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Planned by the friends’ association, financed by Berliner Sparkasse, realised with the help of Fliegerwerkstatt: a large game with 30cm high figures has been created for the schoolyard of Ernst-Habermann-primary school.

Together with our project partner ‘Arbeit und Bildung e.V.’, the programme ‘Practical training and basic qualification for young refugees’ is starting again this school year – funded by the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family. During the orientation phase, all six groups come to the Fliegerwerkstatt for a week. The focus here is on arriving, getting to know each other and gaining initial professional orientation.

In the next stage, the young people come to the Fliegerwerkstatt three days a week after two school days or are on a work placement.

Get-to-know-you games on day 1  *  Practice pieces at the workbench  *  Making work clothes with screen printing  *  Collaboration on ongoing larger projects: e.g. planting in the courtyard, welding a metal stand, partition walls for the hangars in Tempelhof  *  Daily cooking and lunch together.

We are delighted to have the support of Binta, our new federal volunteer in the Fliegerwerkstatt!

We have a full two-week programme right at the start of the holidays:

22-26 July 2024 – daily from 10 am – 6 pm

Welding workshop and wood workshop

29 July to 2 August 2024 – daily 10 am – 6 pm

Mornings: wood workshop
Afternoons: sports & games

We look forward to welcoming young people aged 12 and over. Registration by e-mail to: fliegerwerkstatt@socialreturn.de – Admission free!

We have been building festival furniture for the public viewing on the apron of Tempelhof Airport for weeks.

So far, over 300 pallets have been used by the young people of the Fliegerwerkstatt – and there will be many more to build a total of nine seating islands for festivals.

Tickets for the Festival of Respect are available from Tamaja www.little-social-festivals! Be part of it! The European Championship kicks off on June 14!

For the theater season at Tempelhofer Feld, we added a few more extensions to the Atze Musiktheater: Stairs, handrails, platforms and two advertising pillars were built in the Fliegerwerkstatt and assembled on site.

The e-mobile not only ensures fast transportation, but also provides a lot of fun!

Our young people have designed and built a seating area for the emergency accommodation and reception centre in Hangars 2+3 at Tempelhof Airport. Together with the refugees from the hangars the modules were planned to create spaces where people can come together in small groups.

Our funding requests for this project were rejected – but thanks to our loyal donors, we can still realise such ideas. Many thanks for so much support!

At this year’s Girls’Day, six schoolgirls came to the Fliegerwerkstatt to gain their first experience in a wood workshop.

All of them easily managed to build their workpiece in the given time and were also able to socialise with the other young people over lunch.

Five young people from the Jugendbauhütte have been coming to the Fliegerwerkstatt with their instructor since mid-February. Together with the participants in our temporary learning group, they are building sturdy carpentry benches. A great opportunity to bring young people together and let them learn from each other.

The Jugendbauhütte is a project of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and enables young people to do a voluntary social year in monument conservation after leaving school.

And this is what the finished carpentry trestles look like, assembled without screws or glue: