This week two groups of assylym seekers have graduated a course learning about life in Latvia. In the span of just over three weeks the participants attended eight lessons. The training took place both in the Asylum Seekers Accommodation Center in Mucenieki and in Riga, in the Association "Shelter "Safe House"".
Training covered ample amount of relevant topics: immigration policy, job opportunities, health care, education, traditions and culture. Both groups also visited the Latvian National History Museum to get a first glimpse of Latvian cultural heritage.
Alvis Šķenders, a lawyer at the "Shelter “Safe House””, says about these groups: "The participants showed genuine interest in the topics discussed in the lectures. They were particularly interested in the apartment rental market in Latvia and job opportunities".
The classes were conducted by specialists of the "Shelter "Safe House"" as well as different experts of relevant fields of health care, emplyment ect. Among them should be mentioned the lawyers of the Latvian Human Rights Center Edgars Oļševskis and Liliana Garkalne, the expert of the State Employment Agency Juris Liepiņš, the head of the National Health Service Customer Service Center Lāsma Matjuka, as well as social workers Anita Feldmane and Iluta Samsonova.
On February 26, 28 asylum seekers received certificates for completion of the training course.
The project "Latvia - a country by the Baltic Sea!" is implemented with the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund 2021-2027. year period support, grant agreement no. PMIF/13.3./2023/1/04. The total financing of the project is 302,765.06 euros, which consists of 227,073.79 euros from the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund and 75,691.27 euros from the Latvian state budget.
