The project runs from October 1, 2019 to March 31, 2021
We assume that it is necessary to support migrants as individuals, to help them organize themselves throughout the European Union. In this way, integration will not take place only through their contacts with institutions, where as petitioners they are the weaker party and exposed to possible discriminatory practices, but also through contacts of local institutions with representatives of self-organized groups of citizens. Such an effect will favor the empowerment of individuals and foreign groups in Europe, and facilitate the expression by migrants of their situation and problems. Finally, the goal is to find such good practices that strengthen the knowledge of members, volunteers of organizations undertaking activities on their behalf also on a micro scale (local, district, housing estate). Focusing on local NGOs, the project will enable the exchange of experiences in the field of involving migrants in non-formal education.
We gain experience laboriously and permanently on the issue of influencing people from non-obvious environments at risk of exclusion. We reach individuals with whom we establish individual relationships. This happens in each of the partner organizations. In this way, we gain the trust of people whose persuasion to participate in our activities is important to us, we gain a kind of consultants, people coming from communities at particular risk of exclusion. Depending on the country, we draw inspiration from our consultants, whom we also show around our home, our districts and housing estates. Our volunteers derive from these contacts a unique knowledge about other people, about cultural differences, which are difficult to learn from the media message because they result from the specific, intimate knowledge of individual individuals. We want to share these meetings in order to enrich each other, at the same time creating perhaps a foundation for deep acceptance of newcomers resulting from getting to know other people. Our exchange is to enrich them and us by strengthening our competence as guides around our own home.
