Patience and understanding are essential when taking care of older people. Improving everyday life will often prove difficult, but as a result even small changes are immensely rewarding both the older person and the volunteer.
The volunteers work with, for example, refugees, drug addicts, the homeless, and in neighbourhood initiatives, shelters for battered women, or seamens' missions.
Have you always been interested in history and politics? Can you imagine guiding people around memorial sites, preparing exhibitions or delving into archives? Would you like to organise seminars on democracy or take action against racism and for human rights? Find out more here.
