The Latvian Red Cross is working through the AVAIL project to match up new arrivals with local “buddies”. Buddies are volunteers from the local community able to provide practical and emotional support, as well as opening doors to local networks, to help people ease their way into the new culture, society and community.
Matching partners based on location, gender, age and shared interests, ensures refugees and asylum seekers and their buddies have common ground from which to build, and means people have at least one person they know as they settle into their new community.
Operating in the UK, Ireland, Latvia and Italy, the Amplifying the Voices of Asylum seekers and refugees for Integration and Life skills – or AVAIL – project has been exploring new ways to support integration through the participation of refugees, asylum seekers and host communities. Find out more: [ Ссылка ]
The AVAIL project is co-funded by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund of the European Union.

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