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We recently came across an event at a bouldering wall in Hamburg, Germany named "Sei Boulderpate für einen Tag!" or "Be a bouldering mentor for a day!" The premise of the event? To bring refugees from shelters in the city to the wall with the aim of helping them to experience something new and meet local people - their bouldering mentors - in a friendly, welcoming environment. Is this something we could do more of in the UK perhaps?

To find out more about the initiative, we spoke to Verena of FLASHH - boulder spot in Hamburg.

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In reply to UKC News:

So good to read, thank you - I'm planning a similar thing this winter in Munich but with Skiing and kids.

Lots to do... hope the UK is ready.

Hannah

In reply to UKC News:

Really good, hope it's something the locals wall round here would look into, I'd be more than willing to show someone a bit of bouldering/fail in style.

In reply to GuyVG:

The mini works would be perfect for this kind of thing. Happy to give my time to help out if anything happens...

In reply to UKC News:

This will presumably come in handy for climbing over the fences at Calais.

In reply to UKC News:

I've climbed at FLASHH a handful of times whenever I've been in HH on a business trip and it's a really friendly centre. It's great to see them doing something practical like this to bring a bit of relief and respite to people trapped in a really bad situation

In reply to UKC News:

Definitely a good idea and definitely something that we should do to help integrate and help others less fortunate, I also often wonder what more we could do as a community for those already living in the UK? Probably a classic case of I just need to do something, rather than wait for a local wall to set it up ...

In reply to Chris Harris:


Brilliant - how can anyone down vote this?