An important area of our association’s work is parent and family education. Our goal is to accompany and support individual family members and families as a whole in coping with life and to stimulate processes of reflection and change. With our activities we create a space especially for families with migration and refugee experience – for their personal needs, wishes and expectations, their rights, for their social identity, their social contacts and their physical and psychological regeneration.
In addition, we share our knowledge and experience in workshops and seminars with other organizations, initiatives and multipliers.
Head of the department: Maryna Markova
Contact: familie@yekmal.de
Current projects:
1. empower you! Empowerment and participation of parents and families with migration history
2. accompaniment of refugee families in the district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
3. familY program
4. famNet – the “family network” project in Marzahn-Hellersdorf
5. course offers for women with migration biography (MiA)
6. rengîn: Intercultural Multilingual Family Center
Griffbereit Kurmancî-German
Creative (early childhood) artwork
Zaza Kids Kirmanckî-German
Parents’ Café
Women/Mothers Meeting
The area of parent and family education is active in the following committees and working groups:
- AG Family Education
- Social Space AG
- Fathers’ AG
- Mariannenplatz Education Network
- BeFaN – Network
- Migration Advisory Council Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
- Monitoring Committee for the Action and Initiative Fund
- Expert Working Groups on Migration
- Family education at the Paritätischer Wohlfahrtsverband
Our projects are supported by:
District Office Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg of Berlin;
The Senate Commissioner for Integration and Migration (Participation and Integration Program);
BAMF – Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
