hospital Jena reported.

thanks to the supporters

The Association of Children's Diabit Jena e.V. would like to thank all of its supporters, especially with the Rotary Club Weimar Bauhaus and the University Hospital Jena and the Kuratorium for dialysis and renal transplantation e.V. Such initiatives are of great importance, since they show that the community is together in difficult times. Information about kidney diseases in children and their treatment can also be accessed via the Federal Association of kidney . The shared support enables the focus of the concerns concerned and give them hope and joie de vivre.