Hosts responsibility for refugees in need

Project summary

This is a social responsibility project that takes “REFUGEES and IMMIGRATION” in its centre with the approach that everybody deserves a life as stated in UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS. For more than ten years of research in Europe and beyond, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has documented serious violations of children’s rights arising from immigration detention of children. Children may be arbitrarily detained, held in cells with unrelated adults and subjected to brutal treatment by police, guards and other authorities. They are often held in poor conditions that fall far short of international standards governing appropriate settings for children deprived of their liberty. Children in immigration detention include unaccompanied migrant children, children in families (including young infants), asylum-seeking and refugee children, and children whose parents are refugees or people seeking asylum. The project came out of the most serious social problems in recent years as stated above. It is a very serious issue for all of us. We cooperated with the institutions from the countries being more and more affected by the problem. Turkey and Bulgaria are the countries where the problem is dramatically increasing. The Italian school has refugees among their students and they have experience in dealing with the problem of integrating these people and children into the European culture. DE and ES are the other countries which are familiar with the issue as the members of the European Union. The project will not solve the problems but it will increase social awareness in terms of understanding those people, helping them in their difficult situation. Children are the main case to be dealt with. As they are the most innocent actors of the issue, it is our responsibility to do our best to take care of them. Our starting point of this project is humanism. We have to show our respect to those people because we live in the same world. This must be seen as our common responsibility. As educational institutions we can't solve this very serious problem, but we can manage to provide social acceptance and manage to give people in need stronger motivation/hope for a happy life. Furthermore, this project will be very useful for our students while developing their social skills, social sensitivity and autonomous personalities. The project will examine the following issues: -forced immigrants -the causes and consequences of forced migration -the impact of immigration detention on children -insufficient sensitivity towards immigrants It will also promote and develop: -increasing social responsibility campaigns for migrants -social consciousness, social awareness , social sensitivity, tolerance, empathy for the immigrants and refugees -destroying stereotypes -entrepreneurship and volunteering skills of our students The project activities will be applied at five schools, the schools in the neighbourhood, NGOs in a local area, local community. Students, teenagers, parents, people in local community will be the main actors. There are five stages of the project: - Searching immigration and refugees issue -Why do immigrants and refugees move to Europe searching for a happy life? -Getting familiar with refugees and immigrants (taking videos and preparing documentaries of them) -Organising social volunteering activities for them including as many people as possible -Disseminating project activities effectively in local, national and international areas to create spreading waves in Europe and across the world NUMBER AND PROFILE OF THE PARTICIPANTS Teenagers: 500 active+ 500 indirect : 1000 Teachers: 50 direct + 50 indirect : 100 Members of NGOs: 50 direct + 70 indirect: 120 Administrative staff: 20 direct + 20 indirect: 40 Parents: 300 direct + 300 indirect: 600 Local community : 300 Total number of beneficiaries : Direct:920 Indirect: 1340 : 2260 RESULTS AND IMPACTS Through our project the five partners intend to create both short-term and long-term tangible and intangible results and to achieve the biggest possible impact to future projects and policy processes such as leading students to overcome lack of social skills, setting up the project website in order to provide continuous access to the general information of the project activities, progress and results, writing newspaper reports and creating on-site panels or leaflets to inform non-specialist audience about the project background and the main results, communication, and cognitive skills of students, cultivating effective partnerships between trainers, educators and community organizations so as to amplify our collective impact on the students.