RESPECT Refugiados

RESPECT is committed to raise awareness among international youth about refugees and refugee issues, encouraging activism among youth and further empowering refugee children and communities through letter and cultural exchange and providing educational courses on international cooperation and NGO related issues. We work also intensively in capacity building, increasing the skills of local NGOs and volunteers in developing countries.

Here you can find a summary of the main areas we are involved in:

Trainings

Online courses

Not only the refugees’ daily situation is very complicated and difficult, but so it is the role of NGOs and individuals working to ease their living conditions. The role that they are playing is extremely important, since they have to help without causing negative effects. It is essential that all those working in development and humanitarian aid know well the situation that is lived in those places in which we are trying to help.

For this reason we have developed a series of online trainings on refugee-related topics, human rights, soft skills and NGO management for all those professionals and volunteers who want to learn more about these subjects.

RESPECT University  

RESPECT University facilitates educational opportunities for post-secondary school refugee students, using the services of qualified tutors worldwide. Tutors work with five to six refugee students per course in a wide range of subjects, using both postal services for correspondence. Courses take about a year to complete, with students receiving diplomas and individual references on successful fulfillment. The students are selected by RESPECT local Coordinators as being those most enthusiastic and likely to benefit from the programme.

This programme is coordinated by RESPECT International. If you want to know more about it please visit the website RESPECT University.

Awareness Raising

International campaigns to raise awareness on refugees issues

In partnership with different NGOs and European associations, RESPECT is creating and distributing booklets, posters, leaflets and other PR materials in schools, youth associations and universities to raise awareness on refugees issues. These awareness raising campaigns try to offer to the public, in general, and to the yougsters, in particular, information about subjects that normally are not offered by the academic curricula.

Letter Exchange Programme

The aim of this programme is to introduce refugee and non-refugee students through pen-pal letter exchange program. We receive letters from refugee students which we then forward to a non-refugee school. The students then reply to the letters, and new friendships are born.

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 the 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.This project is the basis for a later on further collaboration between schools. When kids have been partnering for a certain time with their refugee penpals, they turn out to other types of collaboration, and for example many schools start sending books, school materials or even computers.