refugees
Start date: Sep 1, 2015,
End date: Feb 28, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project foresees the involvement of two volunteers are highly motivated , with profile of social studies 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 Finland e Hungary will meet with the reality by the Forced Migrants 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 creativity 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 responsable 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 .