Support people on their way to a new home
SBW Berlin
- Homeless People
- Seniors
- Equal Opportunities
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
- Organisation & Administration
About the volunteering opportunity
following the Housing First approach, we offer secure, free accommodation for up to six months and support our guests on their way to an independent life and their own apartment.
Many of our guests have been living without a permanent home for a long time. Your support helps them to find stability, orientation and a home again.
Your Tasks
- Spending time with our guests (e.g. chatting over coffee or tea)
- Listening and providing emotional support
- Support in finding accommodation (online research, accompanying to appointments if necessary)
- Help with forms and authorities (e.g. WBS application, simple administrative tasks)
- Promoting everyday structure and social participation
What's needed
- German language skills (ideally B2, at least B1-B2 helpful)
- Empathy and openness
- Reliability
- Interest in working with older people (60+)
Time required
The working hours are generally Monday to Friday between 9:00 and 17:00 and can be arranged individually.
Location
SBW Berlin
SBW Berlin supports educational projects all over the world. With our SBW Berlin Scholarship, we contribute to the international advancement and dissemination of education and knowledge.
We award scholarships to young talents from abroad who have already shown civil engagement in their home country and who are coming from a financially disadvantaged family background. With our scholarship, we enable them to pursue a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Germany (Berlin or Potsdam). In special cases we also fund professional training instead.
Our scholarship recipients will apply the knowledge, they acquire during their studies in Germany, in their work on their and new social, non-profit projects in their home countries. They often work in the education sector.
One of the most important requiremnts of the SBW Berlin scholarship is the SBW Berlin scholarship recipients’ intention to return and recide in their home countries for at least 18 months after the completition of their studies. Thus, from the begining of the scholarship, SBW Berlin supports all scholarships recipients to realize their professional goals in their home countries. This is done through networking with other organizations, throught SBW Berlin´s assistance with targeted job searches in the scholarship recipients´ home countries and with the preparation of job materials thereafter. In addition, all developend social non-profit projects should have strong connections with the scholarship recipients´ home countries.
In addition to our SBW Berlin scholarship, we also support educational projects in Bulgaria, India, Kenya, Colombia, Mexico, and Nicaragua