Future4kids is a non-profit Austrian association that aims to give children and young people from precarious backgrounds a better future through education and job creation in Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in the world. We also want to raise people’s awareness of environmental and species protection in Rwanda so that sustainable development can take place.

In 1994, Rwanda was ravaged by a devastating civil war and genocide. What remained was a devastated country with hundreds of thousands of orphans. The bitter poverty and misery of many vulnerable and helpless children was and is overwhelming. In 2011 we spontaneously decided to take on responsibility and founded the Future For Kids association – a small, Austrian development aid association that promotes and looks after children and young people on a small, manageable scale. We help children whose future would be uncertain without help, support the former indigenous people, the Batwa, in agriculture, create jobs for the people of Rwanda and accompany young mothers on their way to independence. Rwanda being one of the poorest countries in the world but with the fastest growing economy . The (founder of Future4Kids – Otto Fischer) developed a special dismay about Rwanda when he traveled to Rwanda in 2007 and faced enormous hopelessness.

This situation prompted him to sponsor several orphans and to get to know the country and its people better. Rwanda is a country where it is not a matter of course to have access to free education or just to have a “normal” childhood – a prerequisite for more equal opportunities and justice. For him as a sponsor, he sees it as an obligation to create and maintain this equal opportunity. his work in Rwanda is driven by parents’ desire to give their children a better life and to give them a future and hope.

During hiswork in Rwanda, he realized that Rwanda also faces a global issue: it’s the extinction of species. This is particularly noteworthy because the last living mountain gorillas live in Rwanda. It has become a heart project for me to contribute to their protection.