Zaki - Bildung und Kultur e.V.

About us

Founded in 2019, our Berlin-based association Zaki - Education and Culture association helps to give new citizens from Afghanistan, the Arabic-speaking cultural area and people from Ukraine access to education and to the job market in Germany.
The name Zaki has its origins in Arabic and in today's Persian language means “the bright, witty, clever one”. That's why we start: with political education, support in official situations, social education, building up linguistic skills and research into personal futures.


Our goal: Arrive safely.
For us, it's about social participation, about everyone being empowered to set self-determined goals, to raise their own potential, and to realize their dreams. We work for people with refugee experiences who are looking for a new start and, often, a first chance in their lives.

Activities:
Advice:
• Advice on practical questions and social advice for Afghan refugees - Languages: Dari, Farsi: Advice on dealing with authorities, help with wording; Preparation of the interview; Advice on family reunification; Support with questions about social benefits; Other issues related to asylum status; Social advice (benefits according to SGB II, SGB XII, child benefit, parental benefit, housing benefit, choice of health insurance provider, etc.); Writing letters (termination, applications, etc.); Filling out forms (job centre, school enrolment, etc.)
• General advice for Arabic-speaking people - Language: Arabic: Social advice (benefits according to SGB II, SGB XII, child benefit, parental benefit, housing benefit, choice of health insurance provider, etc.); Writing letters (termination, applications, etc.); Filling out forms (job centre, school enrolment, etc.)

Seminars, workshops, lectures:
• Give thEM:POWER – Empowerment of Afghans in Berlin; Empowerment of Afghan young people in Pankow; learning to cycle for Afghan women; Online advanced German course: An online course for Afghan men takes place twice a week in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf.
• Seminars for Afghan refugees in Pankow
• Political education: Zaki – Education and Culture offers workshops on political education.
• Men's projects for Arabic-speaking and Afghan people: The men's project offers participants the opportunity to exchange ideas on an equal footing in a protective environment, to talk about their problems and to find out about social issues.
• Political education: fight against anti-Semitism
• Games afternoon for children from Ukraine; Photo workshop for young people from Ukraine; Graffiti workshop for Ukrainian youth
• Women's project in Neukölln
• New offer for black people and people of colour from Ukraine
• Fairy tales told... in your language
• The Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf integration office provides multilingual information about the corona vaccination.
• Be a friend: Refugees support refugees
• Superhero Cards: A digitized photo portrait project
• Situation of refugees in Germany and the Middle East: Lectures on Afghanistan and Arab countries as well as on the situation of refugees in Germany and the Middle East

Tareq Haris is the first chairman of Zaki – Education and Culture

On request we can provide advice for other network participants, give a presentation, and provide current specialist information and contacts in the area of our work.