The municipality of Bösel hosted the first edition of its “Wirtschafts-S(ch)nack” (“Economic Chat”) business breakfast in April 2025, bringing together local employers to discuss the region’s skilled-worker shortage — in the Cloppenburg district alone, roughly 2,000 positions remained unfilled at the time.
Kamruddin Shams and Amin Hassam of the Shams Family Foundation, together with Suleiman Hemani of the Hemani Family Foundation, shared how their foundations connect German employers with prepared candidates from Pakistan and Central Asia — all three having emigrated from Pakistan to the USA and built careers there before turning to this work.
Dirk Gehrmann, head of the Cloppenburg district’s Economic Development Office, rounded out the morning with an overview of the funding programs and support services already available to local employers exploring this path.