Fabian from Peitz: Brave struggle for education after brain tumor diagnosis

Fabian from Peitz: Brave struggle for education after brain tumor diagnosis

Peitz, Deutschland - The 17-year-old Fabian from Peitz faces great challenges: after a brain tumor diagnosis in childhood, he suffers from right-sided paralysis, epilepsy and concentration problems. Despite these enormous adversity, he strives to graduate from school. From April 2025, however, the financial support for his necessary integration assistant will be omitted, which makes his school days considerably more difficult. In order to collect the 15,000 euros required for the personnel costs, his father Detlef Stark started a call for donations on the “Gofundme” platform to enable Fabian a fair chance of education and a positive future, such as Niederlausitz currently reported.

Fabian is currently in the 10th grade and lives in the small town of Peitz in Südbrandenburg. At the age of only 7, he was diagnosed with a hen-sized brain tumor, which was surgically removed and treated with radio and chemotherapy for 457 days. This treatment not only left him physical restrictions, but also led to serious concentration and performance fluctuations. He also needs support in everyday school life because his parents often have to fight for the provision of an integration helper at the social welfare office.

call to support

From April 11, 2025, Fabian should cope without the urgently needed help in the school environment. The social welfare office will have promised not to be able to offer support. The call for donations is intended to help Fabian receive the accompaniment he needs to be able to learn motivated and in a safe environment. The aim is to get the 15,000 euros for the integration assistant together and thus give him a realistic chance of a carefree school time.

In addition to Fabian's story, the problem of assumption of costs for integration helpers in students with epilepsy and disability is treated in another source. According to epiaktuell , the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia has clarified in an important decision that disabled students from social assistance for one Integration helpers can claim what is of great importance in cases like Fabians.

-transmitted by West-Ost-Medien