Care
@Nadia @Alberto I am also ready to talk about the failure of care systems helping the Syrian refugees here in Armenia.
Since September I’m working for Armenian Redwood Project, helping several newly arrived vulnerable families to integrate, acting like a social worker, finding them accommodation, placing the kids at schools and orientation/training for the adults to find jobs to become sustainable in the long run.I am also writing blog posts for ARP about the process of integration and possible paths to sustainability as well as success stories of the Syrian refugees in Armenia.
I also focus on the facilitation of information communication for the refugees(available services, employment, etc) in order to create a social system of communication through an online platform. There are many organisations claiming they help the refugees but the impact is non-existent so most of the times the newly arrived refugees are not aware about available services and assistance which results in the majority of them leaving the country in disappointment and failure to find a job/accommodation (the ones that manage to get a visa go to Europe and the ones who don’t have money go back to Syria).
We currently work on a new fundraising campaign(here’s the link to last’s years campaign ) which will be out this Christmas. The founder of ARP(we are not an organisation but solely a coordinating platform) has a large network of Armenian Diaspora that supports the cause but we need to act quick now as UN considers cutting the subsidies for the refugees in 2016, and if we don’t raise enough money some 10.000 refugees will be left without financial aid here in Armenia.
By the way Armenia is the third European country with the biggest number of displaced people from Syria.