More information for refugees arriving from Ukraine and those who offer help / Інформація для біженців з України і для волонтерів: berlin.de/ukraine
Current language: English
Help and Support

Women
- Counselling services:
www.tio-berlin.de
www.frauenzentrum-marie.de
www.frauenzukunft-ev.de
www.frauundberuf-berlin.de
** www.raupeundschmetterling.de
- Protection from violence
national telephone helpline for violence against women – 08000 116 016 –
- Domestic and family violence
BIG e.V. – Berlin initiative against violence towards women: BIG hotline: 030 6110300 (8am-11pm)
- Consultation office for sexual violence against women
LARA crisis and counselling centre www.lara-berlin.de
- Human trafficking counselling service
Ban Ying e. V. coordination and counselling service www.ban-ying.de
In VIA – counselling service for women affected by human trafficking homepage
- Telephone service for women in crisis: 030 6157596 or e-mail
Discrimination
- ADNB des TBB – Berlin antidiscrimination network www.adnb.de
- BDB – Federation for antidiscrimination and education work in the Federal Republic of Germany www.bdb-germany.de
- Age or disability antidiscrimination counselling from Berlin state self-help association www.lv-selbsthilfe-berlin.de
- Senate department for health, care and equality (discrimination on the grounds of gender)
Department of women’s and equality policy www.berlin.de/sen/frauen/ - Schwulenberatung Berlin gGmbH (Berlin gay counselling) www.schwulenberatungberlin.de
- ReachOut – victim counselling and education against right-wing extremism, racism and anti-Semitism www.reachoutberlin.de
The Senate Department for Health, Care and Equal Opportunities offers written information on discrimination on the grounds of sex.
Independent bodies and projects
- Divan e.V. – intercultural neighbourhood centre and multigenerational house
- BOX66 – the intercultural meeting centre for women and families at Ostkreuz
- Citizens’ initiative – Ausländische MitbürgerInnen e.V. (foreign fellow citizens)
- MILES – Zentrum für Migranten, Lesben und Schwule vom LSVD Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (Berlin-Brandenburg lesbian and gay association centre for migrants, lesbian and gay people)
- Women´s Welcome Bridge – Women in Berlin build Bridges a digital blackboard with consultation, education and leisure opportunities for refugee women in Berlin
- Digital Empowerment – Media Skills for Refugee Women Project for refugee women in cooperating accommodations, to increase the access to information and orientation, consultation and language skills.
Welcome Center
- Legal, social and hardship consultation:
Mon 8:45 am – 1 pm
Wed 8:45 am – 1 pm
Thu 8:45 am – 1 pm +
1:45 – 5 pm - Consultation on German courses, recognition of professional qualifications from abroad, professional training, further education, studying, employment law, starting a business:
Tue 8:45 am – 1:45 pm +
1:45 – 5 pm - Initial consultation by phone and appointments:
Mon + Fri: 11 am – 1 pm