WHAT WE DO
We are an organisation committed to raise awareness among international youth about refugees and refugee issues, encouraging activism and further empowering refugee children and communities through letter and cultural exchange. We work also intensively in capacity building, increasing the skills of other NGOs, professionals and volunteers in developing countries.
Here you can find a summary of the main areas we are involved in:
Online Trainings
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 they 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, conflict resolution, for all those professionals and volunteers who want to learn more about these subjects and be better prepared. RESPECT Refugiados [more...]
Awareness Raising Campaigns
In partnership with different NGOs and European associations, RESPECT Refugiados 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 or are not covered by the media.
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. After the first contact the letters are received directly by the participating school. The letters can be written in French, English or Spanish.
Our organisation together with RESPECT International 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. RESPECT Refugiados is coordinating the exchange in Spanish.
Building awareness of world issues through videos and discussion and growing a personal connection between refugee and non-refugee students through letter exchange lead rather naturally to a desire to do something to help.
Are you interested in joining our program? Write us so we can explain you all the details.
