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The fanciful and colorful paintings by the artists of the Anouk Foundation create a soothing and comforting environment in the service and reduce children’s fears before treatment.

Dr Roger Lauener, Medical Director of the Childrens Hospital, St Gallen, Switzerland

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The project makes a significant contribution to create a pleasant atmosphere in our hospital, in which patients, family members and staff feel a sense of well-being. The children, families and we ourselves delight every day in your beautiful murals! They are a true gem in our children’s hospital.

Brigitta Oertle, Head of Nursing, Children’s Hospital St. Gallen, Switzerland

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All these games painted on the walls by Anouk artists are very useful and fun for children. When a children look at the maze game on the wall in the waiting room, it will keep them busy for a long time. These wall games are also a gain of space, practicality and aestheticism. The visual and colourful images create a positive impression when the patient arrives in the ward, whether adult or child.

Stéphanie Fernandes Vercruysse, Head nurse at GHOL Paediatrics, Nyon, Switzerland

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The pillars and staircase in the main atrium of the hospital were transformed into warm and cheerful designs incorporating NHSGGC values of comfort, joy, love, nurturing, teamwork, listening, caring, playing, family and safety. For many, the main atrium is their first experience of a hospital environment, and it was really important for the Charity that this space created a reassuring impression.

Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity Consolidated Report and Financial Statements 2017

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Congratulations to the Anouk Foundation for its activities, the added value can easily be seen on the faces of children, patients and loved ones.

Fondation privée des HUG

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Today, the ward is adapted for children and adolescents. Our ward is much more welcoming. The patients are delighted, and it is a much better work environment.

Sereina Brooks, Head of Paediatric Nursing, Kantonsspital Chur, Switzerland

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Oncology

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Many of our young patients come regularly to follow their treatment at the clinic. The murals help them connect their hospital stay to their home life. The colors and themes attract the attention of the children, not only contributing to their development, but also encouraging interactions and, hopefully, their speedy recovery.

Dr Hanneke de Ridder, Chair of the Peadiatric Oncology Foundation (until 2021), Netherlands

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With gratitude and joy we thank you for all the unique murals! The murals are very important for the well-being of the children and therefore a big added value. It brings so much in their lives: colour, happiness, distraction and joy. This quality art is unique and valuable for everyone in the Princes Maxima Centre. For the children, their families, as well for people working and visiting.

Mijpe Pekelder, Project leader of the ‘Art Commission’ with ‘Children’s Advisory Board’ of Prinses Máxima Centrum, Utrecht, Netherlands

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Imaging

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When they are afraid, we can distract them with the characters on the walls. Our doctors and nurses enjoy gaining the children’s confidence and distracting the patients through the paintings. For parents, it is a relief when they see that their child does not have to suffer so much. All of this makes it easier for us to work with both younger and older patients.

Dr Rainer Wolf, Medical Director of Paediatric Imaging ward, University Hospital Bern (Inselspital), Switzerland

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Anouk Foundation transformed the bare clinical walls of the Department with therapeutic murals, creating a warm, soothing and welcoming space. It makes it feel like a children’s hospital.

Imaging team, Children’s Hospital, Glasgow, UK

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Anouk Foundation created fun games on the walls for the children with our mascots and a reassuring passage to the daunting MRI room.

Dr Andrea Righini, Director of Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology Department, Ospedale dei Bambini Vittorio Buzzi, Milan, Italy

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Our children and their families greatly admire your work. According to staff, the number of children who need anesthesia before an MRI has decreased. The warm and cheerful atmosphere helps reduce the negative impact of treatment. Parents feel more confident, less anxious, and work to reassure their child. This has a very positive effect on the course of treatment.

Cecília Galvão de Azevedo, Head of Communications Department

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The murals help the staff to calm the children’s fear and stress.

Jeanine Clapsaddle, Director, Pediatric Potential

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Psychiatry

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The walls help us to communicate with families from various cultures coming to us for consultations. They help us talk about and pass on messages about the importance of ‘being together’. The murals also give the small children the chance to touch them adding an extra dimension.

Dr Nathalie Nanzer, Head of ‘Psychiatric Infant guidance’ at HUG, Geneva, Switzerland

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Anouk’s intervention improves the atmosphere and therefore the well-being of patients and their families when they arrive at our unit, and during waiting times. The designs fuel the curiosity of the little ones and receive the compliments from the big ones. It gives us support to engage in conversation about emotions.

Dr Dante Trojan, Deputy Chief Physician for Adolescent Psychiatry at HUG, Geneva, Switzerland

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Emergency

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The effect of the paintings on the patients and their families, but also on the staff, is impressive: the paintings spread a positive mood, acting as an eye-catcher and distraction, as a stimulus for conversation and the imagination, they help with orientation in the corridors.

Dr Traudel Saurenmann, Director of the Children and Adolescent Clinic, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Switzerland

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With the engaging Anouk drawings, the positive impact and feelings emanated from them is very consistent : now the hospital environment is less aggressive.

