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11 Mar 2025
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Description
Like children? Creative and into trying new things? Russian-, Polish- or Turkish-speaking? (even though its not urgently necessary).
Support the work of the children` center in Hannover and learn all about German culture and intercultural work in the middle of Germany.
Types of help and learning opportunities
Charity Work
Art Projects
Language practice
Teaching
Gardening
DIY and building projects
Babysitting and creative play
Creating/ Cooking family meals
Help around the house
General Maintenance
Help with Computers/ Internet
UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve
Cultural exchange and learning opportunities
If you like children and want to be a teacher (or enjoy working with them, or already worked as a teacher somewhere else), you will gain a lot of experience, communicating daily with our teachers. You will see, how the teaching programms are created, how we deal with individual difficulties, how the work with parents is built and how bilingual education works.
We will also show you around, tell you all you would like to know about the culture, life, studies and work in Germany; we will help you to learn German language.
There are plenty of things to explore around here - nature, architecture, cultural life. From Hanover you can travel around the whole Lower Saxony (even to the North Sea), walk through the beautiful little cities and even hike (or ski) in the Harz mountains.
Public transport works well (trains, trams etc) - even though it always mean some additional costs. It's quite nice to bike in Hanover - time to time you could borrow our bike or skateboard.
Projects involving children
This project could involve children. For more information see our guidelines and tips here.
Help
We are a little educational center for bilingual kids: those who live in Germany and have Russian, Polish or Turkish as second (or first) native language. Normally those kids can speak German fluently, but don't have many opportunities to practice their Russian. We are supporting the bilingual education helping our guests not to forget and even to improve their Russian skills while taking part in a big variety of interesting activities (workshops, camps, guided tours, theater plays etc).
We don't get much support from the government (yet), so lots of things are done on a voluntarily basis: that means everyone whom you are going to meet in the center does tons of unpaid work: for everyone of us it's mostly a cool hobby.
If you speak Russian, Polish or Turkish and want to gain some experience in teaching, you will help the teachers to prepare the materials for the classes, camps, celebrations, support the teachers while they're giving classes, if necessary (help children to solve their tasks) and play with kids. You can also organise a workshop or a little activity for kids yourself.
Sometimes it will be necessary to help us a bit in the household - simple things like hoovering, washing the floor, taking care of our small garden and sorting out some documents.
If you DO NOT SPEAK those languages, but would like to join us for a while, we are looking for people with some special skills:
- someone with magic hands which are able to fix cupboards on the walls, hang lamps on the ceiling, build benches from wood etc.
- someone who can nicely paint on the walls (check our pictures: if you could paint such a thing as we already have, welcome, lets continue this together!)
- someone who is good at making pictures and videos: to help us gathering nice memories about all the classes
If you don`t have any skills from the list above but still want to join, PM us - maybe we will figure out something together.
Languages
Languages spoken
German: Fluent
English: Fluent
Russian: Fluent
Slovak: IntermediateThis host offers a language exchange
This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
You can contact them directly for more information.
Accommodation
You will stay in a separate room: sofa, table, plenty of books in different languages, balcony and good Internet-connection.
The flat is in the nice calm district close to the main train station (10 mins away); there is a nice forest over the corner if you like jogging.
What else ...
Welcome to the team: we are all very open-minded, willing to share, creating great atmosphere in the center and around. We also like to travel and will always share all the useful advices with you.
A little more information
Internet access
Limited internet access
We have pets
We are smokers
Can host families
Can host digital nomads
Internet connection is very good and allowes also video-calls in a normal quality.
How many Workawayers can stay?
One
Feedback (3)
We all - the team and the children - enjoyed this experience a lot.
Alisa was great partner for all the games, energetic teacher while making her part of the program (games & cooking & discovering of the history and geography of her home-country) and a very nice and… read more
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We all - the team and the children - enjoyed this experience a lot.
Alisa was great partner for all the games, energetic teacher while making her part of the program (games & cooking & discovering of the history and geography of her home-country) and a very nice and… read more
She joined us quite spontaneously and "caught the flow" immediately. She managed shopping, even though she doesnt speak German. She was best Santa`s elf ever, packing Christmas presents for kids. She easily solved lots of little daily-routine tasks and even participated in the Russian class.
It was obvious from… read more
She was a very nice person and I also liked Hannover very much. I could borrow her bike when she was not using so that I could get around the city easily.
I helped her Russian children's center with some small tasks. I liked the jobs there such as painting, cleaning, decorating, and paperwork because I could… read more
She organised one really great workshop, teaching quite a big group (11 kids and some parents) how to wallow.
Without knowing those kids before, she mastered the event really great; in the end each participant had cute hand-made toy.
During her… read more
As she doesnt speak Russian (second language of the kids) or German, in the beginning we were not quite sure if there will be enough of work for her, but Eva painting skills are just great. During those days she painted the playhouse for kids in a very nice way, so… read more
