Southwark Refugee Project Ltd
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Contact
Mr Abdul-Malik Elobeid
Email
Project funding
£64,463
Funding round
SRP Aim
The overall aim of Southwark Refugee Project Ltd is to help refugees, asylum seekers and naturalised refugees living, working or studying in the LB Southwark and adjacent boroughs to settle in, integrate with the wider community and improve the quality of their lives.
Parent – to – Parent Programme
The project aims to address intergenerational conflict amongst refugee and new migrants' families. As this is relatively a new problem that has emerged within refugee communities there is a gap in services to help explore and support families. There are no parenting courses in other languages in LB Southwark and the adjacent boroughs and as many parents are not fluent in English they are isolated with their problems to deal with. This project will provide socially excluded parents with community language-based parenting courses which will enable a better living environment for young children and enable parents to access community resources and help solve their own problems.
The project is meant to deliver 6 courses of thirteen training sessions each accredited by the Racial Equality Unit (REU). The course has been designed to provide participants (8 males and 8 females) with parenting skills training in their mother-tongue languages. The target communities are the Somali, Latin American, the Arabic speaking groups, the French speaking communities, Amharic/Tigrinya speakers and English speaking Common Wealth Africans. Additionally, the project will offer advice and support through the means of peer support – an alternative approach to service provision. The parent facilitators will know more about available services in the area and how to enable parents to access them.