For Groups
Because… well, who could explain these complex issues better than affected persons themselves?
We offer the following options
"Social Engagement unites the team!"
Perrine Schober
What is the positive impact of our activities?
SHADES TOURS is Austria’s only company that specifically hires homeless and refugees as employees and thus creates a way of labor market (re) integration.
Participating in our activities enables your employees to change their perspective. The programs stimulate reflection, strengthen the understanding for maginalized groups and serve to reduce prejudices. A feedback that we often get is that our tours strengthen social skills and lead to an increased sense of gratitude and empathy.
Through our corporate activities you make a valuable contribution to the cohesion of your team and enable your employees to get involved. Ideally, having participated in a SHADES TOURS activity, it also stimulates more social engagement internally, such collecting clothes etc.
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Excursions & Team Outings
Tour on the topic of Poverty & Homelessness
Homeless people explain the issues of poverty and homelessness in Vienna
Discover the different challenges that homeless people face and the diverse possibilities that the Viennese social system offers when people need it the most.
During this two hour long tour your guide – a (former) homeless person himself – will provide you with a mix of facts and personal stories that illustrate the complexity of homelessness.
Together we will walk along the thin line of poverty and wellfare. We will pass places that are related to homelessness and will make you realize the contrasts of the city.
The content is homelessness, its challenges and the solutions that the city provides. While you are learning something new, you contribute to the re-integration of the guide into a stable living and housing situation.
This is not a sightseeing tour – this is a tour about life. It therefore is an educational tour on a socio-politic topic.
Please note that the tour does not visit shelters or expose homeless people. Our guides are affected by homelessness and reject social voyeurism, thus neither other homeless people will be showcasted, nor former hideouts are shown.
Still having questions to the tour? Check out our FAQs.
Tour on the topic of Drugs & Adiction
People with addiction explain addiction and drugs.
Our guides speak openly about their personal experiences with addiction, the reasons behind it, and the challenges they have faced in their everyday lives. They also provide a broader perspective on the significance of addiction and its impact on society.
By combining factual information with personal stories, the tour offers unique insights into a topic that is often surrounded by stigma and misunderstanding. It highlights the complexity of addiction, making its causes and consequences easier to understand.
SHADES TOURS are designed as socio-political educational experiences. Throughout the tour, participants gain a comprehensive understanding of addiction, substance use, and the social issues connected to them.
Questions such as “How does addiction develop?”, “What are new psychoactive substances, and what is the ‘Viennese Mix’?”, “What does it feel like to be dependent on drugs?”, and “How can someone recover from addiction?” are explored. Participants also have the opportunity to ask a person with lived experience any questions they may have about the topic.
The tour visits places connected to addiction and drug use. Some locations have a direct historical or social relevance, while others are included for their symbolic significance within Vienna’s cityscape.
Package prices are based on the number of registered participants—not on the number of guides.
Special group rates are available for school classes and university student groups. Please contact us for appointments and pricing.
Still have questions? You may find the answers in our FAQs.
Corporate Volunteering
(not available now)
Cooking in a homeless shelter
Corporate Volunteering Activity for max. 6 participants
Currently we offer this activity only in German – further information in German here
Would you like to introduce SHADES TOURS to your colleagues?
Gifts & Vouchers
Give your employees, clients, and business partners the gift of a SHADES TOURS voucher or a voucher package. Whether as a Christmas present or simply as a way of saying thank you, SHADES TOURS vouchers are a meaningful and memorable gift.
For inquiries, please contact: vienna@shades-tours.com
