"Since all broadcasters are producing their shows on a voluntary basis, FREIRAD sees itself as a best practice example of how volunteering can be used as an instrument for integration. Let us introduce to you one of our Austrian partner organizations: FREIRAD 105.9 Freies Radio Innsbruck.
As a pilot action Initiative Minderheiten Tirol is contributing to a film project of tyrolean filmmaker Eric Bayala, that involves a volunteer in the process of the film production.
Last Week FREIRAD had a visit from Verein Multikulturell and 4 participants of the Verein Multikulturells Basic Education got an impression on how to become a volunteer for community radio.
"Verein Multikulturell‘s main objectives are to promote professional, social and cultural inclusion of migrants and to enhance intercultural dialogue and education." Let us introduce to you one of our Austrian partner organizations: Verein Multikulturell.
Cidis is implementing two training courses, one in Perugia and one in Terni, organised in weekly meetings/get together, opportunities to learn more about voluntary work done at a local level.
Our colleagues from Leibniz Universität Hannover presenting some of the outcomes of the VAI - Volunteering among Immigrants - project.
The objective here is to encourage good practice in the volunteering sector and to support immigrants in volunteering with longer-term commitment and development potential.
"Through volunteering I have achieved more than given away. I have learnt so much… language, friends, places, new experiences, more that i could ever wished for!"
About 40 representatives and members of the civil society in Thessaloniki participated in the networking workshop «Refugees, Migrants and Volunteering: on the road to inclusion», which took place on Wednesday 10 July at LAB29A of SolidarityNow, in the context of the AMIF project Volunteering Among Immigrants – VAI coordinated by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
“I received help from people in the Centre after I arrived in Athens”, Hameed is saying. “right now, they are helping me to sort out my asylum papers. So, I would also like to help other people. Because I am a refugee myself, I understand how difficult it can be, for an elderly person especially, to find their way around Athens or take the bus to a place they have never been before."
