Team
Our team consists of around 35 multilingual counsellors, advisors, tutors, coordinators, organizers and cleaning staff.
Der Vorstand besteht aus drei organschaftlichen Vertreterinnen, welche ihre Funktionen mit großem Engagement ausführen:
Selma Demir, Najwa Duzdar und Katharina Maly
Mission statement
Orient Express is a non-profit, neutral and religiously unaffiliated organisation that combines both a women’s counselling centre as well as a language learning centre.
We offer our counselling services to women with a migration background and their families, mainly from Turkey and the Arab region. We provide information and support on issues such as: family and partner problems, violence and abuse, forced marriage, FGM and generation conflicts. Complementary to these issues we also give legal advice and counselling on issues related to employment, social benefits, alien law and others.
Our services are free, confidential, and comprehensive and are offered in the following languages: German, Turkish, Arabic and English. Our language courses with childcare services are open to women from all nationalities.
History
The organisation was established in the year 1988 by and for Turkish migrant women. In the beginning it offered leisure activities for Turkish women as well as German courses with childcare services.
Till the year 1993 the organisation was member of the umbrella association for educational and counselling establishments.
The organisation changed its name to Orient Express in the year 1996 and has been since the year 1997 an official member of the Network of Austrian Counselling Centres for Women and Girls.
