GMG-Aupair Agentur is an au pair agency based in Witten, Germany. We place young people from African countries and from India who want to learn German or already speak it, and we stay with both sides for the whole au pair year. Open your page.
au pair
A young person aged 18 to 26 who lives with a host family for a year, looks after the children and learns German.
host family
A family in Germany that welcomes an au pair into their home for up to twelve months.
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You live with a host family in Germany for up to twelve months. You look after the children, help a little in the household and attend a language course.
You fill in the form on this page. It has three short steps.
We get in touch with you, preferably on WhatsApp, and get to know you.
You talk on video with families that fit you. Both sides decide.
We send you the au pair contract and the invitation. You apply for the visa at the German embassy responsible for your country, for example in Dakar if you live in Gambia and in Abidjan if you live in Côte d’Ivoire. We help you with the documents.
Your host family picks you up. We stay available for you all year.
Married applicants can also become au pairs.
You need the A1 certificate for the visa, for example from the Goethe-Institut in your country. It must not be older than one year. If you learn more German before you travel, you find a family more easily and settle in faster.
We talk with you about what the placement costs and which terms apply in our first talk.
Every family fills in a questionnaire, sends photos and talks to us before you meet them.
She is available around the clock and speaks to you in your language when needed.
If there are problems, we mediate between you and the family. If necessary, we look for a new family for you.
On arrival you get a welcome pack with contacts to other au pairs.
We talk about that with you in our first talk. There you learn the costs and all terms of the placement.
€280 pocket money a month. It is not a salary. Your host family pays for your room, meals and insurance, plus €70 a month for the language course.
You need at least level A1 and a recognised certificate that is no older than one year. You can take the exam at a Goethe-Institut, for example in Dakar or Abidjan. More German is an advantage.
At the German embassy responsible for your country. If you live in Gambia, that is the embassy in Dakar, in Côte d’Ivoire the embassy in Abidjan, where you also need the baccalauréat. The fee at both embassies is 50,000 FCFA (as of October 2026). For other countries we tell you the right embassy in our talk.
As a rule you pay for the journey there and back yourself. We talk about it with you in our call.
Between 18 and 26. You must not have turned 27 when you apply for the visa.
Talk to us first. We mediate between you and the family. If there is no solution, we look for a new host family for you.
Yes. We place women and men. Married people can also become au pairs.
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For example when
An au pair lives with you for up to one year, becomes part of the family and brings their language and culture to your dinner table.
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An example week. Your au pair helps for no more than 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week, and has at least one and a half days and four evenings off every week.
27hours of help
of 30 at most
You send us your request. We call you, talk through what you need and send you our offer and the questionnaire for host families.
You receive profiles that fit your family and decide for yourself who you want to contact.
First contact is by email or WhatsApp, then you talk on video. If it is not the right match yet, we send more suggestions.
We prepare the au pair contract, the letter of invitation and the documents for the embassy, and we support the visa application. After arrival you register your au pair with the residents’ office and the immigration office.
Over 95 %
of our au pairs’ visa applications are approved. If a visa is refused, there are no additional costs for you.
These amounts are the same for every host family in Germany.
In addition
We tell you the one-off placement fee in the first call.
Start your requestAs of October 2026. Pocket money and language course according to the leaflet of the Federal Employment Agency, insurance as a guide value. Leaflet of the Federal Employment Agency (in German)
Married couples, unmarried couples, registered partnerships and single parents can all be host families.
About €389: €280 pocket money, €70 towards the language course and around €39 for insurance. On top of that come room, meals and travel costs to the language course. We tell you the one-off placement fee in the first call.
That depends mainly on the visa and differs from country to country. The German Embassy in Dakar, for example, often states five to six weeks or longer once the application is complete, the embassy in Abidjan at least four weeks. The waiting time for an appointment comes on top. These are statements by the embassies from October 2026, not guarantees.
Then there are no additional costs for you. So far over 95 % of our au pairs’ visa applications have been approved.
No more than 6 hours a day and 30 hours a week, babysitting included. Tasks are childcare and light housework, for example taking children to school and picking them up, playing with them and preparing meals. Nursing care for sick or elderly people is not part of it.
You and your au pair can talk to us at any time and we mediate between both sides. If a problem cannot be solved, we take care of a new placement and suggest another au pair if you wish.
Only if German is spoken as a native language in your home. If German is your family language but not your native language, the au pair must not come from a home country of the host parents. The embassy in Abidjan reads the rule more strictly: no family member may hold the nationality of the au pair’s country. We check this with you in the first call.
Basic German at level A1 with a certificate is required for the visa. Many applicants keep learning before they travel, and in Germany they attend a language course.
Yes. The condition is that at least one child under 18 lives with you.
GMG-Aupair Agentur is run by Grace Marielle Gouanou. We are based in Witten, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Our au pairs come from African countries, for example Gambia and Côte d’Ivoire, and from India. What matters to us is that they want to learn German or already speak it. Partner agencies there select and prepare them, with courses in childcare, first aid, housekeeping and German.