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| Volunteers

In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the United Nations World Refugee Day, we’d like to introduce you to Sofía from Paraguay. Sofía spent a year as a weltwärts volunteer working at Café International in the German town of Düren, not far from Cologne. Run by the local protestant church, the café provides advice for refugees and migrants on matters concerning asylum, residence rights and welfare benefits.

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| Volunteers

Every year on 1 June, children and specifically children's rights are celebrated around the world. On this occasion, we would like to introduce you to a volunteer from the South-North programme: Joseline from Uganda decided to do her volunteer service with In Via in a school in Germany and shares some of her experiences with us.

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| Organisations

Having been floated in recent years, the idea of a weltwärts partners’ newsletter from the joint operation was approved at the PSC meeting last December and the first issue will be out soon.

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| Volunteers

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, choosing to volunteer with weltwärts is still a good decision with hopes high that more volunteer assignments will be able to take place as the year progresses – both in Germany and in the Global South.

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| Exchanges

Due to existing travel and safety warnings, no international personal encounters have been able to take place within the grant programme wwB since the beginning of the Corona pandemic. However, personal encounters can be resumed if the following criteria are met.

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| Exchanges

Since the beginning of the grant programme four years ago, weltwärts-Begegnungen (wwB) has developed positively as a popular extracurricular exchange format and has grown continually. In recognition of this, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) has decided to transfer the wwB grant programme, a key supporting pillar of international youth exchanges more broadly, into a new German-African Youth Office. The Youth Office is currently being set up and will sit under the Engagement Global umbrella.

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| About weltwärts

The public reports on the 2019 volunteer surveys are online now. This year, for the first time, a South-North volunteer survey was carried out in addition to the North-South volunteer survey.

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| Organisations

Germany’s Federal Foreign Office has revoked its global travel warning with effect from 1 October 2020. As a result, provided compliance with specified strict criteria is ensured, it is now again possible to send volunteers from Germany on assignment to countries that are not subject to a travel warning or restrictive security guidance.

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| Exchanges

Evaluation of pilot phase shows weltwärts Exchange Projects funding line has closed a funding gap in the area of international extracurricular youth exchange.

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| About weltwärts

weltwärts cross-organisation partner conferences are to be held again, between October 2021 and April 2022. Implementing organisations have until 18 September 2020 to submit an expression of interest in managing a conference.

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