Allgemein
Under the title “Volltreffer Familie” (“Goal for the Family”), Connecting Hearts and SC Victoria Hamburg organized two family days at Billwerder correctional facility in Hamburg, Germany. A project that takes new approaches to supporting families affected by imprisonment.
The aim was to give children and their parents time together in a setting shaped by movement, play, and joy rather than formal visits. The well-known Hamburg sports club SC Victoria Lokstedt, brought 18 children aged two to thirteen – accompanied by mothers and grandparents – for a special sports day with their fathers inside the prison.
Families enjoyed football, yoga, and obstacle games, creating moments of lightness and togetherness. “We wanted to give the children a day where they can simply be with their fathers and have fun,” said Dominik Ziegenhahn, board member of SC Victoria, who joined the older kids for football while his wife led activities for the younger ones.
A second family day for incarcerated mothers followed – again focusing on time together, play, and connection.
Oliver Drews, founder of the Connecting Hearts Foundation, emphasized: “Volltreffer Familie shows how sport can build bridges – between parents and children, but also between institutions working together in new ways.”
The newspager Hamburger Abendblatt reported on the initiative, which demonstrates that meaningful connection can begin in unexpected places – sometimes even on a football field behind prison walls.