Children’s psychologist, Dona Estefânia Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal

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Your paintings help to bring a better communication between children and the medical staff. It’s a good way to distract stressed children. Now the walls ‘talk’ to the children conveying to them serenity and some bliss. The artists did all the paintings on the walls under the watchful eyes of fascinated children and parents.

Dr Mario Coelho, Head Paediatric Emergency Doctor, Dona Estefânia Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal

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The therapeutic walls soften a place where no one wants to be. Butterflies, birds and bees are now all over our walls and welcome the children and youth in our department. I am very happy with the paintings, it was a dream that seemed quite difficult to achieve, especially due to the pandemic

Dr Luisa Preto, Head of Paediatric Emergency, Centro Hospitalar Oeste, Caldas da Raihna, Portugal

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Bringing us happiness in difficult times.

Nuno, Nurse, Centro Hospitalar Oeste, Caldas da Raihna, Portugal

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Thank you, our newly renovated ward benefits from a unique underwater world. Parents can distract their children through the murals when unpleasant procedures are imminent. The fun drawings make waiting for treatment less frightening. Nurses and medical staff now use the murals as a tool to engage with anxious patients.

Martina Gfeller, Head Nurse of Paediatric Emergency ward, University Hospital Bern (Inselspital), Switzerland

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Special needs centres

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The Anouk Foundation project has brought more positive emotions and comfort to the Pertuis Shelter. Nearly a year after the completion of the project, we see for example that the playroom is being used more frequently. It is clearly more welcoming, and parents are more engaged with their children! Today, beneficiaries are more often sitting on the floor and interacting with their little ones.

Laetitia Buchet, Deputy Director, Foyer Pertuis, FOJ, Geneva, Switzerland

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Anouk artists created tools for us to share and remind the youngsters of our values and to give them new perspectives.

Patricia Amann, Director, Maison Kelas, FOJ Geneva, Switzerland

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The idea to have mural paintings stems from external observations. We understood that mural paintings are a great way of making the children’s day-to-day lives easier and more agreeable. Our children enjoy the mural paintings: they often interact with the paintings – they relax and intrigue them, they raise questions. We see a very clear impact.

Jean-Pierre Counet, Director Special Needs School Auguste Buchet, Etoy, Switzerland

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We are very grateful to you for bringing joy and happiness in those premises where our loved ones are being cared for for various health issues, especially autism… Thank you from the bottom of our heart for all the good this project can bring to people with disabilities! Thank you from all of us who work and live at Nid Marin.

Parent of a patient

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Special needs centres mural painted by Anouk

Youth

General Paediatrics

Testimonials

The fanciful and colorful paintings by the artists of the Anouk Foundation create a soothing and comforting environment in the service and reduce children’s fears before treatment.

The project makes a significant contribution to create a pleasant atmosphere in our hospital, in which patients, family members and staff feel a sense of well-being. The children, families and we ourselves delight every day in your beautiful murals! They are a true gem in our children’s hospital.

Congratulations to the Anouk Foundation for its activities, the added value can easily be seen on the faces of children, patients and loved ones.

Today, the ward is adapted for children and adolescents. Our ward is much more welcoming. The patients are delighted, and it is a much better work environment.

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Oncology

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Oncology room

Oncology room mural

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Oncology room painted mural

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Oncology Anouk painter in a room

Imaging

Testimonials

Anouk Foundation transformed the bare clinical walls of the Department with therapeutic murals, creating a warm, soothing and welcoming space. It makes it feel like a children’s hospital.

Anouk Foundation created fun games on the walls for the children with our mascots and a reassuring passage to the daunting MRI room.

The murals help the staff to calm the children’s fear and stress.

Imaging mural

Imaging treatment room

Imaging treatment room mural

Imaging treatment room mural colorful

Imaging treatment room mural colorful Anouk

Psychiatry

Testimonials

The walls help us to communicate with families from various cultures coming to us for consultations. They help us talk about and pass on messages about the importance of ‘being together’. The murals also give the small children the chance to touch them adding an extra dimension.

Psychiatry mural

Psychiatry mural waiting room

Psychiatry mural being painted

Psychiatry mural finished

Emergency

Testimonials

The effect of the paintings on the patients and their families, but also on the staff, is impressive: the paintings spread a positive mood, acting as an eye-catcher and distraction, as a stimulus for conversation and the imagination, they help with orientation in the corridors.

With the engaging Anouk drawings, the positive impact and feelings emanated from them is very consistent : now the hospital environment is less aggressive.

The therapeutic walls soften a place where no one wants to be. Butterflies, birds and bees are now all over our walls and welcome the children and youth in our department. I am very happy with the paintings, it was a dream that seemed quite difficult to achieve, especially due to the pandemic

Bringing us happiness in difficult times.

Emergency room

Emergency room painted

Emergency room painted mural

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Emergency room painted mural hospital Anouk foundation

Emergency room examination

Emergency room examination painted

Emergency hallway painted

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Emergency room finished mural

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Special needs centres

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