Play!
Berlin

creative projects for families with refugee experience in Berlin

who we are

we are a grassroots, women-led initiative focused on providing children with refugee experience access to cultural activities. Founded in March 2022 to support Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war, Play! Berlin has since grown into a professional NGO

what we do

we foster integration and enhance the social and cultural well-being of families with refugee experience who face social disadvantages

our team

the core of our team are educators, artists, and cultural workers with years of experience in inclusive projects, orphanages, shelters, refugee accommodation centres and camps. All our initiatives supported by volunteers from different countries

our mission

to help children not have to postpone their childhood due to forced emigration

Support us with recurrent or one-time donations

Ongoing

2025

winter camp at TXL

we’ll tell you all about it soon

2024

migrant kitchen-on-the-run

free food and charity actions, open to collaborations

Archive

2024

Spaces of Expression

creative movement classes for children staying in temporary accommodation centers in Berlin

August 2024

summer camp at TXL

a 6-day artistic camp for children from the largest temporary accommodation center in Berlin, located at the former Tegel Airport (UA-TXL)

2023–2024

PLAY! zu gast

creative workshops for children staying in social housing in Berlin

2023

PLAY! goes Open-Air

urban neighborhood festivals at Uferstudios and in the courtyards of social housing sites in Berlin

2022-2023

PLAY! at ACAU

weekly meetings with creative workshops and lunch for Ukrainian families fleeing the war

We are very grateful for the smiles of our children at your events, for the vivid memories, for the support that fill us with faith in people and humanity.

— Natalia

Thanks to all of your team for your help, sincerity, openness and big hearts! Thank you for the warmth and hospitality with which you met us in that cold March! Thank you for all the interesting activities that you always come up with for the children, and they want to come back to you again and again as if they were your family! And you have really become our family this year! We are forever grateful!

— Tatiana

Thank you for your patience, generosity, tirelessness, kindness, interesting and unique workshops and a variety of goodies and lunches, as well as for the opportunity to avoid loneliness on Saturdays. You really are a very strong support for us. We feel the care, support and warmth of every meeting.

— Julia

Thank you for what you do for Ukrainians: for adults and children. We love coming to your workshops. May the Lord keep you and bless you a hundredfold.

— Tatiana

Thank you for your support and understanding! Each meeting is filled with warmth, sensitivity and positivity, and creative workshops inspire both children and adults!

— Alena

Thank you so much! The words are very kind, even to the point of tears!

— Olya