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A paid service year in Germany

a year as a volunteer in a care home, a hospital, a school or a kindergarten

Who pays
Your host pays your pocket money (at most 676 euros a month), your insurance and your seminars; you pay your flight, your visa and your German.
Costs you
₦412,275 in fees before you go: a B1 sat at ÖSD (₦200,000), your passport (₦100,000) and the visa (about ₦112,275), and your flight. Applying is free.
How long
You apply at any time of the year. The consulate's wait, from registering to your appointment: about 3 months.
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What you need
18 or over, and your WAEC result is enough. German at A1 for the visa; most hosts ask A2 or B1. No upper age limit on the Federal Volunteer Service (BFD).
Family
Plan the year alone: on a 12-month service your husband or wife has no right to join you.

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Germany, paid training for a trade (Ausbildung)

learn a trade on a trainee's pay, with a school day

You apply to each company yourself. Rekoja walks you through it, free.

Who pays
Nobody may charge you for a training place. The company pays your training pay, and the €411 fee for the fast procedure is its own.
Costs you
At most about ₦461,975 in fixed fees: the B1 exam at ÖSD, the €75 visa and your residence permit (up to €100). And the gap, if your first-year pay is under €1,048 gross a month.
How long
From your first German class to your first day: about two years or more, if B1 takes about eight months and a company chooses you a year ahead.
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What you need
German at B1 from the Goethe-Institut or ÖSD, under a year old on your appointment day, and a training contract with a company in Germany. Your age is not a bar.
Family
Your husband or wife can join you if you were married before your permit was granted, your stay is over a year, they speak German at A1, and your room and your money are enough.

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