B.F.A. Bildung für alle

Freiburg

The founder of the B.F.A. association, Gerd Schneider, contacted the Ursula-Wandres-Foundation in 2017. Since Ursula Wandres had also experienced that many of the refugees, even with toleration, are not entitled to a free German language course, she was enthusiastic about the association's concept and therefore supports its work and commitment.

www.bfa-freiburg.de

Photo Credits: Felix Groteloh

Inifo e.V.

Marktoberdorf

Since 2015, we have been supporting the association "inifo" with its headquarters in Marktoberdorf. This association was founded in March 2015 with the aim of offering support and assistance to refugees in Marktoberdorf and the Ostallgäu region. The focus is primarily on enabling young refugees to access the education and training system. In addition to language courses, literacy courses, vocational orientation courses and life orientation courses are offered. In order to be able to run the courses and to have a place for personal meetings, premises have been rented in Marktoberdorf.
Since the association does not receive any support from the municipality and is therefore dependent on donations, the Ursula-Wandres-Foundation has agreed to take over the costs for the premises.

www.inifo.de

Music & Theatre projects for teenager

Die Kurve e.V./Freiburg

The music and theatre project of the Gertrud-Luckner-Gewerbeschule is carried out with classes from the AV dual (dual training preparation) and VaBo classes (young refugees) and promotes skills that these young people were not able to acquire in order to make the upcoming transition from school to training and working life. The goals focus on perseverance, the formation of an appropriate positive self-esteem, the development of social skills, a sense of responsibility and overcoming language barriers. In 2023, the project took place for the first time with the participation of a cooperative class with pupils with intellectual disabilities.
The project was carried out annually before the corona pandemic and has been supported by the Ursula-Wandres-Foundation since 2016.

https://www.kurve-org.de/jugendsozialarbeit.html

https://www.kurve-org.de/index.html

Welcome Office Lesvos – Welcome Office Lesvos Borderline

2018/19, 2022, 2023

The Welcome Office Lesvos supports refugees and migrants on Lesvos in the following areas: Low-threshold social counseling (help with applications, housing searches, visits to the doctor), initial care after arrival by boat and forwarding to initial registration, education for young refugees (school replacement), public relations and networking.

The organization has been active in Lesvos since 2019. In 2023, the NGO was founded under the name Welcome Office Lesvos, prior to which there was a cooperation with Borderline Europe - Menschenrechte ohne Grenzen e.V., an association that has been active on the Greek island since 2015 and supports refugees.

https://welcomeofficelesvos.org/
https://borderlinelesvos.org

Photo Credits: Welcome Office-Borderline Lesvos and Office Borderline Lesvos

The Blackademy

2024

The Blackademy e.V. is a community-based association that implements educational and empowerment projects. The association acts as a platform for Afro-diasporic expertise in order to turn the multi-layered and rich history and stories, skills and stories of the Black communities in Berlin into empowering moments.

The association sees itself as an interface between individuals, national and international (civil society) institutions engaged in all aspects of community life to empower youth, young adults and their families within the Black community.

By supporting the development of swimming courses for young people from the Black community, the organization supported an important project in the area of empowerment and participation.

blackademyberlin.com

Photo Credits: The Blackademy

Q Collective

2022/2023

The Q Collective is a monthly meeting place for young people (13-20 years old) who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, non-binary and/or queer, and/or question their gender identity and sexual orientation (LGBTQ+). The Q collective offers a protected space where contacts are made with other queer young people, mutual exchange takes place, empowerment and the diversity of life paths becomes visible.

The Q Collective follows an informal, self-directed approach that adapts to the needs and wishes of the participants and allows them to actively shape the space. In addition, events and workshops on e.g. mental and sexual health, empowerment or self-defence are offered. The programme also offers the opportunity to learn about current and historical LGBTQ+ issues through guest speakers, films, art and more. New perspectives will be highlighted. At the same time, the program offers anti-discrimination workshops to schools in Berlin that specifically focus social identities, gender and sexuality.

Photo credits: Q Collective

Festival dokumentART

2019/2021

As a European film festival in Neubrandenburg, the 28th "dokumentART – films & future“ and  29th "dokumentART – films & future“ presented documentaries, but also animation and experimental films, dedicated to the topic of the future in different ways for five days: How do we want to live – today and in the next decades – here and elsewhere? The focus is increasingly on topics such as integration, demographic change and ecological sustainability.

https://www.dokumentart.org/festival-2019

Deutscher Gehörlosen-Sportverband e.V.

2019

The German Deaf Women's National Futsal Team took part in the Deaf Futsal World Championship in Winterthur/Switzerland in November 2019. As the BMI only partly financed the participation in the World Championship, the Ursula-Wandres-Foundation helped with a one-time sponsorship. 

www.dgs-fussball.de

Die Bühne

2018/19

Gerswalde (Uckermark)

The performative exhibition project DIE BUEHNE functions as a forum for addressing social, aesthetic and ecological issues. Located in the countryside of Gerswalde, the programme offers artists:inside space for an interdisciplinary discourse and for questioning the meaning of artistic practices today.

https://www.diebuehne.org/

Extremity II Open Wounds

Display, Berlin/2017

The artists Katharina Ludwig & Shira Wachsmann deal with wounds and traumas in their exhibition. Wounded bodies, wounds of nations, communities and humanity are juxtaposed and asked: what if these wounds remained open? By which the sources would remain recognisable. 

http://display-berlin.com/extremity-ii/

Photo Credit: Chroma Istanbul

I:project space at Loris

Berlin/2017

The exhibition deals with the post-factual world. This multi-layered, complex and sometimes only subjective view of the world, which is fed by bits of information from the internet. The artists visualise multiple possibilities, alternative perspectives on our realities and point out how realities are constructed and can be obstructed or manipulated. Viewers are encouraged to rearrange their perspectives, think critically about our perceptions and construct their own points of view.

https://yi-projectspace.org/

Zuflucht Müllheim e.V.

Support of the team „Huckepack und das Sprachcafe“.

http://zuflucht-müllheim.de