Czech clerks, NGO workers learn to work with immigrants
Clerks and representatives of NGOs from Prague learn to work with immigrants more efficiently in a special course. The course is held within the project „Be In During Integration,“ which is covered from the European Social Fund and the state budget. Some 310,000 foreigners live legally in the Czech Republic, making up 2.5%t of inhabitants. NGO reps have repeatedly criticised that clerks, as well as doctors, teachers and policemen are not able to treat foreigners properly and that their approach complicates the situation of refugees who seek a new home in the Czech Republic, and mars their integration. The course consists of three seminars and a study stay in an immigrants‘ neighbourhood in London where the participants can test their new theoretical knowledge in practice. The first part of the course offers lectures on racism and xenophobia and the participants will learn to handle their own prejudices. Then they will study different roles of men and women in various cultures and their changes in a new environment to be able to solve conflicts between immigrants‘ traditions and Czech rules and habits. The programme of the March course will focus on harmonisation and cooperation between NGOs and state institutions.
