Accompaniment of the handicraft group "Hanan

The women's handicrafts group "Hanan" has emerged from an initiative. Refugee women want to sew, knit, crochet etc. together. Some are already better at it and help others to gain their first handicraft experience. It is about exchange, being creative together and making contacts. The women gain more self-confidence, come into contact with other women and can thus participate more in social life.

The group size is usually between 6 and 10 women.

Your Tasks

If you would like to get involved in the handicraft group, then the following activities could become your tasks:

• participate as a German native speaker once a week in the handicraft group, talk to the women, make contacts, ...
• if the women bring their children, child care if necessary
• Listen to the needs and questions of the women and report back to the project leader
• develop own ideas and creatively develop the handicraft group further
• make the group even more international

What's needed

You don't really need much. Here are a few points that would be important:

• German as mother tongue or C1 level
• you are a woman*
• you have fun and enjoy intercultural encounters
• you don't have to have special handicraft skills, but if you are interested in e.g. sewing, it doesn't hurt either

Time required

Our weekly meetings are usually held on Fridays between 14:00 and 16:00.

Important notice

Since the women often bring their children with them, we need an extended certificate of good conduct from you. As a volunteer, there are no costs for you for the application.

The current Corona regulations also apply to the project. Please bring a G-proof with you.

Der Paritätische is committed to the idea of social justice, understood as the right of every human being to equal opportunities to realise his or her life in dignity and to develop his or her personality. Der Paritätische supports social commitment for others and the commitment to one's own social concerns.

The project "Begegnungen im Stadtteil", with its talk cafés, brings together old and new residents of Cottbus who call Cottbus home. Intercultural encounters, getting to know each other, asking questions, making friends - all this is important for peaceful and tolerant coexistence.