Refugee community
Groningen Verwelkomt
Refugee welcome and integration foundation · Groningen
A Groningen foundation founded in 2015 that connects refugees with local residents through buddies and neighbourhood communities. Its site shows no dated activity after 2017.
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About
Stichting Groningen Verwelkomt, which presents itself in English as Groningen Welcomes Refugees, is a foundation in the city of Groningen. Its own pages say it was founded on 1 December 2015. Its stated purpose is to help refugees feel welcome and at home in the city. It describes its position as an intermediary between residents and refugees rather than as a service provider, and frames its work around an intercultural society open to people of any belief. In practice it supports groups of residents who organise social and cultural activities, pairs refugees with buddies, and brings people together in what it calls communities. Its method page describes a programme built on those buddies and communities, running over about nine months, with sessions on set themes alongside the personal contact, after which participants are encouraged to stay involved as volunteers. It states that there are no paid positions and that volunteers get expenses back only as far as the money allows. Visitors are asked to join a community, take a volunteer vacancy, or donate towards the cost of a place in its programme.
What they offer
- Support for resident led initiatives welcoming refugees
Good to know
- Check first that it is still running. The most recent dated content on its own site is from 2016 and 2017: its board is published as at October 2016 and its method page describes the programme as starting in early 2017.
- It publishes no contact page, email address, telephone number or postal address anywhere on its site.
- It works through volunteers with no paid positions, and describes itself as an intermediary between residents and refugees rather than a service provider.
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