Project description
The aim of the project is to integrate a group of older people and people with experience of migration through a volunteer-based support network.
Project goals
- Connecting two groups living in Poland: seniors and migrants.
- Creating a support network based on voluntary work of seniors and migrants.
- Involvement of seniors and migrants in joint activities for other elderly people living in Poland.
- Publications and seminar summarizing the Model for Integration of Seniors and Migrants.
Activities
- Integration meetings for volunteers and project volunteers.
- Workshops and trainings on intercultural issues and learning Polish as a foreign language for seniors.
- Online seminars, one-on-one contact.
- Workshops, training and coaching for support network volunteers.
- Study visits to voluntary organizations.
- Workshop meetings of a group of seniors and migrants in order to develop joint activities for seniors from different backgrounds.
- Publications and seminar summarizing the Model for Integration of Seniors and Migrants.
Results
- On-line workshops and trainings on intercultural issues and learning Polish as a foreign language for seniors
- Workshops, training and coaching for volunteers - participants of the support network.
- Integration meetings for participants of the support network.
- Seniors initiative group, meetings for seniors and immigrants to aid Polish language learning (one-on-one)
- Workshop meetings of the mixed seniors and migrants group – developing ideas for open classes for seniors from different backgrounds
- Open classes for seniors at organisations and institutions working for and/or with seniors. The proposals may include learning about different countries’ cuisine, stories about customs (e.g. holiday-related), learning national and regional dances, etc.
- Development and provision of the publication Model Integration of Seniors and Migrants.
- Organizing a project summary seminar
Partners
„ę” Association of Creative Initiatives (Towarzystwo Inicjatyw Twórczych “ę”).