Donna* came to Germany in 2016. The trained babysitter ran away from Afghanistan with her 19 -year -old son after her husband disappeared and received death threats.
“On my first night in Germany, I slept better than me over the years. I will never forget that night,” she told DW.
While Donna appreciated the security given by Germany, she was haunting her life and her son sporadic fear. The trauma does not quickly go away and it is difficult to focus – a condition to take a job.
Despite his painful experiences, Donna returned it to employment. She has now been working as a care activist for the elderly for two years after completing eight -month training program and German language courses. The 53 -year -old says that she feels that her work is infallible, but she cannot face a career switch again.
So designer babysitter has been helped Work for refugeesA project that is run by GIZ / Society for intercultural co -existence and other cooperation partners, and is funded by the Berlin Senate (Senasgiva). It is one of many publicly funded projects and non -profit organizations, which have been launched to help refugees facing various challenges faced and eliminate recruitment obstacles.
Female refugees face three times the loss
Eight years later, some 68% of people who fled to violence or conflict in their domestic countries to come to Germany got work, according to a rolling survey launched in 2016 Employment Research Institute (IAB), Federal Office of Germany for refugees (BAMF) And the socio -economic panel (Soep) so that the level of women’s employment is much lower than that of men. Some two-thirds of the women are unemployed after eight years. This is contrary to 15% of adult male refugees.
“The study suggests that there is three times the loss for refugee women. They are deprived of women, immigrants and refugees, “Ib explained to the researcher.
Many men who run to Germany are single, while many women come with young children. “When it comes to participating in German courses or takes various services provided by the government, they are damaged.” Shortage of child care workers means that place is not easily available at day care centers.
Many of the bees in the difficulties finding child care are an obstacle for Ukrainian, who fled to Germany with their children after the Russian invasion in 2022.
Whereas in 2015 and 2016, most of the 1.2 million refugees from Germany came from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq and were inconsistent men, Ukrainian’s three-fourths are a woman seeking asylum.
Some female refugees have never worked in their domestic countries or worked in areas such as education or health, which require considerable language skills and are quite regulated in Germany, according to Ehb.
He said, “Men can work in jobs that do not require good German skills, search as the construction sector or service sector. This makes it easy for them to jump this barrier,” he said.
Language skills, recognition of merit throws obstacles
The recognition of foreign qualifications is very difficult in Germany. Donya had no paperwork to prove that he had spent 12 years in school and many years in medical training.
Professional skills are often acquired as part of formal, certified training programs in Germany. Many other countries are fully learning jobs. But the experience is not too much in Germany, if you do not have the paper qualification to match. This forces several refugees to start from scratching again.
While Donna is educated, he does not apply to many other women in Afghanistan. Attacks on women’s education began long before the 2021 acquisition by the Islamist Taliban. Donya’s husband, an English teacher, teaching girls and women in a rural village when he disappeared.
The integration course in General of Germany includes 600 -hour German language tuition, regardless of educational achievements of recipients. Afsaneh Afraze, which works for intercultural co-existence for GIZ / Society in Berlin, is important for all approaches all a size-fit-all approach.
Trained psychologists – who, herself, ran away from Iran in 2014 with her husband, a former political prisoner – could speak from personal experience. “I got 600 hours to learn German, but I had studied, I could speak English. In class, I was next to a 55 -year -old, who never had a pen in his hand,” he said.
Afrez has been psychologically supporting Donna for many years, and said that he is an exception rather than a rule. He said, “It is not easy for a woman to go as far as she goes to Afghanistan,” she told DW.
According to the project job advisor and counselor, Inna Gissa, the work for the refugees first acts according to the motto of finding the work. A Ukrainian refugee, who did his first job in Germany at a hotel restaurant. “I could only count five and say: ‘My name is back in German’,” he said. His command of English helped him achieve the situation.
Gissa said that She knows from experience that the best and fastest way of learning language and making contact is going to work.
Counseling, job fairs and mentoring can help
The Berlin-based project provides free one-to-one counseling session, CV workshops and helps people to keep in appropriate jobs. It refers to the customer to other organizations, which have special programs for women. Therefore, work for refugees has chosen job fairs for example in large -scale refugee housing in Tegel.
Tent also organizes Germany job fairs. The NGO helps refugees find work through their network of 80 companies. Non -profit enterprise focuses on raising leading businesses to connect refugees with employment through hiring, training and mentorship. Some programs are especially in line with the needs of women.
Hence the Mentoring Redi School of Digital is on offer in integration, which was installed in 2015 and launched in Berlin in 2016. The school, which is now based on many other places, provides training in digital skills to technology-wanted local people, migrants and refugees and access to a network of technical leaders and alumni.
The mixture was ideal to help re -start 30 -year -old Hala Unis’s career, which arrived at a human visa from Syria in 2022.
“It was like a community for all people coming from abroad, refugees, people who have the same struggle. This brings more sympathy and more support. You don’t feel alone in all this roller coaster,” Hala told DW.
Many grassroots projects or organizations are employed by women who have fled to Germany, such as Afsheh Afrez and Inna Gisa. Their experiences give him a better understanding of what women are doing.
Women refugee volunteers, such as Donna herself, i.e. as a role model. “Donya may stand on her two legs and she is helping other women,” said Afrez. “I think it is very important that we are like a human chain.”
*Name changed to protect oblivion
Edited by: Reena Goldenburg
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