Our Community
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“You don’t feel like you’re a stranger here”
If you’ve been to one of our community team-ups, Refugee Cooking Group, Open Art Shelter, Sprachcafe or almost any other GSBTB event in the last six months, you’ve probably come across the sunny face that belongs to Nebras Othman.
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Inviting eight Syrians for Christmas
Hania Hakiel, the project manager of our GSBTB Open Art Shelter, invited Syrian friends back to her homeland for Christmas
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Free online course: Migration Matters
Our friends At Collidoscope Berlin have launched a free online course on migration which aims to turn the contentious migration debate into an open conversation grounded in evidence and research.
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Christmas dinner with the Refugee Cooking Group
For the first few hours of Christmas day I really regretted my decision to have a Berlin Christmas. Luckily, I had kept one tradition – the stress of trying to cook Christmas dinner.
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GSBTB refugee and friends Christmas music extravaganza
Our Christmas Party Music Extravaganza event last week was a culmination of all the best parts of this year in the life of Give Something Back to Berlin.
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A French woman greets refugees after the Paris attacks
"I heard of the attacks on your people on Friday. I'm so sorry for that. I think of your people." His condolences are the most touching I have received, because they come from someone who has lived every day with the horror I experienced on January 7th and November 13th.
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Feeling honoured: GSBTB receives donations from exile-Syrians
This week Diana, a Syrian journalist from Al Jazeera, knocked on the door of our office.
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“I like that GSBTB creates a door to volunteering, but not a house”
Wanda Caddick set up a dance therapy volunteer project earlier this year where she has been able to collaborate with other GSBTB volunteers and several local organisations.