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09.05.2007

A meeting of the EuroMi team was organized in Chudobczyce. “The 12 Disciples Programme” participants were also present at the meeting. These are people who had been in a difficult situation and are now managing foundations and setting up self-help groups. They have become leaders who are able to efficiently support work migrants in need, living on the streets of London and Dublin. The programme participants were provided with training on the situation of Polish work migrants abroad and they were presented an agreement signed by the Barka Foundation and the Hammersmith and Fulham London boroughs.
08.05.2007

Local democracy in the city of Poznań
A meeting with Ms Olga Maush, a Glasgow University Phd student took place today on the 8th of May 2007 in the seat of the Barka Foundation. Tomasz Sadowski has presented the development of local partnership in the area of Poznań and Ms Olga Mausch has provided the EuroMi team with a short training on the situation of Poles living in Scotland.

19.04.2007

A training for all the leaders going to work as street workers in the London Centre for Migrants Integration took place on the 19th of April 2007 at 3pm. The leaders who have gone through  the training have had experience in working with the socially excluded and are leaders of community houses or have their own associations. They will work with all the Polish work migrants who are destitute , homeless or addicted. The leaders will take part in a programme called " The 12 Disciples"-the programme is based on the work and experience of people working and living In the Barka Foundation community houses. Those who have experienced alcoholism and homelessness themselves are more efficient in convincing others who are now victims of addiction and live in the streets that they should begin therapy. Polish leaders from the community houses will try to convince homeless and addicted work migrants that going through an adequate therapy, living in the community houses and going through a process of training the communities and other organizations offer, will help them solve their problems

 

 

  

 

Barka Foundation for Mutual Help was established as a response to increasing social problems during  transformation years. Barbara and Tomasz Sadowski wanted to create conditions in which the “forgotten and unwanted” could have a chance for personal growth and social development.

Today we wanted help polish homeless (but not only) in UK. Thinking about them we've created polish oranization in London - BarkaUK.

 

 

Due to the difficult situation of “work migrants” from the New Accession Countries (A8) in Great Britain, the Barka Foundation was invited for cooperation by two British organisations, Simon Community and Housing Justice UNLEASH, in August 2006. In September a Polish – British Mission for Employment was established. The project is aimed at providing assistance to “work migrants” who fail to find employment, end up on the streets and are  subject to quick degradation processes. Soon after launching the PBME project, we were contacted by various organizations and institutions from other Member States which face the same problems as the United Kingdom. In October 2006 creation of a European Migrants’ Integration Network (EuroMI) was initiated. The basic principles of the network were included in the appeal to the European Commission. The Euro MI representatives contributed to the Closing Conference of the European Year of Workers’ Mobility which was organized by the European Commission in Lille in France (11.12.12.2006). They presented  the basic aims of the European  Network  for Migrants Integrationwhich is being created. (short report) We would like to encourage you to engage in the EuroMI network and log in on our website in order to support our common initiative. If you log in, we will send you a newsletter on the most recent developments of the network and migration issues in general. You will also have the opportunity to decide about the priorities as well as co-create projects for migrants’ integration across Europe.