Advent calendar

The Wichtel Challenge is a project that fulfills the heartfelt wishes of socially disadvantaged people. The initiative operates in Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Switzerland.

Our mission: to bring a smile to the faces of socially disadvantaged people at Christmas time.

The Regenbogental Therapy Farm supports children and their families during times of illness, death, and grief. With animal co-therapists such as horses, goats, llamas, and rabbits, individual strengths are fostered and new perspectives are created.

The association uarespecial supports families with children with different needs and aims to raise awareness in society and promote the idea of inclusion. 

The main reason for founding the association is to share and exchange information. We help navigate the bureaucratic jungle, fill out necessary forms together, but also see ourselves as a source of emotional support in difficult situations. Our regular meetings and outings encourage lively exchange, but also offer space for fun and normality, as do our creative workshop and our UK Café. Furthermore, we offer both online and in-person opportunities for continuing education and exchange.

The Kinderhände association has existed since 2006. Barbara Schuster and Andrea Rohrauer led the first bilingual, bimodal playgroups in Austrian Sign Language (ÖGS) and German in Vienna. The association now serves as a central competence center, offering playgroups, a counseling center for parents, educators, and interested parties, and offering continuing education.

RAINBOWS supports children and young people in coping with grief, the separation or divorce of their parents, or the death of a caregiver. 

The association also offers training and continuing education to acquire professional skills in these topics.

The association supports members in arbitration proceedings, promotes scientific studies in the field of assistance dogs, deals with the issues of access rights for assistance dogs, and offers continuing education events. 

The Patient Support Team is a non-profit organization working exclusively for the Landstraße Clinic. The goal of the organization is to make patients' stays at the hospital more pleasant. Because being sick is no fun – a hospital stay is considered a stressful experience and is often associated with pain, anxiety, and the need for orientation for patients.

Empathic volunteers donate their time and attention, offering support through conversations, helping out, and running errands to ease stress, lift spirits, and promote recovery. Both patients and staff benefit from this.

pro mente Vienna promotes mental and social health through information, prevention, and rehabilitation. It provides support to people experiencing mental health crises. 

The non-profit organization Partner-Hunde Österreich provides specially trained dogs for people with various disabilities.

With a Partner-Dog® as a companion, you will improve:

• Mobility & Independence
• Integration into society
• communication between disabled and non-disabled people
• physical fitness and endurance
• the immune system through increased exercise in fresh air
• the general “feeling good – being in the middle”
• the joy of life and “enterprising spirit”

We bring extraordinary dogs together with extraordinary people – for more joy in life and independence.

The integration wien association is committed to the equal participation of people with disabilities. It provides advice to families of children, young people, and adults, and supports people with disabilities with regard to the job market, leisure activities, and housing.

Courage offers psychosocial, psychotherapeutic, psychiatric, sex education, social work, and legal counseling, support, and treatment. This professional counseling service is available to people of all sexual orientations and gender identities.

Queer Base offers legal advice, social and coming out counseling, community networking, and support in medical and psychological matters.

Login offers health promotion and social integration. The association offers a wide range of support services, including therapeutic, mindfulness-based, and other health-promoting activities and the social contact point loginBase.

MOKI-Wien is a mobile pediatric care service. Families caring for their children at home receive support and relief.

At the Delphin Theatre, people with and without disabilities perform; the aim is to increase social acceptance of inclusive theatre and reduce reservations. 

Lobby.16 is committed to ensuring that young refugees have access to education and employment. Young people are advised on education, employment, and everyday life. 

Aids Hilfe Wien consists of a multidisciplinary team that works comprehensively on the topic of sexual health. They have specialist expertise in HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. It is one of the most well-known and accepted centers for sexual health issues. They conduct testing and offer psychological support. 

There is a lot of information available, and in the area of prevention there are workshops for nursing staff and young people, for example. 

neunerhaus enables homeless people and those at risk of poverty to live a self-determined and dignified life with medical care, housing, and counseling. 

ZARA offers free counseling to those affected by racism and witnesses of online hate. 

ZARA offers workshops and training courses as well as projects in the areas of diversity, awareness-raising, anti-racism, and civil courage.

Ich bin OK is a cultural and educational organization for people with and without disabilities. It offers classes in 10 different dance styles for everyone ages five and up.

LIFEtool offers advice on assistive technologies and supported communication for people with disabilities. LIFEtool participates in research projects and develops products to enable participation for all.

A wealth of information is available on the topic of caregiving, including financial issues, legal matters, social services, and caring for children and young people.

The association was founded to represent the interests of family caregivers and their families. It aims to improve the living conditions of family caregivers and also to raise public awareness of the social relevance and the burdens and challenges they face.

"Soup with Meaning" is the winter fundraising campaign of Die Tafel Österreich (Austrian Food Bank). The Austrian food bank is committed to helping people affected by poverty. It distributes rescued, edible food free of charge to approximately 100 social institutions in Vienna. 

Holy Days offers families with children with disabilities and chronic illnesses a supervised flight and vacation by the sea. A week of relaxation and respite for the whole family!

Family members of children with disabilities achieve great things... in addition to health concerns and care services (in many cases 24/365), they often lack financial resources and, above all, opportunities for relief. Despite the high physical and mental stress, vacation and relaxation are foreign concepts. Vacation usually just means relocating the "workplace"; the worries and responsibilities travel with them.

Siblings, in particular, often have to put their needs aside, as many things are simply impossible with a child in high need of care, or all of their attention and energy are channeled into the agreed-upon care! A vacation, something that seems perfectly normal for most, has often been impossible for affected families for years. Air travel is avoided because there is no medical care on board in an emergency, and the organizational effort is considerable.

With Holy-Days we break this barrier where there shouldn't be any, and make the impossible possible!