From the Kinderhaus Husby to a digital platform

How the daily work of running a youth welfare facility grew, over three decades, into a software and consulting firm.

In 1993, Christine and Reiner Korneffel took responsibility for something greater than any company: the well-being of children. With the Kinderhaus Husby they founded their own youth welfare facility – and quickly reached a limit familiar to many providers. More and more time was being absorbed by documentation, records and administration. Time that should really have belonged to the young people.

This everyday problem turned into an idea. In 1998, the first computer-supported quality management system was developed in-house. Two years later, in 2000, Reiner Korneffel founded Daarwin Beratungsgesellschaft mbH to make this solution available to all social-sector organisations. The QM-Center brought together what had previously lived in separate worlds: administration, care work and support in a single piece of software.

In 2007, Daarwin was among the first providers to offer a comprehensive administration solution for youth welfare nationwide. In the years that followed, it was repeatedly honoured with the Innovationspreis-IT – recognition that this was not technology for technology's sake, but technology born of genuine practical need.

In 2017, Reiner Korneffel drew a line under one chapter and opened another at the same time: he stepped away from Daarwin and founded Korneffel Beratungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH. The software lives on today as myneva.daarwin within the myneva group, supporting more than 500 customers across the DACH region.

But the story was not over. In 2020, all this accumulated experience flowed into a new generation of software: KoJu24 – cloud-based, rentable, GDPR-compliant and AI-supported. The common thread across three decades has always remained the same: technology as a tool, people at the centre.