The best thank-you is actually, the success of a blossoming young protégé to experience. Or the telling Hands of an old lady. Or to feel the team spirit in the football club: One for all, all for one! So many of Berlin for your city – and on Saturday the city for your volunteer.

the culture of volunteer engagement, the culture of Acknowledgment is, therefore, 2019, for the fourth Time of the day, “Berlin says Thank you!”. This year, the Senate and city society, institutions and initiatives on Saturday, 16 download. February, dedicated in Berlin. Among the participating institutions, the Berlin theatre, Botanical garden, Opera, zoo, museums, the Philharmonic hall, Parks, community colleges, and swimming pools, as well as the Berlin city hall. On the Internet there is a long list of 144 institutions of A as in the Berlin house of representatives to Z as in Zoological garden in Berlin. The Offerings include free admission and Free guided tours on weekends, but also free tickets for events in the coming weeks. Engagement in Berlin, of which also want to learn again and again, representatives of non-governmental organizations from all over the world.

Berlin’s ruling: “diversity in our civil society,”

“volunteering is an integral part of our urban society, because without dedicated citizens, many would be unthinkable. This is true for sports, for social tasks, for institutions such as trade unions, churches and associations across the width of the diversity of life in our civil society,“ says Berlin’s governing mayor Michael Müller. The latest statistics on the social commitment come from 2014 from the “national report of the German survey on Volunteering” by the Federal government. Even then, 64.7 per cent of Berlin women and Berlin “to the public, as a community, active”, each third party has a volunteer. The volunteer boom starting in 2015 with the refugee movement has not been detected, even in the representative survey is carried out every few years.

The day of action there were in January 2016 for the first Time, he was also as a thanks to the welcome initiatives. According to the Governing mayor of Berlin, also says 2019 “Thank you for commitment and fraternal help, the help that our Berlin remains the life – and-love values, the metropolis with a heart”. Use, for example in the club, also has a political Dimension. “Democracy lives from the commitment,” stresses the President of the chamber of deputies of Berlin, Ralf Wieland. “In Berlin we can count ourselves lucky that there are not so many Volunteers, the social cohesion in our city no matter. We wouldn’t have this many people in Berlin would be poorer.“

Free admission to museums, Hertha awards Tickets

Michael Müller would like to thank the 16. February with a morning reception in the town hall, the house of deputies President speaks. And then there is, for example, in the Renaissance theatre discounted admission, free admission to the “live it to the full! The Museum for children“, a Free-guided tour of the Khadija mosque and 3 for 2 at the fastest Elevator in Europe up to the observation terrace of the panorama point at Potsdamer Platz. Bröhan-Museum and Brücke Museum grant access free of charge. Hertha BSC awards for the Olympic stadium 50 free tickets for the game at 6. April 2019.

the sewage treatment plant Waßmannsdorf of the Berliner wasserbetriebe with power, it is one of the largest plants of its kind in Germany. Professionals through the High-Tech facility, footwear must be brought. Those interested should please sign up at [email protected] with the password “Berlin says Thank you”, or by telephone under the number 030 864 46393

must identify themselves to the enthusiastic visitors at the free Thank-you events with volunteer cards, or volunteer pass, for example, you should also take guardianship or trainer papers. Often, the institutions are, however, without written proof generous.

All information for the applications, where necessary: www.berlin.de/berlin-sagt-danke

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“thank you day” in Berlin, with Around 150 Free events for refugee assistance

Annette Kögel

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