Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst 2017 veröffentlicht. Autorin: Sophie Garcia (Paris, Frankreich): Liebe Leserinnen und Leser,heute möchte ich euch ein zweites wunderschönes Projekt vorstellen, nämlich den Garten der Hoffnung im Allende II-Viertel in Köpenick. Dieser Gemeinschaftsgarten ist 2015 auf der Freifläche eines Containerdorfs für geflüchtete Menschen entstanden. Ich habe mich unglaublich gefreut, mich mit den zwei Gründerinnen des Projekts, Petra Strachovsky und Brigitte...

This article was first published on October 15, 2018 Yesterday fireworks echoed around the city like thunderclaps, balloons floated through the sky until it was hard to distinguish them from the stars, and the people of Berlin materialized in happy rushes to celebrate Tag der Deutschen Einheit, or German Unity Day. This day of festivity, gathering, and making music commemorates the reunification of Germany in 1990, and it was my first time to be a part of it. A wall had divided Germany in two,...

Today we are going to have an interview with an organization called #BIKEYGEES e.V. which empowers women to learn how to ride a bicycle by training every third Sunday of the month from 2 pm to 4 pm on the grounds of the youth traffic school Wassertorplatz.    RawafedZusammenfluss: What is #Bikeygees? Jule: #BIKEYGEES e.V. is an association that offers free cycling lessons for (refugee) women and girls. Besides the practical cycling training, we give multilingual traffic lessons and...

Welcome to our website! We are proud we can finally share RawafedZusammenfluss magazine with you. We are old and new neighbours from Treptow-Köpenick and beyond with roots in East and West Germany, Syria, Pakistan, Israel, the USA, Eritrea, Iran, Poland, former Yoguslawia and Chechnya amongst others. We are united by the desire to show the diversity of our district and Berlin to all of you. Together we will try out and discover our surroundings. Why? Because there is already enough simplicity...

I´m Rumeysa from Turkey and this summer I decided to collect stories of powerful women. The first woman I interviewed in this series is Hawa. Hawa Hussaini is from Afghanistan, a country in which female students could not attend school and women were banned from working because of the Taliban. But she kept fighting for herself and for others teaching women's rights. Today, she is 64 years old and full of energy and joy, still giving her knowledge to others through teaching Farsi. Can...

We never would have tried it back home, but when we came to Berlin, everything was differentHere anything was possible and we now had a child. We felt like what we had was unbreakableWe started talking about it, bit by bit, warming up to the ideaAt first, It was mostly myself who was into it. At her suggestion, I created a new profile on OKCupid. I even started making plans with a nice lady who, herself, practiced open marriage. But the timing was off and she wasn’t 100% on board so I delayed...