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History
Pax Kinderhulp’s activities started back in 1961, when a working group of the Pax Christi Peace movement went to Berlin. It decided to give refugee children in the city the chance to recover in the Netherlands.
This was the origin of the ‘Children of Berlin’ working group and in 1972 the foundation ‘Stichting Pax Christi Kinderhulp’ was founded. From then on, their basic principle was ‘to offer help to foreign children in need’.
Initially Pax Christi Kinderhulp operated from Berlin, but in 1979 for the first time children from Northern Ireland came to the Netherlands. Five years later Polish children were also offered a holiday here and in 1991 children from Armenia and (former) Yugoslavia also came to the Netherlands.
Each year, several committees do all they can to get children to the Netherlands for the holiday of a lifetime.

...for the children...

Pax Kinderhulp (Aid for Children) Pax Kinderhulp concerns itself with the fate of children in foreign countries who live in dire circumstances. Children from mainly European countries where living conditions have been affected by war, violence, poverty or a (natural) disaster are offered a holiday.
Through its aims and activities, Pax Kinderhulp aspires to contribute to peace, freedom and solidarity. Pax Kinderhulp believes in the good in mankind.
The children are lodged with guest families in the Netherlands or in holiday homes in an idyllic setting. Pax Kinderhulp offers these children the chance to be a normal child for a while, with the hope that this will encourage the children to believe in a better future.