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The United Evangelical Mission (UEM) is accepting applications for its South-North Volunteer Program for 2026/2027, inviting approximately 15 young people from Africa and Asia to participate in a one-year voluntary service in Germany. Applicants must be between 18-28 years old, active church members, and ready to learn German, with a deadline for proposals set for May 15, 2025. The program aims to foster cross-cultural competence and personal growth while providing volunteers with social work placements in various community settings in Germany.

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Call for applications

The United Evangelical Mission (UEM) is accepting applications for its South-North Volunteer Program for 2026/2027, inviting approximately 15 young people from Africa and Asia to participate in a one-year voluntary service in Germany. Applicants must be between 18-28 years old, active church members, and ready to learn German, with a deadline for proposals set for May 15, 2025. The program aims to foster cross-cultural competence and personal growth while providing volunteers with social work placements in various community settings in Germany.

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Call for Applications

UEM South-North Volunteer


Program 2026/2027
Caution: Changed procedure

UEM S-N volunteers 2023/ 2024

The Call for Applications for the South-North Volunteer Program of United
Evangelical Mission is now open. UEM invites all member churches to
participate in the program.

The deadline for sending your proposal of candidates toward UEM Officer for
South-North Volunteer Program is May 15th 2025 by the latest. Late
applications will not be considered.

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What is UEM’s South-North Volunteer Program?
The South-North Volunteer Program is a chance for young people to get to
know other cultures, encounter life in a foreign cultural context, and expose
and work in an environment different from one’s own.

With this Call for Application, United Evangelical Mission is inviting approx. 15
young people from Africa and Asia to participate in the South-North Volunteer
Program. Volunteers have the chance to grow personally in an informal
learning process during their one-year-voluntary service in Germany, establish
cross-cultural competence and intercultural leadership skills by working
alongside those with a different background and viewpoints. They can learn
about, contribute to existing partnerships, and build up new ones. After their
voluntary service, the returnees can share what they have learned during their
service with their own communities and networks at home. Host institutions in
Germany get the chance to receive highly motivated volunteers that may bring
in a new, different understanding of every day working culture, new
perspectives and insights.

The South-North Volunteer Program is going to run from mid-March 2026 to


the beginning of March 2027. Applicants should be available from January
2025 to prepare for their service and attend a German language course if
necessary.

What is weltwärts?
Since 2016, all South-North volunteers of UEM participate in the weltwärts
program, a program by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development (BMZ). Please note: since all South-North Volunteers are taking
part in weltwärts, our South-North Voluntary Program is a development
service, it is not a missionary!

What kind of work placements are offered?


All volunteers will be placed in a field of social work, often in a church-related
environment.
Our placements might be in youth centers, schools, kindergartens or
organizations with a focus on disabled people, adult education, working with
refugees or elderly people, within civil society organization doing secular
community based work.

Who can apply?


For the South-North Volunteer Program, the main target group are African and
Asian youth and young adults between 18–28 years who have finished their
secondary or tertiary education. We also highly encourage applications from
people with disability.
All UEM Members in Africa and Asia are invited to send applications, their
candidates should be active members of their church, ideally in youth
leadership roles, suitable to take over leadership roles in the future and enjoy
the full support of the church, expressed by the church's endorsement.

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What are the requirements?
Applicants should
• be available from January 2026. This schedule might include a German
language course in the home country of the applicant or an online
language course.
• be between 18 and 28 years old and should have finished secondary
school. Applicants with work experience are invited to apply, applicants
with a disability are also invited to apply.
• be ready to learn German and speak English fluently, applicants with
initial knowledge of German are favored
• be an active member of their home congregation (as youth group leader,
in youth projects or others), documented through certificate or
recommendation letter
• have the will to serve and work hard when required
• have specific interest in development policies and prepare for a
development voluntary service in Germany
• want to integrate into a society with another cultural background than
their own
• should have the will and the ability to deal with challenging
circumstances (loneliness, language difficulties, etc.).

How to apply?
Caution: New Process
UEM is looking for applicants for a placement in a German member church or
diaconic institution. Please note that applications have to be submitted
through UEM member churches, NOT by individual candidates and also not by
individual congregations. Young people who would like to apply are asked to
contact their church office.

You must fill in the form (one form per candidate) at UEM homepage. E-Mails
to UEM to apply are not possible anymore:

https://www.vemission.org/en/education/seminars/conferences/application-
form-volunteer-program
The closing date for submitting applications is May 15th 2025. Every UEM
member church is encouraged to select two to three candidates. Both female
and male applicants should be considered.

What is part of the application?


Application forms have to be uploaded as requested via the UEM online form.
Please upload the following documents via the online form:

1. Copy of the data sheet of the passport (valid until at least November
2028)
2. Completed application form
3. Curriculum vitae
4. One-page motivation letter written by the applicant, explaining why she
or he wants to participate in this program. We encourage the applicant
to take care writing this motivation letter. This is the possibility to
present yourself, your interests, skills and motivation.

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5. Completed church endorsement form
6. Recommendation letter by a person that knows the applicant and her or
his skills (e.g. from pastor, teacher, other leader of social engagement…)

After the selection procedure, we will ask for:

1. A medical examination form completed by a doctor


2. Measle vaccination
3. A police clearance certificate

Every UEM member is asked to upload the (digital) application of their


suitable candidates to the UEM homepage
until Thursday, 15th May 2025 by the latest via
https://www.vemission.org/en/education/seminars/conferences/application-
form-volunteer-program

Who finances the program?


UEM is covering flight ticket to/from Germany. Other preparatory costs should
be split between UEM and the respective member church, if possible. This
includes costs for the application of visa, travel expenses during Visa
application (flight, bus, taxi) and a preparatory German Intensive Language
Course (4 months maximum).

During their stay in Germany, all volunteers receive a monthly pocket money
and are part of social security (health security e.g.). South-North Volunteers
receive free accommodation and food allowance in their placements.
Furthermore, all volunteers can visit a language course in Germany.

Whom can I contact if I have further questions?


Christina Bergmann
United Evangelical Mission
Department Training and Empowerment
Rudolfstrasse 137
42285 Wuppertal
Tel +49 (0)202 / 890 04-148
Fax +49 (0)202 / 890 04-179
bergmann-c@vemission.org

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