Sharing experiences while eating: the city invites a group of asylum helpers

Created: 11/13/2022, 8:00 p.m

By: Doris Schmid

Enjoy your meal: Anna Dörfler (right) and her colleagues also enjoyed the three-course meal.

© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss

Many volunteers support asylum seekers in Geretsried.

As a thank you, the city donated a dinner.

Experiences were exchanged.

Geretsried – Many have been involved for years, some for a few months, and others are just getting started: the volunteers who look after the refugees in the city.

As appreciation for their commitment, the city invited the district to a three-course meal in the council chambers.

Geretsried: City invites asylum helpers to dinner

Deputy Mayor Sonja Frank welcomed around 30 guests - including an Afghan couple and a few women from the Ukraine who are volunteering in their new home Geretsried after fleeing.

She thanked everyone for reaching out to others and helping them navigate their new lives.

"I'm looking forward to an exchange of experiences," said Frank.

And that was what was in the foreground that evening.

The deputy mayor reported that some children at the Isardamm elementary school could need help with their homework.

There are currently many children who do not speak German well.

"Sometimes it helps to read aloud in the afternoon."

Looking for homework help for elementary school students

Hannah Schreyer, coordinator of the helpers' group at "Integration aktiv", emphasized the spontaneity with which many offers for refugees were pounded out of the ground in Geretsried - from language courses and bazaars to family support and information meetings.

A helper shared with those present her negative experiences she had with a Kurdish family in the past.

Despite this, she is still active.

"We have to keep our humanity and keep going," she appealed.

Even if the suffering of others affects you, you have to set a limit for yourself, she advised her fellow campaigners.

Anyone who would like to find out more about the work of the helpers' group can send an e-mail to the helpers' group (helferkreis@jugendarbeit-geretsried.de).

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