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The Welcome Project – a model way of integrating migrants in Lisburn City, Northern Ireland. The Welcome Project, mainstream funding from OFMDFM, has been delivering services to migrants and other members of the local community since its inception in 2006. It was established following the EU’s expansion and a sudden increase in numbers of migrant […]
“Sometimes we come to a place and we have no desire to come… and when we go we feel we have lost something precious…. but we people have become accustomed to them and they have given us many things that do not forget their kindness and their love for us” ~ B.A. These are the […]
Dozens of new groups and projects have sprung up since last year in response to the migrant crisis. We would like to share some of the methods we have been using over the past decade to help those groups ensure that their efforts are as effective and meaningful as possible. Refugee Radio was established by […]
I’m sitting writing this listening to the animated chatter of the English lesson going on beside me. The class is run by the Big Issue for it’s vendors and MILK hosts it every Monday. I’m happy to see it so full because it wasn’t always like this, there was a long time at the beginning […]
Just as a warming fire draws people in, Focal Point is a Community Voice Project that brings people from differing cultures together, giving them a voice in the way services are provided and the skills and opportunities to engage with one another and the local community in Merthyr Tydfil. More than one culture Focal Point […]
