The Deutsche Rheuma-Liga Berlin e.V., founded in 1975 by doctors and affected, is the biggest  Berliner help & self-help community included into the healthsystem, with an self image of being a non-profit and democratic selfhelp association. The associations mission is to assist humans with chronic rheumatic illnesses in their daily lifes. This happens in the associations therapy, counselling and self-help center, regional Rheuma-Liga-meeting points, in approx. 90 self-help groups, by providing a versatile and close to home course programm and many other offers.

„We get kids of the streets“ way more that half a million people in Berlin live below the poverty line. One of five is of the age of zero to fifteen The Kinder- und Jugendwerk „Die Arche“ fights againt child poverty in Germany. The mission, to get these kids from the streets, give them reasonable leisure opportunities, to act against social deficiencies and to elevate children in generell again into the center of the society.

Not all human get theire daily bread – and still there is a surplus of foodstuff. The mission of Berliner Tafel e.V is, to redestribute food of faultless qualitiy, that cannot be resold anymore, to destitute people of the region.

Children need reliable relationships and support. Children, whose parents suffer intermittently from severe psychological illness, usually lack both. In many cases they become care-givers for their sick parents. That great burden puts them at risk to become mentally ill themselfs. The Berliner youth agency
AMSOC e.V. trys to avoid, by finding and joining those children with voluntary godparents. They take care of the children regularly and long-term. On a weekly bases they organize some activities with their charges, let them partisipate in the godparents daily lifes and in the worst case, they give the children shelter until the parents are back on their feet.
Experts from AMSOC e.V. choose carefully the godparents and prepare them with specific trainings for the acceptance of this responsible honorary role.