Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund (ASB) Germany: voluntary social year (FSJ) – offers for interested youths from all over Europe

The voluntary social year (FSJ) offers youths and young adults, who have satisfied their obligation for full-time education, are younger than 27 years old and would like to make 12 to 18 months of their time available, a basis to test their commitment. They can choose from a whole range of possible assignments.

Native and foreign youths have the opportunity to acquire key social and professional qualifications within the framework of a voluntary social year and thus improve their own chances for the future.

During their assignment the participants as a rule receive an amount of € 300.- to € 400.- per month for accommodation, meals and pocket money. The FSJ is managed by experienced funding organisations, which have experience in youth work and the needs of young people. This also includes the Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund  Germany (ASB). The assignment of the FSJ participants at the ASB is mainly carried out in the fields of mobile social services, aid for disabled persons, child day care centres as well as patient transport, rescue service and in general training. The FSJ in the ASB can also be used by young people from the other member countries of SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL. The FSJ is a valuable alternative for the ASB organisations for winning 'upcoming workers' in the full-time and in the voluntary field.

Thus also for the ASB regional organisation Saxony, which has offered the FSJ as a funding body since 2006 and successfully used this an instrument for winning upcoming workers in the field of nursing and the vocational youth training work.

The regional organisation Saxony would also like to give youths from Central and Eastern Europe with good knowledge of the German language the possibility to carry out a FSJ in Germany and is looking for partner schools or youth organisations, which are interested in an exchange.