RAPAR’s
casework with displaced people who face challenges such as barriers to citizenship,
housing, employment, and personal safety
is guided always by principles of participation; we enable displaced people to
again access to the services they need, take control of their situations, and
find resolutions.
Building on our success and
experience in this field, we are holding a series of workshops where
participants learn how to enable participation among themselves and the people
around them, to achieve advocacy and effect positive change in their
communities.
There will be eight workshops
over three months, each involving 8-12 people (including both British citizens
and people seeking asylum) and each of the two final sessions will involve a
presentation of achieved learning outcomes by the participants to others. These
workshops will bring together different representatives from our diverse local
community and empower them to find ways of using active participation in order
to meet and overcome challenges.