Tag: Kiez
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The Berlin Blueprint: Participation as the Ultimate Act of Self-Determination
In the glossy catalogs of modern wellness, “self-help” is often sold as a retreat from the world: a private journey of healing through products and quiet contemplation. Berlin’s history, however, offers a more rugged, democratic alternative. In this city, wellbeing has never been found in isolation. It has been forged through participation. To be a Berliner is to understand that wellbeing…
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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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The Berlin Lesson: Trust People, Not Bureaucracies
I was reading Walter’s article about volunteering, and made me think deeply. I come from a society where volunteering was never a tradition. The imperative was: everyone takes care of themselves. If someone works unpaid, they are considered a loser or being taken advantage of. Applying to university never required any kind of volunteer experience, so it was never part of…
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From Glitter to Growth: How Taylor Coburn Found Her Shine in Berlin
I had the pleasure of sitting down with an immigrant change-maker who encourages fellow immigrants from all walks of life to build their lives here in Berlin, instead of just scraping by and letting social norms, visas, or rules rob them of their ability to thrive. Taylor Coburn is involved in many projects around the city – The Self-Help Contact and…
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The Power of Ehrenamt: Finding Connection Through Volunteering in Berlin
The news is grim these days. Everywhere we look things are going off the rails. The cost of living, and the political maneuverings… everything seems like too much, too soon, and too fast. And it’s easy to give in to the atomization of 21st century life; we are millions of people living alone. Alone in a crowd. Last week I wrote…
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Six Pictures from the Future — A Glimpse into Tomorrow’s Berlin
For a campaign, you need many elements — but everything starts with funding. That’s why we first want to give enormous thanks to the supporters of WahlheYmatPost, to everyone who believes in what we do and why we do it: the Welcome Alliance Fund by ProjectTogether and the Bundesministerium des Inneren. And a heartfelt thank-you to our cooperation partner, Berliner Morgenpost.…
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