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Elisabeth Norgall Award Elisabeth Norgall Award 2006:Stella Deetjen
She felt a strong desire to help. From a Swiss doctor she learnt that leprosy can be cured and that a treatment only costs 2 Dollars per patient per month. The doctor gave her 100 Dollars which she used to buy medicine to distribute among the lepers. Donations she received enabled her to help more and more patients. Meanwhile the lepers waited for her on the street every day. This was the beginning in 1996 of the so-called street clinic where the patients received their daily supply of medicine. The child welfare project to which she devotes all her energy has developed from the leprosy project. Some of the children she knew from birth as babies of lepers. She learnt that the street children ran wild and that the arms of some of them had hot oil poured over them, because crippled children begging generate more sympathy. Boys and girls were being raped in the streets during the night. Professional beggars sell the kidneys from orphans. With all her heart she desired to change this situation. So, also in 1996 she founded the “Little Stars School” together with some helpers. From 36 pupils in the beginning the number of children in the school rose to 350. However, in the meantime an Indian organization has taken charge of this project. In order to give her project a greater platform and to receive more donations it was necessary to establish a non-profit-making organization, which she did (Back to Life e. V.). At the end of 1999 she initiated the “Kid’s Club” where children aged from 2 to 14 years can stay in safe surroundings during the day and can escape the dangers of the streets. They can have their meals there, do their homework, play and attend to their hobbies. A doctor and a nurse visit on a regular basis. In the summer of 2003 she opened a children’s home in a rented house. Here the street children found a home for the first time in their life; they slept in real beds, received regular meals and went to school. Stella Deetjen protected them from violence, abuse and child work. In 2004 she had the opportunity to buy a piece of land with a 3-storey building on it. However, to finance this was a great problem. Luckily a television talk show with Jörg Pilawa in December 2004 and the following press reports resulted in public attention and financial support. Gundel Lienemann
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