Was für ein Jahr es war! Es gibt viel zu feiern und viel zu lernen! 2023 hat uns als Organisation auf vielfältige Weise herausgefordert, und wir haben einen Moment innegehalten, um über diese Erfahrung nachzudenken.

This story is about the true meaning of comfort food and how our author Kidus Assefa learnt to replicate a flatbread called ‘Kitta’ he grew up with in Ethiopia.

Annamaria Olsson recounts the stories of those who risked, and ultimately sacrificed, their own freedom helping refugees from East Germany flee.

“Re-creating social fibers is one of the most important steps in making the new place a home,” writes our founder Annamaria Olsson in her article published by Baltic Worlds.

“We are mostly ladies, women, teenagers, and girls. We have many different names. We bring all sorts of stories that belong only to ourselves.” On the occasion of International Women’s Day, Antonina Stasiuk, Project Manager of the Open Hearts Space wrote about the diversity that lies within the community.

Lizzy Grosvenor, a Social Psychology Masters student and project intern at Give Something Back to Berlin, attended a study session recently called ‘Managing mental health as a refugee, asylum seeker and migrant’. We asked Lizzy to tell us about this crucial yet rarely discussed topic.