Volunteers accompany refugees: Your neighborhood, your everyday life (Dein Leipzig)
Kontaktstelle Wohnen
- Migrants & Refugees
- Democracy & Human Rights
- Education & Language Support
- Equal Opportunities
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
- Poverty Reduction
- Sports & Leisure Activities
- Ukraine-Aid
About the volunteering opportunity
We are looking for volunteers and refugees for our project: Your neighborhood, your everyday life!
Volunteers accompany refugees after they move in.
We provide support in everyday life for six months:
Volunteers accompany refugees after they move in.
We provide support in everyday life for six months:
- with organizational and bureaucratic issues
- speaking German
- getting to know the new neighborhood
- finding your way around the new apartment
At the end there is a certificate of participation.
Your Tasks
- regular meetings in the neighborhood for six months (e.g. every 2 weeks for 90 minutes)
- Participation in training
- Voluntary: participation in group meetings, volunteer meetings, supervision
If you have any problems, ideas or queries, you can always contact the project coordinator!
What's needed
For this volunteering opportunity, advanced German skills are required.
For volunteers who want to support refugees:
- very good knowledge of German
- confident handling of smartphones, messengers/emails, online appointments
- Reliability
- Communication skills
- an advantage: knowledge of foreign languages
- very good knowledge of German
- confident handling of smartphones, messengers/emails, online appointments
- Reliability
- Communication skills
- an advantage: knowledge of foreign languages
Time required
Regularly
Discussed individually
Location
Kontaktstelle Wohnen
The Housing Contact Point has been advising and supporting refugees in their search for their own housing in Leipzig and answering questions about tenancies since 2016. Our services counteract structural barriers such as language, bureaucracy and racial discrimination on the housing market.