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Sign
Up Now Project
Sign Up Now Project
The
group has recently been given a £650 Learning Promotion Grant
from NIACE Dysgu Cymru for a project that will work to promote
community learning opportunities for asylum seekers and refugees.
We will work with a refugee community group (South People’s
Projects) and Newport City Council’s community learning and
library service to promote and develop community education
courses that are affordable and accessible by refugees and
asylum seekers in Newport.
What will we do?
We
will allow the education providers and the community group
to meet; allowing the refugee community to understand which
courses are on offer and enabling the Council to understand
the needs of refugees. We will work with South People's Project
to produce their own newsletter like the Fafarara one for
Refugee Week (right)
The two parties
will also work together to organise taster courses and an
awareness-raising event. In the end we hope for refugees and
asylum seekers to have access to regular 10 week courses in
ESOL – English for Speakers of Other Languages.
The newsletter should be completed by the end of August 2005
and the taster sessions should take place in the middle of September.
If you are a refugee or asylum seeker and interested in taking
part in making the newsletter then email Norbert on norbertmbu@yahoo.fr.
You can also contact Norbert if you want to add a story to the
newsletter. If you are a member of the public interested in
volunteering to support the ESOL courses then contact Judy Marris
via 01633 656656.
What else do we hope to achieve?
The project’s further aim is to facilitate a two-way process
of citizenship: firstly by helping refugees gain English skills
and other knowledge to become active UK citizens and secondly
to demonstrate to the general public that refugees and asylum
seekers make a positive contribution to the community. It is
intended to document the project on film so that it can be promoted
further.
More info
Sign Up Now is an annual campaign to
· Promote participation in learning
· Increase access to information, advice and guidance
Adult Learners' Week is co-ordinated by NIACE Dysgu Cymru in
partnership with a range of agencies working at national and
local level.
You can contact us at:
3rd Floor,
35 Cathedral Road,
Cardiff CF11 9HB
Tel: 029 2037 0900 www.niacedc.org.uk
The
group has recently been given a £650 Learning Promotion Grant
from NIACE Dysgu Cymru for a project that will work to promote
community learning opportunities for asylum seekers and refugees.
We will work with a refugee community group (South People’s
Projects) and Newport City Council’s community learning and
library service to promote and develop community education
courses that are affordable and accessible by refugees and
asylum seekers in Newport.
