Seven-year-old Joshua seems to be lucky in adversity. The little Berliner has a serious lung disease that actually makes it impossible for him to go to school. But he can take part in the class: an avatar makes it possible. Joshua explains how his personal helper works, who embodies him as well as possible in the classroom: O-Ton: “He can call. And when I call, talk when I call. Then Ms. Bölkow (the class teacher – AdR) also gets a sign that I want to say something. For example, you look at me and I want to tell you something at school and report to you. Then you see on the avatar, on the head here, that I blink white “. Joshua was still at school when he started school. But then he couldn’t go to class, as his mother Simone Martinangeli explains: O-TON: “Because Joshua has a tracheostomy tube, Joshua. Joshua had to undergo an operation when he was one year old. And they said to us, either we put Joshua in a deep coma for three months or an incision in the trachea for at least two years. And then we said, now his family, we will do the incision in the trachea, because if Joshua would have woken up from the coma again, then everything would not have been as nice as it is now. “) JOSHUA (” Why? “) O-TON MOTHER SIMONE MARTINANGELI (” Because your head would have slept for a long time. And if your head had woken up again, Joshua would have been was even more sick than now. And that’s why mom said we’d do it. “) After the death of her husband shortly after the birth of Joshua, she was left with five children and struggled hard. She is therefore very happy that there is the Dandelion Elementary School in the Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf with its committed specialists, above all director Ute Winterberg. O-Ton: “The children talk to him, they laugh with him and one or the other time there is chatter in class. And Joshi is also very good at that.” His classmates confirm this – they can hardly say which they prefer – Joshua or the avatar: O-TON NOAH KÜßNER, CLASSMATE, (“I would prefer both because I like the avatar.”) O-TON BERITAN ASLANGLU, CLASSMATE (“And me, that Joshi really comes to school.”) To make all of this and even more possible, the district education authority has organized four avatars for the schools in the city district – an avatar from the Norwegian manufacturer “No Isolation “just under 20,000 euros. In addition, there were and are many organizational questions to be clarified, for example insurance and data protection. And what are the prospects for Joshua? Indeed, it will soon be time for Joshua to be personally back at his place in the class. Until then, however, everyone involved hopes that the school avatar will “go to school” as well as possible.