Mentorship for refugees
Xenion
- Migrants & Refugees
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
About the volunteering opportunity
Building bridges instead of walls! In the mentoring program, mentors support their mentees (fugitives) in various areas.
Your Tasks
As a mentor, you accompany a refugee for at least one year and help overcome obstacles in everyday life - bureaucracy, lack of German language skills and lack of knowledge about "WHAT works HOW". The friendly relationship with a local, native-speaking confidant is especially important for the mentees. It conveys a valuable message of social acceptance to refugees. In many cases, the mentors are the only contacts to the "native" society for their mentees.
As a mentor, you can support them in the following areas, for example:
- Orientation in the city, building up a social network, dealing with other cultural ways of dealing with things
- Learning German, school (homework help, tutoring, supporting parents in contact with the school),
- Looking for accommodation, dealing with authorities and bureaucracy
- Search for work as well as further education and training opportunities
- Social space orientation / support offers
What's needed
Openness and empathy are important prerequisites for this voluntary work. Otherwise you do not need any previous knowledge or experience, but you should be willing to meet with your mentee on a weekly basis.
Time required
As a mentor you will spend three to four hours a week with your mentee
Start: Gladly immediately :)
Where?
Xenion
XENION - psychosocial help for politically persecuted people e.V. is a psychosocial treatment and counselling centre which was founded in 1986. In addition to various therapy offers and social counselling, we support particularly vulnerable refugees through our voluntary service programmes.
Project description: The mentoring programme arranges, qualifies and supports volunteer mentors for refugee families and adults.
Mentors take time for their mentees once a week over a period of one year. Throughout the project they are supported by the project coordination, can take part in further training on topics such as asylum and residence law and exchange ideas with other mentors at reflection rounds and regular meetings.