55 refugees are accommodated in Beringerheim - language course and art therapy planned
Created: 05/13/2022, 17:10
By: Laura Forster
Soon a home for 55 refugees: the Beringerheim in Tutzing.
Helped with the implementation (from left) Monika Mayer and Stephan Jansen from ASB, art therapist Monika Igl-von Velsen, Rotarty Club Tutzing President Dr.
Siegfried Müßig and Claudia Steinke from the Ecumenical Helpers' Group in Tutzing.
© Dagmar Rutt
55 Ukrainians will move into the beringer home of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund in Tutzing next week.
The Rotary Club enables the refugees to attend German courses and participate in art therapy with donations.
A site visit.
Tutzing – Igor Schurawlenko (49) carries a bedstead up the large wooden staircase of the Beringerheim in Tutzing to the second floor, places it in the hallway next to a dozen other pieces of furniture and makes his way back down to the ground floor.
The Ukrainian has been lugging chairs, tables and slatted frames through the building since early in the morning.
"He just stood in front of the door and wanted to help," said Monika Mayer from the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) during the press conference yesterday morning about the reception of refugees in the Beringerheim.
"On Wednesday I was in the gymnasium in Gilching, where 40 of the 55 refugees who will be moving in next week are still living, and I introduced myself and the project." Igor Schurawlenko is one of the Ukrainians who will be in the building in Tutzing and wanted to help immediately
Without further ado, he helped carry the furniture: the Ukrainian Igor Schurawlenko.
© Dagmar Rutt
The Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, which took over the house in 2017, has been planning and building an inclusive day and overnight house for around a year.
"We want to get involved in the topic of inclusion," says Mayer.
However, when the district office asked for temporary use of the rooms for refugees from Ukraine, Mayer and her team did not have to think long and put the original project on hold for the time being.
“Our motto is: Help in the here and now.
When would that be better?” Mayer says.
However, the inclusive day and overnight house is only postponed, not cancelled.
The Beringerheim offers 23 rooms for 55 refugees, some from the gym in Gilching, some from private households in Tutzing - many of them with a view of the lake or the beautiful grounds around the villa from 1912. "We try women and social organizations together in one room,” says Mayer.
The refugees have several bathrooms and a large kitchen at their disposal.
In addition, five employees of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund look after the Ukrainians and are the contact persons for bureaucratic questions.
“We started organizing a month ago.
Now we are as good as finished, we only have to bring the furniture that we received from donations into the rooms," says Mayer and invites everyone who has the time and inclination for today's Friday,
Language courses and art therapy for refugees from Ukraine
When the Rotary Club Tutzing found out about the new use of the villa, President Dr.
Siegfried Müßig immediately realized that he and his members wanted to help.
"We want to support the refugees in three different ways," says Müßig.
With language courses that are created in cooperation with the adult education center Starnberger See, so that the newcomers can integrate as quickly as possible, with a care offer for kindergarten children that the Tutzing ecumenical support group initiated, and with art therapy.
"We don't just want to take in people from the war zone and give them a roof over their heads, we also want to offer them therapy," says Müßig.
On the top floor of the Beringerheim, Mayer and her colleagues have set up a therapy room that art therapist Monika Igl-von Velsen can use with the Ukrainians in the future.
“For the time being, the plan is for me to come twice a week and paint with the children who live here.
This type of therapy works non-verbally, so we can get started right away,” says Igl-von Velsen.
The district is also grateful for the commitment of the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund.
“It's great what a holistic concept has been put together here.
I'm sure that will work well," says Sabine Neumann from the Integration Department in the Starnberg District Office.
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