Create and shape personal encounters between people with and without newcomer background and become part of our mediation / event or PR team
Start with a Friend e.V.
- Migrants & Refugees
- Equal Opportunities
- Mentoring, Sponsoring & Career Coaching
- Organisation & Administration
- Ukraine-Aid
About the volunteering opportunity
Start with a Friend e.V. (SwaF) is a non-profit association with 23 project locations nationwide. Our vision is a society that lives its diversity. To achieve this, we create personal encounters between people with and without newcomer background. Through exchange and joint commitment, we strengthen people, social cohesion & democracy.
You want to work for a society that excludes no one? You want to bring people in contact with each other and engage yourself for openness and tolerance? Do you enjoy meeting new people and exchanging ideas? Then you've come to the right place!
Start with a Friend arranges tandem friendships between people with and without newcomer background. It is especially important to us that we meet at eye level, so that everyone in our community feels comfortable and friendships can develop.
Your Tasks
To make this work even better, we're looking for people who want to...
... get to know many different people
... bring people together in tandems and support them with their questions
... organize events for a diverse community
... further promote Start with a Friend and grow our network
You can join the team in the following areas:
The Placement Team
- Conducts intake interviews with interested parties who would like to start a tandem
- Organizes the info night for new locals
- Checks who would be a good fit for a tandem together
- Makes contact between the tandem partners
- Supervises the tandem and is there, if the tandems have questions
The event team
- Organizes a community event at least once a month
- Organizes a regulars' table once a month
- Keeps in touch with the community and provides lots of swaf Spirit
The PR Team
- Makes Swaf more known in your city
- Takes care of media contributions
- Starts collaborations
- Organizes info booths and pitches
If this sounds exciting to you, just drop us a line and we'll tell you everything else that's important during a get-to-know-you conversation.
We look forward to meeting you!
What's needed
Otherwise, no previous experience is necessary. Our team welcomes every new team member with open arms - shape the society we want to live in.
Time required
Feel free to bring as much time as you'd like.
Where?
Start with a Friend e.V.
