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Blinc organised a second DREAMM training session for volunteers and staff at Caspo e.V. in Altwarmbüchen on 12 October, 2022 in an effort to offer partial DREAMM Mentor Training to participants who have already become involved in implementing DREAMM activities but who were not involved with the project when the initial mentor training was carried out. The main subject covered was intercultural mediation.

As part of a DREAMM workshop designed to bring Germans and non-Germans together for field trips to historically and culturally relevant places in and around Hannover, an international and multicultural group took a field trip to the “Wilhelm-Busch-Museum” in Hannover on September 24th, 2022.

The Discgolf Club Göttingen attended the Weststadtfest after being invited by DREAMM Lead Mentors to show attendees their sport and give them information about how sports clubs work in Germany.  A wide variety of residents of the western city and visitors tried out the sport and spoke with club members and DREAMM volunteers about sports in Germany.

As part of a DREAMM workshop designed to bring Germans and non-Germans together for field trips to historically and culturally relevant places in and around Hannover, an international and multicultural group set out for the “Sprengelmuseum” on August 27th to view and discuss a photography exhibition called “zu Hause” (home), which features the photographic work of a variety of artists largely focused on the phenomenon of forced migration.

Another DREAMM intercultural field trip, part of the DREAMM project component “Familiarising with the Place”, took place on 18.06.2022.  This time, our DREAMM project mentors chose the “Heilpflanzengarten” in Celle, a botanical garden specialising in plants with medicinal benefits according to traditional and modern medicine. 14 people joined the field trip, including both Germans and people from Iran, Iraq, Guatemala and Columbia.  The group took the train to Celle using Germany’s popular “9-euro-ticket”.  Despite 30 degree heat, participants thoroughly enjoyed…

In cooperation with the local nonprofit organisation Caspo e.V. , DREAMM Lead Mentor  H.-C. Fröhlich began providing weekly orientation and counseling services to newly-arrived Ukrainian refugees from Caspo’s „GRATA“ office in Altwarmbüchen.  The counseling services, which began on April 8th, 2022,  are available by appointment every Friday.