1 % of the sales price of every Foondiert® product sold is donated to the NCL-Stiftung, for a future without childhood dementia.

Dementia is a disease that we associate with getting older. Most people are unaware that it can also affect children. Around 700 children in Germany and some 70,000 children worldwide suffer from neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), an incurable terminal disorder, better known as childhood dementia. Children who have the juvenile form of dementia, known as CLN3, begin to lose their sight during their first years at school and become completely blind within one to three years. They forget what they have already learned and their cognitive and motor skills gradually and continually deteriorate. Not only do these children lose their ability to speak and walk unaided, they are also afflicted with epileptic seizures until, aged between 25 and 30, they succumb to the disease.