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- Diakonie at your doorstep
- Diakonie in Bavaria
- Diakonie in Germany
- Church and Diakonie
- Digitalisierung in der Diakonie Bayern
- Professional associations
- The history of Diakonie
- People in need
- Life in old age
- Life with a sickness
- Evangelische Krankenhäuser und Rehakliniken
- Children and young people
- Ansprechstelle für ehemalige Heimkinder
- Aktiv gegen sexualisierte Gewalt
- People with disabilities
- Families
- Diakonie and church within the community
- A foreigner in Germany
- Diakonie International
- Bildungsangebote
- Gehaltsrechner
- Stellenbörse der Diakonie Deutschland und der EKD
- Mach es wahr! Ausbildung in der Diakonie
- Arbeitsvertragsrichtlinien Diakonie Bayern
- Willkommenstage für neue Mitarbeitende
- Familienorientierung
- FSJ, BFD und Co.
- Fachverband Evangelische Altenhilfe
- Evangelischer Fachverband Familienpflege Bayern
- Fachverband evangelische Behindertenhilfe und Sozialpsychiatrie in Bayern e.V.
- Fachverband Evangelische Wohnungsnotfallhilfe und Straffälligenhilfe
- Fachverband End-of-Life-Care
- Fachverband Suchthilfe
- #impfen - Corona-Schutzimpfung
- Lagois 2021
- Jahresthema 2021: #MeineDiakonie. Wir brauchen Dich!
- ConSozial 2021
- Berufsbildung 2022
- Diakonie-Wettbewerb 2021
- Diakonie-Wettbewerb 2021: Die Preisträger
- Diakonie-Wettbewerb 2022
- Kirchentag vom 7. bis 11. Juni 2023 in Nürnberg
Diakonie Bavaria in simple language
What does Diakonie Bavaria mean?
The word Dia-ko-nie
has its roots in the Greek language.
The word Diakonie means service.
Service for people in need for help.
The word also means: charity.
The Diakonie people believe in God.
For them, charity and the belief in God and Jesus is important.
Jesus has helped many people in need.
Diakonie Bavaria says:
We help people in need.
Everyone is precious.
Everyone is lovable.
Everyone is different.
What does Diakonie Bavaria do?
Diakonie is old, indeed.
It has been founded 150 years ago.
Diakonie has several tasks.
Diakonie supports everyone
who needs help.
For example:
old and sick people
people with disabilities
people from abroad
drug addicts
families with sick children
Diakonie runs nursing homes.
Diakonie runs hospitals and counselling centres.
Diakonie provides playschools and leisure activities for families.
Diakonie Bavaria is a big association.
There are almost 3000 Diakonie institutions.
More than 80.000 people contribute to Diakonie.
There are Diakonie associations in almost every Bavarian town.
Sometimes the Diakonie institution is only small.
An outpatient nursing service, for example.
"Outpatient" means:
People in need live at home and are being supported and helped there - in their homes.
But there are also huge Diakonie associations.
They are often called Diakonisches Werk.
More than 1000 people work there.
