The Augsburg team includes Merve Kanbur, Albert Özkaya, Isabella Helmi Hans and Fabienne Moukara.
ZAM e. V. was founded in 2020 as an umbrella organisation for 12 migrant associations in Augsburg. We represent the common interests of the member organisations. The main goal is to professionalise the work of the associations, to strengthen the structures and to make the diversity of the people living in Augsburg visible at city level.
What we offer
As ZAM e.V., we offer community-based counselling to people in Bavaria who have experienced discrimination, especially racism.
We work on an outreach basis and are flexible in terms of time and place, even outside office hours.
What is special about our team is that all our consultants come from the community itself. We also work closely with Hamado Dipama and their office in Nuremberg. Together we cover the whole of Bavaria.
Merve Kanbur
Merve Kanbur is an educationalist currently studying for a Masters in Heterogeneity in Education at the University of Augsburg. She is herself a woman of colour, uses the pronoun she/her and has a Turkish background. Merve Kanbur has links with the Muslim and Turkish community.
Albert Özkaya
Albert Özkaya has a degree in political science and also works as a German teacher at the Kolping Bildungswerk in Augsburg. He is fluent in Aramaic, English and German. He has an oriental/semitic background and is also a member of the Mesopotamia Association in Augsburg. He is well connected in the Assyrian/Aramaic community and in the Augsburg city society.
Isabella Helmi Hans
Isabella Helmi Hans is an activist and educator. She specialises in counselling people affected by racism and LGBTIQA* hostility. As a queer person of colour, she is part of the black, afro-diasporic, Latin American and queer communities.
