How we help

Your donations help the Katarina Witt Foundation to make medicinal and psychological care for victims of natural disasters, bomb attacks and landmine explosions available. Additionally, we help kids with disabilities or malformations who either live in countries where medical facilities are not available to them, or whose parents are too destitute to afford the care they need. Some of these kids are orphans or have been abandoned by their parents.

Emergency Treatment

We help the victims of natural disasters, bomb attacks, and landmines, not only with emergency medical or technical care, but also with aid implements such as wheelchairs and crutches. The emergency medical treatment we provide often secures the survival of the victim or prevents a long-term disability.

Operations

Operations are performed by physicians who work with our partners on-site, or in Germany. The Katarina Witt Foundation funds the journey and the surgical procedures with your donations.

Orthopedic aid

The preparation and fitting of prostheses are funded by the Katarina Witt Foundation. For this, we work closely in conjunction with the Otto Bock Healthcare Center in Duderstadt. In particular, the high-tech prosthesis DynamicArm is used to help patients get their mobility back.

Mobile orthopedic workshops are being set up in disaster areas. In Peking, for example, after the earthquake in China, emergency medical treatment for the victims was made available through the use of a mobile orthopedic workshop.

In Ethiopia, children with clubfoot are treated with the so-called Pontesi method.This involves setting the feet and legs in plaster casts to correct malformation.