For years, DemenzForum Darmstadt has been providing information about living with Alzheimer’s and other dementia-related illnesses, as well as assistance with many practical questions. The association wants to build on this important work with the planned “Memory-Haus” in Darmstadt’s Martinsviertel.

It is obvious that the quality of our food is related to the way it is produced. In his recently published book “A Biodynamic Guide to Food Quality”, the Danish scientist Dr Jens-Otto Anderson shows the contribution biodynamic agriculture can make in this context.

Does your grandma bake the best cakes and your grandpa know how to repair a broken lamp? Such valuable competencies are to be consciously integrated in the planned baking workshop and new repair café in the Postsiedlung neighbourhood in Darmstadt. Now the expansion of the former bakery into a meeting centre can begin.

The new building for the home school of the Osterhof therapy centre near Baiersbronn is in its final phase – the children who have found a temporary home here in the Black Forest will probably be able to start using the new classrooms and the spacious schoolyard playground in summer 2022.

Advice and support, sponsorships, tutoring and cultural youth work: The IKJA association, which emerged from an international student initiative, helps refugee youth and families on many levels.