Stadtteilmütter (District Mothers) initiative

Home visitors’ campaign to promote educational and health information for migrants The Stadtteilmütter (District Mothers) scheme has trained 140 migrant women to be home visitors to promote educational and health information thereby creating a strong local network for integration. Over 1000 families have been reached in this way. Following a campaign for culture sensitive care for senior citizens, the Department for Social Affairs, Housing and Environment of the City Council of Neukölln works together with the migration service of the Caritas (social welfare institution of the Catholic Church in Germany) in the area of services for senior citizens.

The staff of the service for senior citizens was familiarised with culture sensitive services for senior citizens in the framework of information and sensitisation events. An important matter was to attract migrants for voluntary participation in the social committees. The constructive cooperation with the domestic migrant associations at all areas of the services for senior citizens, in particular the work of the social committees and the Senior citizens’ Committee on the local level, is an objective of the culture sensitive service for seniors. A further cornerstone of the culture sensitive service for seniors is the opening of the established meeting points for seniors specified on themes for groups of elderly migrants to gain more visitors of this group.