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Raising Public Awareness of Refugees and
Migrants in Support of Their Integration

• "Human beings are all members of one body.They
  are created from the same essence.When one
  member is in pain,The others cannot rest.If you
  do not care about the pain of others,You do not
  deserve to be called a human being."
• A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi
• ( 13th century Persian poet from Shiraz / Iran )
• Etched on the Court in Hague

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Project Idea

• Disseminate information about migration policy of
  Slovakia and EU
• Change inherited stereotypes of intolerance and
  xenophobia
• increase public tolerance towards asylum
  seekers/refugees/migrants coming/living in
  Slovakia
• improve professional skills of civil/public
  servants working with migrants/asylum seekers

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Target groups

• Broader public
• Schools
• Civil and public servants
• Territorial self-governments
• formal and informal organizations and
  institutions
• actors in the field of employment services
• Police uniforms with migrants

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Strategy

• - Developing informational materials based on
  survey of the public opinion (media,
  publications, enquires, and etc)
• - Creating informational brochure
• Schooling curricula
• Study of needs for training the civil and public
  servants
• Producing methodology for training
  uniforms/civil/public servants
• Providing workshops/trainings for uniforms and
  public/civil servants
• - Nation-wide promotion
• - Communication with other stakeholders

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Development partnership

• Goodwill Society (lead partner)
• Slovak Humanitarian Council
• Migration Office to the Ministry of Interior
• Association for Education of Self-governments

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Goodwill Society

• Provides social, psychological and material
  assistance to vulnerable groups
• Conduct legal assistance to asylum seekers and
  refugees
• Border monitoring
• Monitoring activities of uniforms
• Assisting juveniles refugees (develop and manage
  a centre)
• Integration of refugees
• Promote migration issues
• Development/humanitarian aid to development
  countries
• Helping handicapped and disadvantaged groups

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Activities of the Migration Office

• Developing concepts legal documents for the
  Slovak migration policy forming the national
  policy in cooperation with relevant government
  liaisons
• Cooperating with stakeholders of migration policy
  
• Involvement in the process of asylum procedures
• Analysing maintaining databases related to
  asylum seekers and recognized refugees
• Gathering information and evidences about
  refugees and their country of origin
• Implementing projects with UNHCR and IOM, other
  NGOs
• Communication with border and alien police units
  in asylum procedures
• Assisting refugees integration
• Coordination with government liaisons in
  promotion of migration policy
• Providing information to migrants and their stay
  in Slovakia

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• Activities of SHC GENERAL
• Serves as national volunteer center of
  humanitarian and charitable organizations
• Represents its member organizations in the
  legislation process
• cooperates with national and regional governments
  
• Publishes a specialized magazine for the
  volunteer sector, including a supplement for
  disabled groups
• Cooperation with UNHCR
• Organizing providing humanitarian aid

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Association for Education of self-governments

• Provision of educational activities for the
  administration of self-governments
• Development of curricula and trainings
• Certifying training curricula
• Evaluation and recommendations on training
  methodologies
• Impact assessment of educational courses
• Partnering with organizations of different
  sectors in order to increase knowledge of local
  administrations

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CURRENT STATUS

• Activities
• and lessons learned

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Achievements

• Trained 19 tutors providing professional and
  public lectures
• Provided workshops for 981 lrepresentatives of
  public institutions, municipalities and police
  units (268 trained police uniforms)
• Over 12 000 students get acquainted with
  migration policy and refugee issues in Slovakia
  (secondary schools, universities, sanatoriums,
  youth clubs and NGOs)
• 1 mayor is willing to provide a communal flat to
  refugees
• Delivered information brochures and posters
• Conducted 15-20 evaluation visits/recommendations
  to lecturing methodologies/performance

