Refugees
Start date: Sep 1, 2014,
End date: Feb 29, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project foresees the involvement of 5 volunteers are highly motivated , with profile of a legal nature , prepared on for human rights in ICT and practicing activism applied to the solutions of the needs that emerge in the project and in the community. Volunteers from Spain, France, Portugal, Scotland and Ukraine will meet with the reality represented by the so-called " third world countries " represented by asylum seekers and refugees in the host project .
Refugees is a project that will last a year , will be developed in Rieti and all activities will take place near the historic center of the city.
Refugees is a project that promotes solidarity and self-help for refugees who arrive in our country and in the city of Rieti, which are in a state of great distress . Asylum seekers and refugees are welcomed into the reception center of the " Samaritan " and volunteers will be engaged in activities aimed at facilitating their integration path alongside the operators of the project.
Specifically, the activities include:
- Meetings with asylum seekers and refugees , which will lead to the establishment of a relationship of communication among peers, informal exchange of cultural backgrounds , history , experiences,
- Volunteers will serve in rotation in the food distribution center of St. Clare and the listening center , where they will be useful to the community and those in need.
- The accompaniment and support in routine activities that beneficiaries must attend daily at the various offices (eg, mail or grocery shopping )
- Participation and organization of intercultural awareness as refugees the day , the week against racism, the day of volunteering , in order to produce information materials by themselves designed and built.
- Volunteers will have free choice in the expression of their creattività and in bringing innovation in our project , create events , productions materials (short films , photographic exhibition, narrative book of their journey in Rieti), with the support of the operators.
The volunteers will gain the skills and knowledge with the method of " learning by doing" , co-working , and more , adding gradually and simulating the work of operators . We have considered their natural propensity for solidarity and self-help , having chosen this project, and we have selected the content and activities in our opinion, interesting and motivating in order to make them actively participate .
Refugees aims to :
1 - awareness , grow and responsabilmnte engage young people in the community and the current problems of our historical reality ,
2 - Enriching and donate new and different tools to the local community by creating the conditions for an exchange,
3 - Create the rating plate group , an environment more welcoming , supportive, healthy and active in order to facilitate insertion into the territory.
4 - Responding to the specific needs to all actors in the process creating the potential opportunity to improve their future .