
A book can be a bridge - support wanted for Frieda's library
DIAKOVERE gGmbH
- Disabled People
- Kids & Teenagers
- Seniors
- Education & Language Support
- Hands-on Activities
- Organisation & Administration
About the volunteering opportunity
Our volunteer-run patient library is looking for dedicated support to ensure opening hours!
If you have a passion for books and would like to provide other people with enjoyment and distraction through literature, then you've come to the right place!
If you have a passion for books and would like to provide other people with enjoyment and distraction through literature, then you've come to the right place!
Your Tasks
Accompanying the lending of books, organizing and setting up the library, purchasing new acquisitions/new books together as a team. If interested: Visiting patients in their rooms with the books.
What's needed
For this volunteering opportunity, basic German skills are required.
Interest in literature and books and openness to approach people.
Time required
We would like to open the library for at least one hour a day. A commitment of one hour/week helps us a lot! :-)
Where?
DIAKOVERE gGmbH

DIAKOVERE is Lower Saxony's largest non-profit organization in the health, social and education sectors. More than 5,400 people in around 90 different professions work at DIAKOVERE: in the three hospitals Annastift, Friederikenstift and Henriettenstift, including a rehabilitation facility, in youth, elderly and disabled care, palliative care and the hospice. DIAKOVERE also includes specialist schools for healthcare professions with 750 training places, an academy, a vocational training center for people with disabilities and an inclusive primary and secondary school. The annual turnover is 380 million euros. DIAKOVERE employees treat around 150,000 people in its three clinics every year; over a third of these are inpatients and almost two thirds are outpatients. As a diaconal company in the Protestant tradition, it is our mission to accompany people with dignity from birth to old age and into death.