Author: Michaela Vas
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Rising Ukrainian Engagement Powers Berlin’s Civic Scene
WHP: Can you briefly introduce your initiative? What is its main mission in Berlin? Tetyana Lavuta: Svoji.de is an online platform that increases the visibility of Ukrainian civic initiatives in Berlin and Brandenburg and supports their networking with other migrant communities. The name evokes a sense of belonging and safety: the Ukrainian word “svoji” (written in Latin script) refers to people,…
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Newcomers Are Not a Problem to Solve: How SINGA Deutschland Builds Participation
WHP: Could you briefly introduce SINGA Deutschland? What is its main mission in Berlin? Sen Zhan: SINGA Deutschland was founded in 2016 by a brilliant team of three co-founders — Luisa Seiler, Sima Gatea, and Vinzenz Himmighofen — as a humanitarian response at a moment when many newcomers were arriving in Germany. From the beginning, the work was not only about…
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Papers, please! — How I Turned a 90-Day Visa into a Home in Berlin
When you’re trying to set up your life in Berlin, visas are one of the first things you need to get in order. Unless you’re an EU citizen, you can’t live and work in Germany without one. Simple as that! But there are a whole bunch of different visa options. Should you try for the Blue Card? What is a Blue…
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Berlin’s Rental Maze: What an American Learns When the Landlord Plays Games
If you moved to Berlin from another European country, then you probably already know how many protections renters have here. My German friends hate it when I go on about how awful the US is – especially the low-level injustice and exploitative chicanery – but as a renter, you have essentially no rights in the US. In the land of the…
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Monsieur Ibrahim’s Magic in Kreuzberg: From Runaway to Community Maker
I set out to conduct my first-ever interview for WahlheYmatPost on a grey and rainy Friday afternoon in Charlottenburg. The founder of WahlheYmat e.V., Ivan Gabor, mentioned meeting a man named Jaybo, a Frenchman living in the heart of Kreuzberg who is positively impacting his community. I happily took the opportunity to try out being a journalist and go get my…
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“We Can’t Let Protection Become a Privilege”
WahlheYmatPost: Can you briefly introduce your organization? What is its main mission in Berlin? Vicky Germain: The Migrationsrat Berlin e.V. (Migration Council Berlin) is an umbrella organization of more than 90 BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and/or migrant self-organizations and post-migrant groups in Berlin. Its central mission is to improve the social, political, and legal situation of migrants living…
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