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Representatives of Six Cultures Gathered for the Afternoon of Ukrainian Culture in Ane

All in all over 50 participants — Ukrainians, Russians, Chinese, Kurds, Arabs and Latvians — listened to the emotional Ukrainian songs and a presentation about Ukraine. The bright Ukrainian handmade embroideries were also exhibited for the participants to admire. The afternoon included a game of q...

An Event Aimed at Development of Relations Between Representatives of Different Nationalities Took Place in Ozolnieki

Participants (around 40 people all in all) played games, walked the path of sensations, learned about Chinese culture and traditions, tasted food prepared according to various national culinary traditions and made the tea of friendship. Project Coordinator Gunta Viksne (Gunta Vīksne) tells that th...

355 Persons Under International Protection Have Acquired Knowledge About Latvia Over the Year

During the period from 1 July 2016 until 30 June 2017 Society "Shelter "Safe House"" has provided training courses and various information events adapted to the needs of persons under international protection and promoting inclusion of this target group in the Latvian society to 355 persons under i...

Evaluation Report on Provision of Services of the Social Worker and Social Mentor

The evaluation concluded that, upon arrival in Latvia, majority of the clients, immediately and concurrently, have had to address many situations and issues placing them in the group of vulnerable clients and exposes them to the risk of social exclusion. Meanwhile, social workers and social mentors ...

Summer Solstice Celebration in Cesis Brought Together Foreigners Living in Vidzeme

People of various nationalities — Latvians, Chinese and Russians — all together laid the table for the occasion, learned to make wreaths from wild flowers and create Latvian signs assisted by volunteers. Children played music and everyone, old and young, had a lot of fun participating in games and...

Representatives of Public Authorities and NGOs Meet with Persons under International Protection

At the beginning of the meeting, representatives of the public authorities briefly informed the audience on the current developments in the field of asylum seekers, refugees and persons with alternative status, including the changes in the conditions for granting benefits and other social support,...

An Event Will Take Place in Expectation of the Refugee Day and Summer Solstice

We will dance the Summer Solstice dances and play games together with representatives from different cultures and a Latvian folklore group. We will learn to sing Līgo songs and play various ancient Latvian rhythm instruments. We will acquaint people from different cultures with the Latvian written s...

In May, two groups of persons under international protection gained knowledge about Latvia

Each study group had the opportunity to learn about the state of Latvia, political system, history, culture and traditions and to receive practical information about Latvia and services, inclusion into the society, principles of non-discrimination, communication and religion differences, decision-ma...

More successful integration of immigrants requires competent education of specialists in the field and more active exchange of experience

The agenda of the conference included two extensive plenary meeting papers and two parallel sections of discussions. The educational event was opened by Solvita Vevere (Solvita Vēvere), the Director of the Social Integration Department of the Ministry of Culture, and in her speech she emphasized the...

Information Day at the National Library of Latvia on May 20

Each participant will have a possibility to meet people of various ethnic communities in a non-formal setting and to receive practical information on the integration possibilities in Latvia. 12.00 - 17.00 – take part in the creative informative workshops Opportunity to meet representatives of the ...

Persons under international protection visit Motor Museum

The participants of the educational excursion had the possibility to get to know the exhibition with the help of modern, multiform multimedia and design, while taking part in interactive activities themselves. The staff of Riga Motor Museum informed the participants of the tour that the museum not ...

Volunteers from All Around Latvia are Invited to Participate in “Volunteer Leadership School” Training

The training is aimed at the development of the ability of active volunteers to involve followers for the purpose of implementation of integration measures and strengthening the sustainability of volunteering in Latvia. 20 volunteers from the regions of Latvia and Riga, who are already involved or p...

3rd meeting of the European Migration Forum in Brussels

The key issue of the forum was a transition from the "crisis management" to the long-term overall strategy in the EU migration policy. A number of speakers emphasized that migration is a normal process, people have always moved from their places of origin to another place of residence. It should be ...

Information material “Latvia – a State at the Baltic Sea” has been updated

„This material will allow many asylum seekers arriving to Latvia learn about it as the new country of residence,” Project Manager Gunta Viksne (Gunta Vīksne) emphasizes. “To ensure that this information can be perceived easily and of practical use for these people, we involved also representatives o...

