Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff uses prize money, the Foundation’s investment income and donations to sponsor school projects for children in war zones and conflict areas.
These funds are specifically earmarked for the “school in the box”, a worldwide UNICEF project. The “school in the box” gives children growing up in an environment dominated by violence and poverty the chance of a piece of normality and a future. The boxes are filled with exercise books, pens, pencils, erasers, slates, school bags and other learning materials – in other words, the essentials for providing 40 children with a basic education.
This immediate aid – complete with instructions in the local language – is even delivered to remote conflict areas cut off from the outside world: in 2003 the “school in the box” was used most of all in Afghanistan and Chechnya. In 2007 UNICEF was able to distribute 15,888 “schools in the box” in 43 countries.
Currently the “school in the box” is being used as part of emergency aid for the Gaza Strip and Myanmar, as well as in many other countries throughout the world. A box currently costs € 200.
Since the beginning, the Ann Kathrin Linsenhoff UNICEF Foundation has supported this important education project and has collected the substantial sum of more than 1,111,000 euros, most of it from private donations.
