Hello dears!

If you would like to start volunteering with us at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, or you have been here earlier in 2022 (but not since the beginning of October):

Welcome / Welcome back 🎉💙

Current Situation and Tasks

<aside> 👉🏿 Note our reduced operating hours: usually, we are on site between 08:30 AM and 10:45 PM (or: until the last train arrives, could be earlier/later). However, we can not ensure that someone is there all the time, so there might be gaps in the schedule.

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Currently, about 100-200 refugees arrive per day at Berlin HBF. Organizations and groups on site:

• DRK Welcome Guides: Meeting at platform, info point, communication with Tegel Arrival Center, helping people moving throughout the station → Intructed by LAF
• Kinderschutz: Children protection service, for vulnerable minors
• Mingru Jipen e.V.: Support for Roma fleeing from the war
• EOTO/Cusbu: Support for BIPOC and 3rd country nationals fleeing to Berlin
• Berlin Arrival Support - it’s us 🙂🎉

How we support (among other things)

• Meeting arriving refugees at the platform, together with the DRK, accompanying them to/from the bus to Tegel Center
• Providing information about possible next steps for every individual, helping with the travel onward (e.g. in Reisezentrum, with eTokens that are handed out by authorities).
• Distributing water (and food, if possible) to arriving refugees.
• Support for vulnerable people
• Information sharing and networking with volunteers from other countries and cities
• Covering other stations e.g. Ostbahnhof, Lichtenberg in times of construction works (sometimes, trains from Poland do not go to Hbf but to other Berlin stations).

How to participate