In order to ensure the future of the operation of the refugee accommodation and the care of the refugees, the Christian Refugee Aid Egelsbach/Erzhausen has given itself the legal framework of a non-profit GmbH. It is supported by its four shareholders: the local church parishes, the Caritas Association Offenbach and the Deanery Dreieich-Rodgau

The direction and goals of the company are set by the shareholders.

Stefan Buckendahl, Wilfried Knapp and Georg Rademacher are in charge of the management. Financial accounting and annual accounts are regularly audited by a committee. The management is appointed by the shareholders and works on a voluntary basis. It is responsible for achieving the goals set by the shareholders.

The "day-to-day business" is in the professional hands of the full-time team. Their areas of responsibility include looking after and supporting refugee families and single refugees, for example in the asylum process, in dealing with the experience of fleeing, language lessons, job searches, supporting children and young people in school and training. This also includes contact with doctors, leisure activities, help with homework, a women's café, conversations: in fact, everything that we as people need as everyday human things.

 

An important aim of the advice is, among other things, to accompany refugees in their asylum procedure and to inform them about onward migration and return. The CFEE also shows refugees ways to break their isolation. It supports them in emancipatory, independent action and participation in social life. Stabilizing the person in the new living environment is an important prerequisite for this. Given the legal requirements, this objective is not always easy to achieve.

The support and advice therefore varies and depends on your life situation, residence status and duration, as well as your own contacts with relatives and friends.

Living together with many people from different cultures requires a high level of tolerance and flexibility from everyone. The people in the shared accommodation come from all crisis-hit countries in the world, for example Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran.

Some areas of responsibility are:

• Orientation aid in the living environment and local structures
• Support and help with all questions regarding social law, asylum and residence law, contact with lawyers, job and training searches, family reunification,
• Child and youth work, help in school, leisure activities, contact opportunities with others from the community
• Support in the health sector, finding/renting an apartment