Objectives

Training Course "Walking in Refugees Shoes" (WRS) will take place in Ioannina, Greece 15-21 July 2021.
It will be the first time a tc for the topic of the refuges will be inplemented inside a structure for accompined minors refugees as ICSD operates that center hosting 38 young minors refugees as well as we operate an Asylum information centre in the city of Ioannina. Thats for the title "Walking in Refugees Shoes" as participants won't only have a training where they will gain valuable knoweldge but they will have all workshops inside our structures with our experienced staff while they will see in first hand the mountain challenges refugees face for taking Asylum, Education, daily life and most of all a better future.

Also they will experience the very negative attitude of Ioannina local society against Refugees. Many people don´t have enough chance to meet with refugees and communicate with them. We also want to give this chance to participants in Greece. Seeing and actually living in the same place with refugees in other country would be really helpful for perception of participants, breaking stereotypes about refugees and understand their needs better. At the same time we will be able to show them that EU refugee and border policies application such as agreements and shelters inside real ones.

Participants will understand the policies of refugees better both in their country and all across European Union and they will have a chance of observing another country’s practices. Participants can empathize while developing their social and cognitive skills, can practice in foreign languages, and get rid of their prejudices against different cultures if they have so they can start studies about refugees in the organizations that they volunteer and they will keep on to be volunteer in different studies by developing themselves. While we create a more sensitive European Union youth about the refugee and immigrant policies which have been improved in the long term, these young people also contribute to peace of world by knowing closely the immigrant’s and refugee’s problems.

In recent years, the major issue in Europe and all over the world is illegal migration and the aim is to prevent this. Besides tolerance showed the refugees and and the economic and social rights given to them caused increase in this number and immigration in an economic purpose by using this way. With the historical process although the law of common immigrant policy in European Union has come into operation since June 2015, there are still significant differences in the immigration policies of European Union countries. While these difference reveal different practices and solution focus, how much functional of this focus is disputable.
Regarding the current presidency in the European Union where one of our priorities are sustainable migration and asylum policies we consider as important aim to deal with the issue of refugees and provide international overview to our participants. The young people’s knowledge about refugees’ problem in European countries is limited. To be obliged to live isolated from the society and have problem in integration reveal this lack of communication.

We considered to write this project to make the young people understand the European Union policies about refugees, to know the regulations in the country and also to provide them an environment to develop themselves.

Refugees and asylum seekers don’t benefit from the fundamental human rights on time and accurately. Not being known which services the refugees can benefit by the public and local administration is the reason of this. Also, the people working in state institutions and organizations don’t have enough information about which procedures should be performed to the refugees so this causes confusion. It can be said that there are perception difference and lack of information.

As long as the refugees and asylum seekers live together with society, they will have trouble in integration with society. The reason is that the society’s awareness level is not enough and there are various prejudices and false informations. Also, cultural differences have abig role, too. We included various activities to our project to exceed this concept chaos,to make people conscious in terms of involving the refugees and asylum seekers into the society. We regretfully witness that nowadays there are big prejudices against refugees in Greece and Europe and racist attitude is increasing. We formed our project to make the European people declare their thoughts about how we can exceed this refugee problem and to be volunteer for the world peace by looking these problems’ reasons. At the same time, we will gain discussion opportunity in the functional of mentioned policies and precautions thanks to our project.