Barka UK, in patnership with Providence Row, will open a model Social Economy Center for Eastern European nationals in East London. The Center will be patterned after integration employment centres which Barka Network has been successfully developing in Poland for the last 20 years.

The Center will assist Eastern European nationals, who experience difficulties in the UK job market, to gain and maintain employment.

The Center will be funded by the UK Central Government, Corporation of the City of London, London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Oak Foundation. The Center will start working in April 2010.

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During 29 December ’09 - 2 January ’10, European Youth Meeting of Taize was organized in Poznan, Poland. During the meeting Barka Foundation representatives led a workshop whose message we present below. The workshop took place in the Poznan International Fair area. Everyone was welcome to participate in prayers and workshops regardless of age and with no registration.

I lost my path, please help me find the way. Human being undergoing difficulties cannot be treated as a burden only. They have a potential to become a source of dynamism and changes in society. We should not forget that we are responsible for others. During the workshop presented were stories of people who overcame adversity and currently help others to do the same. Speakers will share their experience of building trust so that those who lost hope are included in local communities.