Mission
To provide encouragement, education and assistance to newcomers during their integration through community based engagement, while also actively supporting networking, intercultural exchanges and social awareness between arriving and receiving cultures.
Goals 2022:
Launch a mobile phone application and web portal to support refugees with autonomous language training (LANGO)
Re-establish regular Café Lingua to provide asylum seekers and refugees with non-formal language acquisition
Increase cooperation and coordination between organisations in Belgium with similar and complementary goals….
Develop a training manual to better equipt refugees and asylum seekers to navigate business start-ups in Belgium (Re-Start)
Develop an online training programme to be used by organisers as well as refugees and asylum seekers to increase literacy, numeracy and digital skills (Skills4Integration)
Bring rurally situated refugee centers together to unroot domestic violence with awareness-raising campaigns and educational recourses (Unroot)
Quotes
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.”
— Albert Einstein
“To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.”
— Tennessee Office for Refugees