Your voluntary service in Rhineland-Palatinate

In daycare centers, you work directly with children and support them in learning and playing. You can work with very young children or with preschoolers.

Typical tasks may include:

• Assisting in the planning and implementation of group activities
• Supporting individual development in the areas of play and learning
• Household-related tasks
• Participating in parent meetings and team discussions

Hospitals have various wards, and your tasks will vary depending on where you are assigned. For example, you could work in a rehabilitation clinic or a regional hospital.

Typical tasks may include:

• Basic patient care tasks
• Household-related tasks
• Supporting patient management

In emergency medical services, the focus is strongly on medical work, but you also work directly with people. This means that empathy and spontaneity are especially important. To be eligible for work in this field, you must be of legal age, hold a Class B driver’s license, and complete and pass the three-month training course to become a paramedic.

Typical tasks may include, for example:

• Patient transport
• Emergency response missions (depending on the region and length of your service)
• Documentation of missions
• Disinfection of vehicles used
• Maintenance of equipment and restocking of supplies

Working in a school is characterized by variety and constantly changing situations. You can work in primary schools, special education schools, secondary schools, comprehensive schools, or grammar schools.

Typical tasks may include:

• Supporting individual students in their daily school life and in special learning support programs
• Supervising homework sessions
• Assisting teachers during lessons
• Household-related tasks
• Supporting administrative tasks in the school office
• Helping with extracurricular activities in the afternoon

If you’re interested in social work in general, this is your chance to work with families, children, and young people outside of a school setting. Possible placements include youth centers or clubs, residential groups for children and teenagers, or the DRK "La Casita" program.

Typical tasks may include, for example:

• Supporting children and teenagers living in residential groups
• Supporting families through the La Casita program
• Organizing extracurricular leisure activities
• Household-related tasks
• Open child and youth work

In social services, there are a wide variety of possible assignments where teamwork and empathy are important to provide good care and support to clients. A Class B driver’s license is required for this role.

Typical tasks may include:

• Delivering hot meals or frozen dishes
• Providing transport services for people with disabilities and/or elderly individuals
• Responding to emergency call systems at the Red Cross (DRK)
• Administrative tasks (documentation, copying, etc.)
• Assisting with the setup of emergency call devices in private homes

Additionally, there are many more deployment sites, which are just as unique as you are. You can, for example, work with people in extraordinary situations, work digitally or in an ecological area, work with people with disabilites, people who were displaces, the fire brigade, ... . Take a look at our map to discover all of our deployment sites in your area.