Buddy Bear Help is a children's aid organisation founded in Berlin in 2004 by Eva Herlitz together with several international artists.
guarantees that 100 per cent of the donations and auction revenues from charity activities is used for the selected children's projects.
Furat al Jamil, an artist from Iraq, who designed the bears for her country for the United Buddy Bears project, wanted to help, with the support of Buddy Bär Berlin GmbH, a five-year-old boy in Baghdad who had a tumor behind his eye and the surgical removal of which was not possible in Baghdad.
To send a political message at the time of the Iraq War, one of the founding members of the club was Marsha Coats (wife of U.S.
Among other things, the financing of heart surgeries for children in La Paz (Bolivia) was secured, a school project for Maasai in Tanzania was implemented, in 2009 the construction of a school for AIDS orphans in Tepa Tepa, a small village near Lake Malawi, was completed.