Students from Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan learn about German traffic rules during a road safety class. Photo: Audi AG. The initial focus was to provide immediate help to the many people coming to Europe at the time.
To open up new opportunities for refugees in Germany, aid projects today focus primarily on speech acquisition, professional training, and cultural integration. Audi employees who are already involved as volunteers with a community service organization that is helping refugees, can quickly and efficiently access financial support from the company.
Due to their regular contact with the organizations at their respective locations, they know best which regional projects need support. On the Audi intranet Audi employees can read reports and stories about the social engagement of their colleagues. Moreover, they can directly register to volunteer in a refugee aid project that is financially supported by Audi. In Ingolstadt and surrounding districts More than 30 refugee projects around the Audi headquarters in Ingolstadt have already been submitted by employees and supported financially by the company from its donation funds as well as organizationally through the Corporate Citizenship department.
The subject of education is given high priority. Audi brought together relevant stakeholders involved in initiatives regarding refugees to identify existing needs and initiate joint projects.
The talks resulted in a major education project in cooperation with the city of Ingolstadt, the adult education center, and Vocational School 1: Since January , 24 refugees ranging from 18 to 26 years old have been taking a class at the vocational school in Ingolstadt.
