Edition May 2017

Dear friends and members of VISIONEERS,

We have again much to update you on: news on the tailored leather sewing workshop for women, Linda and Maria will travel to Costa Rica, the vocational school in Limón 2000 takes shape and we were visited by QVARTZ from Denmark, …

Our own office.

As we have already jovially announced, we now have, located at Belziger Straße 71 in Schöneberg, at last our own office! For the premises, we still need: plates, hotplates, refrigerators, shelves for the plates, a sofa, armchairs and office chairs. In case you have any of this available to donate, please let us know at: info@visioneers.berlin. Many thanks for your support.

Leather Sewing Workshop for Women.

At the end of 2016, a tailored leather sewing workshop for refugee women was designed thanks to support from the ideas competition "Lokales Soziales Kapital". Every Thursday now, our team meets with the women to produce various leather products.

Maria and Linda will travel to Costa Rica.

Our two interns, Maria and Linda, will travel from July to August 2017 to Costa Rica. On site, they will visit our partner projects in San José, Esterillos Oeste and Limón 2000, to share experiences and further strengthen cooperation between Costa Rica and Germany. For the realization of this working trip, we need your financial support and would thank you in return with a small gift from Costa Rica.

- For donations greater than 20 euros, you will receive a postcard from the interns from Costa Rica.

- For donations greater than 30 euros, you will receive a glass with Costa Rican sand within.

- For donations greater than 50 euros, you receive a package with coffee beans from Costa Rica!

With your donation, please remember to enter your address!

QVARTZ.

On April 28, we had in the framework of a Cooporate Volunteering Day an international visit from employees of QVARTZ, a management consultancy located in Denmark. They supported us for one day with projects. For that, we would like to thank them cordially.

We need you.

If you would like to be a mentor for one of the young adults we help, we hope you sign up. Whether you are a student, currently working or currently a jobseeker, if you are responsible and have three to five hours per week that you could apply to this, we need your help.

Limón 2000.

The vocational school in Limón 2000 in Costa Rica, whose construction VISIONEERS has supported since 2015, has increasingly taken shape. Here you can follow step by step the difficult road to improving education. In addition, our volunteer Chris, who’s located in Limón 2000, has summarized his early experiences and impressions for you.

We look forward to the further development of VISIONEERS projects locally and internationally and remain excited. The VISIONEERS team wishes you a relaxing time.

Your Laura