Tens of thousands of sick children and youth wait for your support!

Hello world!

I am the emperor penguin Bowie, the mascot of Bowspirit Kids, on the beautiful Ekström Ice Shelf in the north of Antarctica near Neumayer-Station III.

With our project we want to help seriously ill and traumatised children and youth to come to terms with what they have experienced.

Probably there are not so many children affected at all, you might think. Otherwise one would read and hear much more about the topic in the media …

In the children's clinics of the Lübeck campus of the University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein alone, 5,000 children are treated as inpatients every year. Yes, there are also broken legs or appendectomies included in this figure. But take a cautiously estimate of only 5% of it, then every working day a little boy or girl comes to the "white coats", who is in a really grim condition.

In Germany, about 2,200 children and youth are diagnosed with cancer every year - in a population of 82 million. Please extrapolate this to 512 million inhabitants in the EU - exactly: 13,700 children throughout Europe ... and cancer is really not the only serious illness or the only trauma trigger that exists for children.

Tens of thousands of sick children year after year wait for the support of us adults. And you do nothing? - Are you serious? Hopefully you will never get into such a situation …!
And now don't get annoyed immediately, but calm down and think about this last sentence 🙂! - One can show gratitude for being (still) healthy by helping children who do not have this sort of luck - and it is nothing but luck - and whose little world is out of control ...

Have a great time - see you soon!

Yours Bowie 🐧