Support families by serving as an Intended Grandparent

There are many young families without a reliable reference and trusted person nearby, such as grandparents, who can support them on a short-term or regular basis.

As an intended grandparent, you can provide the following tasks to relieve and support the parents or the parent relieve and support:

• give the children time and attention
• Kinder betreuen, if the parent has, for example, a doctor's appointment
• Bake Cake and cookies or cook together
• Care in case of illness 
• walk and play

Your Tasks

Concrete help includes:

• Recreational activities
• Nature visits
• Homework help

What's needed

Patience and enjoyment of working with children.

A prerequisite for the assignment as a godmother/ godfather is the presentation of an extended police clearance certificate . We issue a certificate for the application for the free of charge.

We are happy to introduce interested volunteers to our association and our work in a personal consultation. If you want to support us actively, you can then take out a membership in our association (annual membership fee from 24.00 €). 

Time required

The activities usually include one day a week for several hours. The exact times (day of the week and times) are agreed directly between the godparents and the families concerned.

Lobby (in the positive sense) for children, youth and their families. We advocate:

A child-friendly society, anchoring of children's rights in the Basic Law, fighting child poverty, participationof children and young people in decisions, better education