Dear readers,

Welcome to the fifth e-newsletter of the LIME (Labour Integration for Migrants’ Employment) project. Months go by and the partners of the Consortium continue to work towards a more inclusive society. We are excited to bring you news on our activities!

Keep scrolling to stay updated on the ways the LIME project is moving forward to promote the integration of young Third-Country Nationals in the labour market!

Enjoy your reading!
The LIME Consortium

What are the next steps?

The Capacity Building Workshops are meant to be national and international gathering of socio-economic key actors with the aim of elaborating ways to spread and replicate the MEIC (Migrants Economic Integration Cluster) model at the local level all over Europe thanks to synergies among private and public actors and stakeholders.

Given the significance of CBWs for the aim of our project, we are happy to tell you that they are scheduled to take place in the following places and dates: Strasbourg the 21^st of January 2021, Madrid the 4^th of February 2021, Rome the 25^th February 2021 and Brussels the 24/25^th March 2021.

However, given the current situation, it is likely that all the workshops will be held online, based on a participatory approach. We really hope that this news could make you enthusiastic as we are despite the difficulties we have gone through!

Nevertheless, this update is not the only thing we wish will make you happy. In fact, during this couple of months, ALDA continued conducting interviews with participants and educators taking part in the LIME Project. The result, of which you will find the links below, is a series of articles on the inspiring stories that young migrants and people working with them have told us.

We sincerely invite you to read them to see how much the LIME project has been able to change their lives and to discover their dreams and ambitions. They have also given us several suggestions on how to continue our work in the project, so do not miss them!

We are also starting to work on a video that will put together the highlights of the interviews so that you all will be able to meet virtually this fantastic group of people we had the honour of chatting with.

Finally, in the next few weeks we will be sending a questionnaire to all the actors that joined the Community of Interest of the LIME project. With this we wish to involve them in contributing to the elaboration of the MEIC model. We hope that in the next issue of the newsletter you will be able to read some of their most inspiring best practices and get to know the partners of the Community of Interest better.

What is Asociación Guaraní?

Asociación Guaraní de Cooperación Paraguay-España is a Spanish association which aims at contributing to the transformation of society and improving people’s lives. This is why their actions are concentrated on three main fields: immigration and integration, all groups at risk of social exclusion, and gender equality.

With the motto “Calidad, calidez”, “Quality, warmth”, the Guaraní Association is made up of a team of volunteers and professionals with different backgrounds ranging from lawyers, psychologists, social workers and intercultural mediators to teachers, researchers, health professionals and biologists. They have one key thing in common: they work according to a humanistic perspective because they believe that an individual is the actor and protagonist of the change in society they fight for.

In the last 3 years the Guaraní Association has started its development thanks and through different European initiatives and in a short time it has managed to exchange experiences, good practices and acquire new knowledge together with other entities from several EU countries such as Italy, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Belgium, France, Austria and the UK. Based on this experience, the Guaraní association is currently working on several projects within the framework of the AMIF, Europe for Citizens, Erasmus+ and Fundamental Rights programmes.

The projects they follow aim at promoting the integration of migrants in all the sectors believing this is a bilateral process between the migrants and the whole society and its institutions. This is why they work towards a global focus of the integration focus by looking at it according to the principles of equality, citizenship, interculturality, mutual exchange and interdependence. They aim as well as giving assistance and services to all kinds of people at risk of social exclusion so as to promote their socio and labour integration and help them get autonomy and auto determination.

What is the added value of Asociación Guaraní?

• The elaboration of multidisciplinary routes against exclusion through comprehensive intervention plans, constant monitoring of the objectives and the results and a personalised support.
• The extensive professional experience of more than thirty years in the immigration sector and thirteen years managing a Centre for Participation and Integration of Immigrants “CEPI” of the Community of Madrid
• The elaboration of pre-labour skills meant to improve individual competences and the establishment of individualised insertion plan according to the specific needs of each person in active search for employment
• The support, without any king of discrimination, of all people in vulnerable situations such as unemployed people, recipients of income and aid, immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees, families, minors and the elderly, women victim of violence, disables people.

News

#LIMEstories – MEET BERTA, an educator of the LIME pilot project in Madrid who has been working with Pinardi for 7 years

#LIMEstories – MEET MONICA AND MARGHERITA who with their great experience work in CIES to create paths of inclusion for migrants!

#LIMEstories – MEET PAOLA, a Honduran girl to whom the quarantine has changed life, for the better!

#LIMEstories – MEET UMBA, determined and tenacious, she participates in the LIME project with a great ambition!

#LIMEstories – MEET ELI, a 25 years girl from Venezuela who is participating in the LIME project with positiveness and a lot of energy!

#LIMEstories – MEET ELIO, a dedicated educator of the LIME project!

Get inspired!