Connective

“I say refugee, I say migrant, I say neighbor, I say friend, because everyone is deserving of dignity. […] And more than ’refugee’ or ’migrant’, I say ’people’, and say it with compassion because everyone I love, and everyone they love has at some point said tearful goodbyes and moved from place to place to seek new opportunities, and almost all of them have by their movement improved those new places.“
(Teju Cole: Migrants Welcome)

This year, 231.302 people from Syria, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Macedonia, Eritrea, Pakistan, Nigeria and many more countries arrived in Germany to apply for political asylum, hoping for new opportunities and in search of a new home.

Connective is a Berlin–based group of friends. By organizing events of different kinds, we want to raise funds to support various accredited organizations and projects for refugees. Our hope is to not only work for them but with them. We want to get together, we want to be together. We want to provide spaces where refugees, migrants, neighbors and friends are all welcome.