Day 15

30 minutes language course and childcare for a family in Germany

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30 minutes language course and childcare for a family in Germany
Day 15
Participation through education

Being able to speak a language is the basis for participating in society. Sharam from Iran is of the same opinion: without knowledge of German, he cannot find an apprenticeship, a job, or an opportunity to actively participate in everyday life. His experiences with potential employers reflect this: despite his 8 years of work experience as a carpenter in Iran, he does not have the impression that he has a chance of getting a job or an apprenticeship in Germany unless he can demonstrate sufficient knowledge of German. Sharam knows that he now has the chance to learn German very well and thus find a job. Fortunately, there are many opportunities to attend language courses in Germany. But that alone is not enough for him. After all, he cannot simply leave his young son at home alone. So that he can learn German quickly, he needs childcare for the time he spends on the language course. Without a job, he cannot really afford something like that.

Participation through education
need
Access to education and language opportunities for people who are excluded from educational opportunities.
activity
Volunteer teachers give German lessons. At the same time, the children of the course participants are looked after.
Measurable performance
Number of course minutes and people participating in the German courses with childcare.
Result
People are improving their German skills.
Systemically relevant impact
The participation of people with refugee experience in society is improved and educational and career opportunities are increased.
background

Many people are forced to leave their home country to seek protection in other countries. This is particularly the case when there is war in their home countries. Many people are politically persecuted because governments do not respect people's civil rights and freedoms and they are politically persecuted. In 2018, 1.1 million refugees who had received protection lived in Germany alone (Media Service Integration, 2019). Since the end of the Second World War, the Geneva Conventions have formed the basis for people seeking protection to be accepted in other countries in times of war. 196 countries have currently acceded to the Geneva Conventions. But there are also many people who have to leave their country for reasons that are not, or at least not clearly, regulated by the Geneva Conventions, or who have not yet been officially granted the right to asylum. These people have an unclear residence status.

People with an unclear residence status and little chance of being able to stay in Germany long-term have more difficult access to free educational opportunities such as language courses. This particularly affects people from Afghanistan and West African countries. A residence status indicates whether a person is still in an ongoing asylum procedure (residence permit) or whether deportation has been temporarily suspended for various reasons, e.g. due to vocational training (tolerated stay). In the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district, 1,590 people with a residence permit and 585 people with a tolerated stay live. (Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald District Office, 2019). Due to their unclear residence status, many of these people have greater difficulty finding a language course that they can afford with their often limited financial means. In addition, there are often not enough courses in rural areas or attending a language course is difficult to reconcile with childcare. However, sufficient language skills are particularly important for successful training or further education and pave the way to an independent life in a new country.

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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The good deed

Your good deed today enables free German courses from literacy to B2 level by volunteer teachers. This gives adult refugees with unclear residency status and children, who often have difficulty accessing free language courses, the opportunity to improve their German skills. At the same time, childcare is provided to make it easier for families to participate and to actively involve their children in the program. Participants can thus concentrate fully on learning the language while their children are looked after. The good deed counteracts social isolation and connects people from different cultural backgrounds.

AboutGermany
Berlin
Berlin
Capital city
82,100,000
82,100,000
Population
46.136
46.136
Gross domestic product per capita per year
Rank 5 of 189
Rank 5 of 189
Human Development Index (Human Development Index)

With around 82 million inhabitants, Germany is the most populous country in the European Union. 1.1 million people are recognized refugees.