The “City.Zen” project aims to create a neighborhood where everyone feels seen, heard, and supported. Residents of refugee shelters in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg come together with the local community through shared activities and open dialogue. These interactions help build social bridges and foster a stronger sense of togetherness. At its core, the project promotes mutual understanding, and a trauma-sensitive, resilience-focused approach to individual experiences.

The aim of the project is to offer psychosocial support to as many people with refugee or migration background in Germany as possible – at a low threshold, digitally and individually.

Текст українською нижчеs Helfende Wände is an initiative of Wunderflats and the non-profit organization ProjectTogether. The project is jointly funded by the European Union and the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF). In this project, people offering accommodation are connected with..

After our IPSO Afghanistan NGO was founded, VBC was integrated into the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in 2011–2016 with support from the EU and the Federal Foreign Office. The state health system’s capacities improved considerably during this time, but they still showed great potential for expansion in view of the huge need for action. This is why we established our Psychosocial…

The “Gentle Project”, which has been implemented in Berlin accommodation since October 2022 with support from the State Office for Refugee Affairs and was expanded to include Ukrainian and Russian refugees in July 2023, provides the environment needed for dealing with the taboo topic of domestic violence. More LAF accommodations have been successively integrated and there were…

This project focuses on the advanced training of experienced Ukrainian psychologists in VBC and their subsequent employment (10 full-time positions) for providing psychosocial support to Ukrainians through individual counseling. The certified counselors work online from the care points in the asylum shelters and in Berlin as well as in large arrival centres such as Tegel Airport with around…

The aim of this work is to develop sustainable skills and structures by introducing low-threshold psychosocial support for refugees and people with a migration background in Hamburg, which will complement the psychosocial centers: low-threshold psychosocial support as an aid for self-help, which has an impact at individual, community and societal levels.

The many people who fled to Germany in 2015 and 2016 and – more recently – the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022, triggered an impressive wave of solidarity and support. As a humanitarian organisation that has developed the Value Based Counseling (VBC) method, an innovative form of support for people with flight and migration experiences who are counseled by…