This September has been AuPairWorld's birthday month and an exciting range of online and offline events have been organised to celebrate the company's 20-year anniversary.
- AuPairWorld's newly opened headquarters served as the venue for a networking and anniversary party on September 6 that brought together numerous representatives from business and politics with the company's management and staff. Under the motto "It's the connection that counts", the event was a tribute to 20 years of successful operation at AuPairWorld and a rededication to the project of developing and implementing creative online solutions for diverse business purposes. As managing directors Heike Fischer and Ann-Kristin Cohrs remarked, "The idea behind AuPairWorld of using the Internet to bring people together in useful and mutually beneficial ways continues to be at the core of our mission – for au pairing and for other activities."
- The new headquarters building – completed in April 2019 with 700 square metres of office space, state-of-the-art office infrastructure and ample space over 3 stories for the company's 30-member team –itself marks a major milestone in the growth of the company.
- AuPairWorld also organized an anniversary event for au pairs from the Kassel region on September 21. Again the company's new headquarters was used to host a group of au pairs hailing from Britain, Vietnam, Columbia, Taiwan, Russia and Albania. The young people spent the afternoon comparing notes about experiences in their host country, enjoying each other's company and providing material for the production of a new video "Au pair in Germany: The inside view".
- On the AuPairWorld website a special 20-year anniversary promotion campaign and contest "#weconnecttheworld" is highlighting the great work that au pairs and families do bringing people from different cultures and countries together (www.aupairworld.com/...). Proceeds from the campaign will be donated to the charity SOS Children's Villages together with money raised at the anniversary event.
- The time leading up to AuPairWorld's birthday month has also been an occasion for the online platform to launch a range of diversified services to help its users with different aspects of the au pair stay. New and updated platform partnerships provide au pairs and families functionality for finding language courses (https://www.aupairworld.com/en/families/extras/language-course-search), for purchasing au pair insurance (www.aupairworld.com/...), for online au pair training (www.aupairworld.com/...) and for working directly together with on-site au pair agencies in countries such as the Netherlands and Switzerland.