The Third Meeting of NGO Dialogue Platform Organisations Has Taken Place

During the first part of the meeting, Agita Misāne, an adviser of the Society “Shelter “Safe House””, shared the information she obtained at the 3rd European Migration Forum, which was held on 2–3 March in Brussels. Anita Zorgenfreija, a Senior Referent of the Social Integration and Civil Society ...

Mother Language Day emphasizes cultural diversity and multilingualism

This year interested persons from Syria, India, Cuba, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other countries of the world gathered together within the framework of the thematic event organized by the volunteers. Although more than ten different languages were heard during the event, this did not prevent the part...

Introduction of an educational material for children

The participants – asylum seekers admitted that it was their first time in the museum of natural history and the children didn’t hide their enthusiasm about the animals seen in the exhibition, including the hedgehog. Each participant had both the chance to meet and have a conversation with the aut...

Information and education activities are implemented for supporting immigrants in Latvia

Customer consultants at contact points of ICI in Riga, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Cesis and Liepaja have provided in total 940 consultations on legal and social issues to third-country nationals. The most topical issues: migration issues, acquisition of Latvian language, employment, family issues and heal...

Persons under international protection from seven countries gained useful knowledge of Latvia

In total, six groups consisting of representatives of seven countries: Syria (109), Afghanistan (21), Iraq (12), Eritrea (9), Tajikistan (3), Belarus (2), Russia (1) were taught about Latvia in the socio-economic inclusion training program. There were in total 5 classes for each training group durin...

Information on the integration of refugees is available to the public in six languages

Representatives of the organization point out that the website has two main target groups and tasks: one of its functions is to raise awareness of refugees, providing a possibility for the inhabitants of Latvia to obtain information on various aspects related to the integration of refugees in the so...

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Reflection of the Migration Topic in Media Discussed at the Conference

In the opening speech of the conference, Roberts Putnis, Head of the Media Policy Department of the Ministry of Culture, emphasised aspects of interaction of the society and media, as well as mentioned the duty imposed by laws of Latvia on the public media in integrating the society. “The legal re...

Findings from the HESTIA Project presented at the EU NREMs meeting

The phenomenon of exploitative sham marriages is to a large extent gender-based, where most of the potential victims are women originating from EU countries. The recruiters especially target women who are in financial difficulties, have a history of social exclusion, a low level of education, lack l...

Information material about Latvia for children in the Arab, Dari, French and Latvian languages has been prepared

“As the number of minors arriving to Latvia and seeking asylum is increasing, it is necessary to pay much more attention to this group with creating education materials suitable and adapted especially for this target group and by ensuring age-appropriate education both about Latvia in general and ...

Experts from 13 countries meet at the HESTIA Project conference

“A lot of discussions are taking place on issues related to trafficking in human beings, about trauma and negative consequences for victims and society resulting from this criminal offence, as well as profits which traffickers, recruiters and users gain and enormous daily counter-trafficking work im...

International Conference “Migration in the Media: the Fact, the Message, the Perception” will Take Place in Riga

The objective of the conference is to share the experiences of reflecting the refugee crisis and the issue of integration in Sweden and Latvia and raising public awareness of the impact of the refugee crisis in Latvia. Topics: - practical work of the media when reflecting the migration issues; - ...

You are invited to apply for a seminar on migration in Dobele!

The purpose of the seminar is to extend the knowledge of specialists of various municipal institutions, population of the municipalities, and the society in general on current migration processes, the asylum system, acceptance and integration of refugees and persons having acquired an alternative st...

The Study Defines a New Concept of "Exploitative Sham Marriages"

One of the major activities to achieve the project objective was a joint research covering five countries, i.e., Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ireland and Slovakia, which took place over a 20-month period. At the start of the project, national meetings were organised to discuss sham marriages and thei...

Two Saeima commissions visit the Society

Sandra Zalcmane, the head of the Society “Shelter “Safe House”, informed that 76 persons from Syria, Eritrea, Afghanistan and Iraq participated in the social inclusion training programme within the project “The Support Actions for Persons under International Protection” for three months. Trainings...

New IT tools on integration in Latvia

As of today, an updated integration website - www.integration.lv - in terms of design and content is publicly available. The purpose of the website is to compile the information on services and possibilities available to the third-country nationals, as well as for society in general, including gover...

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