As you may have gathered from the VISIONEERS e.V. website and past blogs, we as a team emphasize the very important aspect of making good connections with people on a regular basis— whether those connections be professional or personal—through our multi-faceted volunteer opportunities, cooking events and creative workshops. In light of this emphasis to mediate great connections, we will be posting short bios about who’s who at VISIONEERS. In this way you can get to know who m

Recently, VISIONEERS e.V. teamed up with CIEE to host an intercultural exchange dinner. CIEE, Council on International Educational Exchange, is a non-profit organization promoting international education based in the United States. The students who joined us for dinner came from the east coast of the U.S., because they are currently studying in Berlin for a semester. Everyone was very excited to try these new and mouth-watering dishes! Zanib, the host and cook of this event,

Visioneers e.V. hosts a wide variety of workshops and programs. Some of Visioneers' e.V. activities are closely intertwined with food, as food can be a foundation for community. Along with Visioneers’ e.V. goal of highlighting corporate social responsibility (an area where we have many opportunities for individuals or groups), corporate cooking events are a natural fit. Each Friday, a dynamic group of four, Issam, Omar, and Saad, three wonderful men from Syria (one of whom wa

How my day at the Integrationsmesse in Berlin turned out to be a linguistic adventure. On September 8th, I attended an Integrationsmesse (Integration Fair) at the Flüchtlingszentrum Berlin Mertensstraße (Refugee center) in Spandau, organized by the Berliner Stadt Mission and the staff at this Refugee center.As Visioneers e.V. volunteers, our goal was to introduce Visioneer’s e.V. weekly activities and mentorship programs to the people living at this center and to encourage re