Sichtbar machen

84% of people in need of care in Hesse are cared for at home. Due to a variety of burdens, caregiving families, especially women, are largely excluded from public life and active participation in democracy.

The project highlights participatory ways to relieve the burden on family carers:

• Making informal care work and its actors more visible to the public.

• Promoting solidarity and willingness to volunteer for community care, stimulating concepts for the development of civil society initiatives, and promoting opportunities for community involvement.

• Promoting partnerships between stakeholders in the city and neighbourhood, especially communication between informal carers (such as family members and relatives) and formal carers (such as care services); we initiate networking among those involved.

Through its activities, the project conveys the message that care is not a private matter, but a responsibility for society as a whole and an indispensable part of the common good.