Special precautions and rules for meetings

Nevertheless, special precautions and rules are necessary right now.

Please read all informations in this PDF-file carefully!

We are looking forward to see you - in real life ;)

In this particularly challenging time we are all in demand. We can and must all make an important contribution to containing the coronavirus pandemic in Germany. We must above all protect the elderly and vulnerable groups! This requires solidarity on the part of each and every individual.

Public life is currently at a standstill. Sports clubs and schools are closed, seminars are cancelled until further notice. No one can say how long this state of emergency will last, but for the coming weeks everything will be different.

We are working hard on alternatives for our seminars in the voluntary service and keep you/you informed via e-mail and our homepage. Let's make the best of a time when we have to think about the common good and move closer together despite a safety distance.

Every day we receive many requests from our volunteers and volunteer workers. We are still available for you/Euch Mo-Thu from 9:00 to 16:30 (Fr to 16:00) under the phone number 0551 517 46 500 or by e-mail: info@fwd-sport.de personally.

We try to support you/Euch where we can!

Seminar cancellation
If volunteers do not attend seminar days for health reasons or due to the coronavirus pandemic, or if the seminars are cancelled for this reason, their absence is considered excused and the seminar days are credited to the volunteers. If there is a realistic possibility, the seminars should be moved to other locations or made up for later (possibly proportionately).

Extended tasks for volunteers in the places of work
According to the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the following regulations apply with regard to service in the deployment centres (as of 19.03.2020):

If, due to the current situation with regard to the handling of the coronavirus, an extension of the scope of volunteers' work beyond the service agreed upon at the placement site should be considered, this is possible in consultation with us as the provider.
In specific individual cases, the placement site or the executing agency must make an assessment of the risk situation, if necessary in consultation with the local health authorities, and must weigh up the concrete risk potential for the volunteers against the maintenance of official duties in the placement sites. Special attention must be paid to the duty of care towards minors. If the service has to be interrupted or even discontinued, the concrete risk situation existing in the individual case and the impossibility of finding other solutions or possibilities of employment must be documented.

For frequent questions here are a few links with current information.

On Friday, September 7, 2018, 70 weltwärts volunteers of the ASC Göttingen von 1846 e.V. were given a very special honor. The Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil, invited to the reception in the guest house of the state government in Hanover.
The positive atmosphere was palpable when ASC weltwärts volunteers from the 2017/18 and 2018/19 years came together to symbolically hand over the baton for the next round.