It’s happening … we have launched our Crowdfunding-Kampagne on Startnext with which we want to collect 70,000 euros within 6 weeks.
CUCULA – Das Unternehmen von und für Flüchtlinge from Sebastian Däschle on Vimeo.
What is this project all about?
CUCULA is a registered society, a workshop and educational program at once. In contrast to merely theoretical debates about the situation of refugees in Germany, CUCULA tested a straight way to act for and with refugees in Berlin. Together we want to build and establish a business!
CUCULA Workshop
Over the last few months the CUCULA-Workshop has turned into an impressive project space close to the river Spree: Refugees are here building premium wood furniture with the help of designers. By exchanging knowledge about wood processing, construction and planning, individual ideas find their way into the project. The design classics are evolving…
CUCULA Education
A connected education project offers language and school education and supports during the bureaucratic every day life and by giving legal advise. Refugees should feel supported when they arrive and should not have to face closed doors. This is vital to overcome the imposed trap of inactivity they often have to experience.
CUCULA Association
The association CUCULA e.V. is the legal framework for workshop & education program.
(The application to reach nonprofit-status is still in progress.) As an association we offer a platform for exchange with experts, interested people and volunteers and supporters. If this pilot project is successful the CUCULA – Refugees Company for Crafts and Design will be hived off as a non-profit company (gGmbH).
What is the project goal and who is the project for?
The aim of this campaign is the initial funding of five apprenticeship places in a unique company from and for refugees: CUCULA – Refugees Company for Crafts and Design.
The social start-up should become a self sustaining business & financially support the trainees, a trainer and a commercial manager. Profits made will flow back directly into the association.
We will create a collaborative training with a vocational center, in order to make it possible for the trainees to reach an officially accepted education degree.
The target group we have in mind is all of you! Everybody who wants to support change by a simple, but effective action. And of course every one who wants to own a real chair and design classic from Enzo Mari.
CUCULA wants to establish itself as a sensational manufactory for design in Berlin!
The chairs should reach out and live in noble mansions, shared flats, offices, coffee places and dental offices. We invite everybody to come by and experience the comfort of these furniture pieces and to join the controversial and heated debate about european border and refugee politics – let’s discuss together how to solve this problem.
Please consider our “value added gift campaign”
You think we do great furniture, but you have no place left at home? Simply give away a chair or more to a social service provider in need and double your good deed!
Its easy, please select from the following options and change the delivery address in the order form to:
A) Kita “Tarzan und Isolde e.V.”, Friedelstraße 28, 12047 Berlin (GER)
This kinderladen had to leave its rooms after 15 years just recently. The kids & the nursery nurses would be very happy about a few new children chairs & benches in their new rooms!
B) Internationaler Bund (IB), Verbund Berlin Erziehungshilfen, Mehringdamm 107, 10965 Berlin (GER)
In these facilities in Marienfelde around 700 refugees are waiting for a new future. In the various rooms like, a girls meet-up, youth club, reading rooms, schooling & children care facilities some nice furniture is urgently needed.
C) CABUWAZI Kinder- und Jugendzirkus, Bouchéstr. 74, 12435 Berlin (GER)
This circus from & for children and teenager is active to help creating a more engaged & tolerant Berlin youth, a more viral, open-minded and a more all-inclusive Berlin society.
D) Anyone you want to donate a CUCULA chair
We’ll deliver the furniture you’ve picked at any delivery address (inside the EU) if this campaign is successful.