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Promotion

• Documentary film based on real stories about
  integrated refugees in Slovakia
• Doc and short TV spot to be broadcasted on the
  national TV
• Maintaining www.ludiaakomy.sk
• Web forums
• Documents, useful links and related news digest
  published on www
• Produced brochures, leaflets and posters to be
  printed more
• To be developed e-flier for promoting results of
  the project, the national thematic network
  (mainstreaming) and trans-national cooperation
  deliveries/meetings

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Methodology

• Didactical (informative) methods information
  analysis, presentation of legislation, special
  cases, data and surveys, using publications
  study book, laws and etc. base for discussions
• Interactive (illustrative) introduction of the
  theme to students (photos, brainstorming, real
  stories, graphics / tables - structure of asylum
  procedures, detention centres and etc), prepared
  printed outputs of the current information)
• Discussions (proactive structured discusions) -
  youth clubs, municipalities, police uniforms,
  border police
• Time frame 45 min. for students, 5-hour
  workshops for professional workers
• Demonstrative - lectures enriched with practical
  examples
• Combinative lectures follow-up by opened
  discussions
• Preparing workshops in cooperation with
  management of the border police setting
  specific topics for discussions in advance

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Public awareness Goodwill society

• Regular communication with schools
• Developing and maintaining website and web forum
• 400 informational lists addressed to
  mayors/municipalities
• Provided lectures for over 7000 students from
  host communities
• Collected schooling curricula of lessons about
  refugees
• Employers to be informed via direct mailing
  electronic versions of informational brochures
• Media contributions -Media promotion
• Integration of refugees successful integration
  stories right to know promotion of refugees
  agenda

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• Informational campaign of SHC
• training for lecturers (knowledge and
  communication skills)
• Communication with target institutions (primary
  and secondary schools, universities)
• Lectures focussed on the pfenomenon of migration
  and refugees (process of asylum status
  determination, countries of origin, situation of
  refugees in Slovakia, asistance for seekers and
  determined refugees, statistics, every day life
  in refugee centres)

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Creative discussion
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Creative discussion
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Professional workshops

• Organized 44 lectures, 9 of them for members of
  the border police
• Lectors explain the asylum system/procedures -
  raising professional knowledge
• Follow-up lecturing
• Involving executive bodies in workshops
  organization
• Co-operation with the representatives of towns
  administration

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LISTENERS

• Association for Education of self-governments
  evaluation/assessment/recommendations
• Broader spectrum of local authorities,
  pedagogues, directors of health care/hospital
  facilities, doctors, nurses, teachers, mayors,
  municipalities, offices of border and foreign
  police, other state institutions, media, NGOs,
  representatives of the church Expressed Interest
  of
• information about forms of integration in host
  communities
• social issues school, food, job, living
• finances, employment activities, public opinion
  polls, respecting laws, health issues,
  understanding/respecting new culture habits,
  interaction, communication abilities
• economic migration and impact on labour market,
  competitive work force and black labour force

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Recommendations

• Didactic information (legal terms, procedures and
  etc.) should be visualised photos, using
  data-projector, films
• Direct contact with refugees is very important
  for students (more refugees stories to be
  presented)
• Legal issues are of greater interest for adults,
  students from law faculties, international
  relations and NGOs
• Interactive contact with listeners
• Proper space
• Involve public influential people in the public
  lectures mayors, doctors, teachers and etc
• Brainstorming
• 2 lectors to be involved in one professional
  workshops/lectures for public administration
  facilitator and expert
• Argumentation using current data and statistics
• University - secondary schools

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Tallinn, 18.9.06

• Information-Knowledge-Tolerance
• Do good and throw in Dajled (river) and god will
  give it back to you in the desert.
• Saadi ( 13th century Persian poet from Shiraz /
  Iran )
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• Put out your bread on the face of the waters for
  after a long time it will come back to you again.
  
• Ecclesiastes, chapter 11 The Preacher
• Thank you for your attention
• Goodwill Society (lead partner) Slovak
  Humanitarian Council Migratio Office to the
  Ministry of Interior Association for Education
  of Self-governments
• www.ludiaakomy.sk. ludiaakomy_at_ludiaakomy.sk

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