1.education - Formal and informal education: Assistance in learning, Enabling young people to work, Adra’s small school, Buddy program One of the major ideas of establishing the ADRA`s Community Center was to facilitate and support, in cooperation with others, the process of migrant integration into local communities. One of the major tasks has been to provide support in overcoming all hardships and problems which children and parents are facing on enrolling school in the new environment for the first time or after some time. In any case, the experience of starting school, learning rules, establishing routines, literacy training, spending time with the children of the same age (including the children from the local community who attend the school), and, generally speaking, spending time creatively outside the Asylum Centre, where they are accommodated, have a considerable impact on the overall development of children. Some of them never had the opportunity to attend school and others did not attend it regularly. Community Center is giving them back the opportunity, hoping for these activities to compensate partially for the things they missed in this important period of life. The Center does not aim at developing tolerance only. The objective is others to comprehend that we need people who are different from us so that we can understand better what it takes to be a human being and that we can get to know ourselves better. Maybe this sounds strange, but it is true. Enabling young people to work - The aim was that they improve the existing skills and acquire a certificate enabling them to be more competitive in the job market in any country they end up living in. We included 45 unaccompanied minor asylum seekers residing in the Asylum Center in Krnjača. Each of them improved their knowledge and skills through vocational training courses. Adra’s small school -informal education - For the sake of preparing pupils for the new 2017/2018 school year, in summer 2017, ADRA organized the summer school. The objective was to prepare children aged 7 - 14 for primary school, which was to start in September. A total of 50 children were organized in 4 groups, based on the age of children and the assessment of their prior knowledge. The groups corresponded to the age of children attending school from the first to the fourth grade. The syllabus they followed included the classes of Serbian, English, math, art, music, sports, recreational activities, as well as an IT workshop. The intention was to prepare them as best was it could be for the school rules. Buddy program - a part of the project “Effective Integration of Refugees, Migrants and Asylum Seekers in Formal Education” which ADRA Serbia implement has the aim to integrate and connect the children of migrants and asylum seekers with the local children from the territory of the City of Belgrade. In cooperation with domestic organizations and citizens, social occasions are organized jointly. The aim is that children and young people from different groups get to know each other and learn about each other and at the same time to learn in that process about themselves and their own way of life.

2. Indoor and outdoor recreational/sport activities - time has been spent better if games has been played and sport has been done. Numerous sports activities has been organized for the youngest beneficiaries as well as for a little bit older ones. In summer months, ADRA`s games without borders, which have been most attended, were a real treat for our beneficiaries. Female and male participants were divided in teams and competed in various skills related to games without borders. Within the ADRA`s Community Centre, beneficiaries can use outdoor football, basketball and volleyball courts and they can also play table tennis, billiards and cricket. There is also school of football, led by professional coaches, within recreational and occupational programs. Sports activities are the chance for the children from the local community and the beneficiaries accommodated in the Asylum Center in Krnjača to spend some time together and get to know each other better, especially through the organized football tournaments.
Boys and girls from Krnjača Asylum Center attended music workshops. In 2017, 30 of them got really involved. The number of beneficiaries grew along with the number of instruments. Even bands were founded. The first one was made up of young Kurdish and Iranian boys who were very keen to learn to play the guitar and sing songs of the Middle East. The band was active until its members left Serbia after several months. A boy from Center demonstrated outstanding talent for music. His parents strongly supported him and bought him the guitar. After diligent preparations, he was able to appear on the stage of our Center in front of 100 people. At the same concert, the girls from the three-person band called “Afghan girls” sang traditional and modern songs in the Persian language.

3. Occupational activities for mothers and women - Women and girls make a particularly sensitive group of migrants and refugees. They are exposed to dangers of sexual and gender-based violence along with all other challenges on their way to Europe as well in their countries of origin. Men can also be affected, but the experience has proved that this problem is more often faced by girls and women. Moreover, differences between the cultures which they knew in the countries they come from and those they are experiencing now make an additional reason to be isolated. Bearing in mind all these things, from the very beginning, particular attention to girls and women was payed. In the beginning, they made only 9% of the total number of beneficiaries. Towards the end of 2017, the number of them went up to 40%. That fact is ascribed to diverse programs in which they participate without men. The initial space became small, so in June one of the biggest halls, covering 120 m2, refurbished and redecorated was given to them in order to have safe and comfortable space, with a room for children. While mothers enjoy activities they have chosen, their children are taken care of by our qualified colleagues. In October, this space became part of the Women’s Center. The Center involves the activities of the so called economic empowerment (helping women make their own money), informal education, different recreational activities, as well as those activities that have a positive impact on emotional and mental health, including psycho-logical and legal counseling. Only female personnel work with girls and women – a teacher, a psychologist, a specialist educator, an expert for gender issues, a legal counselor as well as interpreters of Persian and Arab language. Since it was opened, in the first 12 months, the ADRA`s Community Center has been visited by 366 girls and women and more than 200 of them have participated in the activities of the Women’s Center.

Legal and psychological aid The legal aid in the ADRA`s Community Center exists since the date of its establishment. It has entailed provision of free legal aid, briefings and counseling, as well as various workshops of legal empowerment in human rights protection, rights of refugees, statutory rights and human trafficking prevention rights. In short, all of this raises awareness among the people Community Center exists for about all legal tools they can count on to find solutions for their existential problems. Since the establishment of the ADRA`s Community Centre, beneficiaries, and especially families with children and unaccompanied minors, have had a possibility to ask for psychological counseling services. By time, it became obvious that there was a need for permanent and stable psychological support to members of various groups. Apart from the psychological support being implemented through psychological counseling or psycho-therapy, various types of occupational therapy work-shops have been organized as well in the ADRA`s Community Centre. This type of activities is designed for the most vulnerable group being women (mothers and young girls) and unaccompanied minors.

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