“My journey to your understanding” is a virtual exhibition of work produced by users of the Šid, Bujanovac and Principovac reception centres in the course of the “Empowering refugee women and children” humanitarian project conducted by the Ecumenical Humanitarian Organisation between 2022 and 2024.
We launched this project with the aim of empowering the most vulnerable categories of the global population – refugee women, children and unaccompanied minors – those of them currently on the move through Serbia and temporarily accommodated in these centres. The goal is to contribute to their better integration in transit countries and at their final destination.
Accordingly, project activities are aimed at strengthening the educational competencies of children and young people, developing the social and occupational skills of women, and achieving a greater degree of awareness in local communities for the needs of the target group, thereby pursuing a more equitable coexistence with them in the places we live.
Project activities are conducted by our local officers in their ongoing work in the Safe Corners which have been set up at these reception centres. The main purpose of the work is to create a safe environment that provides opportunities for play, learning, encouraging creativity and developing working skills. Hence our focus is on the following areas:
- educational activities – Serbian and English language-learning classes, mathematics, geography classes, and support for children and young people in keeping up with online classes in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders in this area;
- creative workshops for children, where children can express their creativity and develop their potential through a varied thematic approach;
- occupational and creative activities for women, aimed at developing skills that will positively impact their employability;
- sports workshops for accompanied children and unaccompanied minors.
The goal of this work is to empower and enable the immediate participants of the workshops to renew their own capacities and thereby rebuild their lives; to develop the supplementary and occupational capacities of women as well as psychologically empowering them, and to facilitate the increased inclusion of children and young people in formal education through educational activities, thereby pursuing a basic right of the child, the right to education.
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