Finding + supporting mentors for pupils in Berlin

Dear GlobalGiving members and supporters,

It’s time for a report about our project again. The past months have been exciting for us, the families and mentors.

Our community and neighborhood center “NachbarschaftsEtage” turned 40 years old, and we decided to celebrate that with all our neighbors in the beginning of September. We started the celebrations with a panel discussion on the first day. It was about community work. We informed everyone about the know-how and let them ask questions. The day was organized with and for politicians, managers and visitors. On the second day people were invited to celebrate with us, have coffee and cake made by some of our visitors, listen to live music and have lots of information booths about all the projects and activities in our community/ neighborhood center. We even had politicians and cooperation partners visit us during that special day. We organized a little raffle in which visitors could win coupons and free drinks for different cafes, restaurants and shops around the neighborhood. The families enjoyed having chats and a lovely time with all of us in one place.

A lot has changed within our PaSch team as well. Due to new structures, we were able to welcome a new employee who works with us on the 1^st of October. She has a major in social work and will be concentrating on the project 18 hours a week. Since she speaks German, English and Turkish, she is a very helpful addition to the project. She can find connections to families with her language abilities and make them join us for a better and more accepting community.

As always, we had new matchings in PaSch. We matched a 9 year old boy with a young man that is active in our district as well. After signing the mentoring contract, the child and mentor were given time to decorate their papers with stickers and stamps. Each child becomes very proud of their decorated contract and shows it off to us. We added a picture of how colorful and sparkly the table looks during the decoration time.

We also had a 3-month catch-up with a mentor and a child that were matched before the summer holidays. They were telling us about their time together, which activities they have been trying and enjoying and telling us about how the mentoring has been working out for them.

Besides these updates, we have also had a few new volunteers reaching out to us because they want to become mentors. We met one of them and had a two-hour meeting with her, telling her about our work and expectations.

None of these great events, changes or progresses, would have been able to continue and exist without your very great support. We truly and genuinely thank you for your continuous support over the past years. We look forward to sharing the other wonderful events happening within our project.

Thank you so much for reading our report. We look forward to seeing you in 2027.

Kind regards,

Your PaSch Team