Counseling and work integration for traumatized and long-term unemployed

Advocate 4 Liberty" is a registered nonprofit organization close to Heidelberg. We assist individuals who find themselves in challenging situations and have difficulties establishing themselves in regular employment. We accompany them on their journey towards an independent and self-sufficient life.
Through sustainable vocational integration, counseling, further education, and vocational training measures, we help our beneficiaries start anew in society. Our goal is to guide people from dependency to a self-determined life of freedom, to encourage them, and to strengthen their self-confidence. By discovering their potential, they learn to dream again and believe in a positive and meaningful future.

How we help and what we need donations for:

Counseling and vocational integration for traumatized individuals and long-term unemployed

Our organization advocates for the vocational integration of individuals coming from difficult life circumstances. We focus mainly on supporting traumatized individuals, including refugees who have experienced severe traumatic events, as well as people who have been victims of violence. These individuals require exceptional support and a safe space to process their experiences and improve their situations.
Another important target group of our work is the long-term unemployed. Many have spent significant time without work and face substantial challenges when reintegrating into the job market.
Our main objective is to provide our beneficiaries with opportunities for vocational integration, to enable them to lead a life of freedom and self-determination, and to integrate them into society. Through our counseling services and the opportunity for vocational integration in our social fashion label, we aim to offer them a new perspective and help them regain confidence in their abilities and strengths. We consider each person's individual resilience and gradually increase the number of working hours.
In our counseling services, we provide information on qualification opportunities and offer assistance in filling out applications, job searches, and creating application documents. We offer German and computer courses, other qualifications, and further education opportunities in our social fashion label. For our counseling services, we have ongoing fixed expenses for premises and personnel (approximately €6,740 per month) and require 5-8 laptops (one-time cost of about €8,000) and other materials for teaching. We plan to employ a pedagogue and a social worker for our counseling services and a seamstress for our social fashion Label.