Integration durch Freundschaft
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MyBuddy - Integration through friendship

The youth delegate for the congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, Weihua Wang, has initiated the integration project "MyBuddy - Integration through friendship."

The basic principle of the MyBuddy programme is that one local citizen is networked with one refugee at a time to promote integration through face-to-face encounters. The buddy couples themselves determine how much tie is appropriate and in what form the exchange takes place. The format is deliberately open and flexible in order to enable participation for a broad target group. Age, gender and place of residence as well as languages and hobbies are taken into account to identify suitable buddies.

The MyBuddy program follows the following three principles:
•           Friendly - Firendships between local citizens and refugees are strong promoters of integration and are also a measure of the success of integration
•             Individual - No standardized program can meet the different interests and time budgets of the partiipants. Therefore you decide with the MyBuddy program by yourself!
•             Uncomplicated - With the flexible MyBuddy program you can become an integration ambassador even without previous experience and with a small tiem budget.


More information in Englisch, French, Arabic and Farsi can be found on Facebook.

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