RESPECT Refugiados

Trainings

Training on psycho-social needs of refugees

This training on Psycho-Social Needs of Refugees is a project aiming to increase the quality for training activities on Psycho-social needs of refugees.  The project is done in collaboration with 3 other european organisations: IHAD (Turkey), IMIR (Germany) and CEIPES (Italy) . This partnership offers exchange of experiences and knowledge between the organizations who have trainings for human rights activists working to provide psycho-social support to refugees. The direct target group of the poject are human rights activists and the trainers of human rights activists. The main result of the project will be a website and a training on psycho-social needs of refugees and migrants.

European Youth Training

This project was focused on Youth European organisations aiming to provide high quality training courses on soft skills and management abilities for international projects. With this initiative, and with the support of 12 partners in 9 countries, RESPECT promoted and encouraged young students to become a well prepared generation of professionals and managers of civil and social organisations, empowering their capacities in projects and campaigns aiming to improve aspects of our society.

Awareness Raising

Awareness Raising through Comic Books

Racism, Xenophobia, Intolerance, Cultural shock takes nowadays different forms and the fight against it must also be diverse.  Everyone knows that comics have had for several years and is still having a high power of attraction on children and teenagers.  It constitutes an excellent and fun way of raising awareness on  refugees and refugee issues – amongst people and mainly children and teenagers in Europe.

We have prepared a series of comics dealing with different aspects of a refugee/asylum seeker’s life (such as living in a refugee camp, resettlement, fleeing their own country, etc….). The comic was printed out in 7 different languages and distributed through our partners to schools, student associations, universities, NGOs working with children, civil societies etc. of 7 different countries.  The purpose was to spread awareness in a fun way about refugees and refugee issues amongst European children, teenagers, young adults and adults.

European Awareness raising campaign on refugee issues

In collaboration with 8 NGOs in 10 different countries all of them under RESPECT’s coordination, this project`s outcome was a very interesting material to explain children and young students the reality of the refugees in the world. We have already printed and distributed these leaflets, entitled Refugees and Exile in schools and youth centers all over the continent in several languages.

Letter Exchange Programme

Refugee Letter Exchange

RESPECT introduces a class of non-refugee students to a class of refugee students of similar age and academic level by pen-pal letter exchange. Letter exchange can be conducted as a class, or a club activity. RESPECT has developed an ever-growing list of working relationships with schools servicing refugee, internally displaced persons (IDPs), and otherwise war-affected youth from around the world. Countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea, Kenya, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of  Congo. Since the start of the project, RESPECT introduced over 3 000 refugee students to non-refugee students around the world. Exchanging letters with refugee students is very powerful. RESPECT hopes the experience will be personal, educational and inspirational.