"Refugees Welcome” (Flüchtlinge Willkommen), is one of the most successful people-run platform in Europe, helping refugees to find a shelter.

Golde Ebding is a qualified social worker and one of the co-founders of Berlin-based "Refugees Welcome” (Flüchtlinge Willkommen), the most successful people-run platform in Europe, helping refugees to find a shelter. Before this, Golde has gained firsthand experience in the migration sector while wor rking for an NGO in Valencia, Spain and later the church welfare services back in Berlin. Her role with “Refugees Welcome” is to coordinate the practical arrangements for accommodation and to advice the hosts on legal and financial matters. Moreover, she is very active in further developing the original concept by creating addition structures that would render the project more efficient and would further facilitate the interaction of the contributing actors. In 2013 she published her first book, "“Desperate measures?! Refugees’ Lifelines” (Flucht nach vorn?!: Lebenslinien von Flüchtlingen), which portrays refugees as individuals with very different life stories. Golde is only 27 years old

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