Café Joy of Life is a meeting place for people aged 60 and over according to the motto "Advice - Encounter - Participation". Everyone is invited to get involved in the project - regardless of origin, nationality or language. Visitors receive help and support during the transition from employment to retirement. In the area of education, there are language courses, workshops on dealing with the internet and digitization as well as physical and mental health. In addition, the café gradually offers numerous leisure activities - from cooking, crafts, arts and crafts, repair cafés to trips and excursions to community gardens, cultural events and parties for people 60+.
The counseling services range from general social and migration counseling to financial and debt counseling, from job coaching and job application workshops to advice on applications and correspondence. The aim is to strengthen financial security in old age, avoid indebtedness and open up new perspectives for one's own income situation, even after retirement. Another innoavtive aspect is that the employees on site are able to assist visitors in Arabic, Aramaic, Bulgarian, German, English, Farsi, Kurdish, Russian, Somali, Tigrinya and Turkish. Other languages can be offered if required.
Café Lebenslust offers:
Consulting services: social counselling and migration consulting; financial advice and advisory for debtors; job- and application coaching; help with motions and affairs concerning public authorities
Education: language promotion; workshops about how to use the internet and how to deal with digitality; workshops covering physical and mental health; information events about the process of getting older in general
Leisure: cooking; crafts; repair cafe; excursions; art- and culutral offers
Networking: public place for exchange and encounters; a place to get to know and link with other people and things; connections to other actors of the district are made; introduction of civil dedication; intergenerational encounters
Café Lebenslust wants to:
…improve quality of life
…live cultural diversity
…enable a self-determined, energetic and healthy aging process
…counteract social isolation
…enhance financial backstop in old age
…open up new perspectives on everyday life
…promote social participation of elderly people
The counseling services range from general social and migration counseling to financial and debt counseling, from job coaching and job application workshops to advice on applications and correspondence. The aim is to strengthen financial security in old age, avoid indebtedness and open up new perspectives for one's own income situation, even after retirement. Another innoavtive aspect is that the employees on site are able to assist visitors in Arabic, Aramaic, Bulgarian, German, English, Farsi, Kurdish, Russian, Somali, Tigrinya and Turkish. Other languages can be offered if required.
Café Lebenslust offers:
Consulting services: social counselling and migration consulting; financial advice and advisory for debtors; job- and application coaching; help with motions and affairs concerning public authorities
Education: language promotion; workshops about how to use the internet and how to deal with digitality; workshops covering physical and mental health; information events about the process of getting older in general
Leisure: cooking; crafts; repair cafe; excursions; art- and culutral offers
Networking: public place for exchange and encounters; a place to get to know and link with other people and things; connections to other actors of the district are made; introduction of civil dedication; intergenerational encounters
Café Lebenslust wants to:
…improve quality of life
…live cultural diversity
…enable a self-determined, energetic and healthy aging process
…counteract social isolation
…enhance financial backstop in old age
…open up new perspectives on everyday life
…promote social participation of elderly people
Case study details
- Lead organisation
- Countries
- Germany
- Regions
- Kassel
- Themes
- Social integration of those at risk
- Target groups
- Individuals experiencing poverty or social exclusion
- Level of action
- Local
- Source of funding
- Public - national
- Budget
- ESF Funding 105.000 per year
- Programming period
- 2022 - 2027
- Project start
- 2022
- Project end
- 2027
- Type of initiative
- Integrating disadvantaged groups
- Participants
- people aged 60 and over
- Internet and social
- EU fund
- ESF/ESF+
