A Bridge for Migrants

D. has been working in the social sphere for many years, and notices the challenges faced by those engaged in helping others. The resources are never enough for all. And yet the needs of the people remain.

One of the groups that D.’s attention was focused upon was the one of the migrants. Having legal rights is all well and good, but how to guarantee them if one does not know they exist? Funding schemes may exist, social support organisations, and much more – but how to find out about them, especially with limited knowledge of the local language?

And yet, there is a group of people who have both the knowledge and the time – the retired. Can there be a way that these two groups could assist each other? Together with a mixed group of participants form both sided, D. worked on this challenge and came up with an idea.

What if the locals, who are already retired, could become agents for integration – something like social mediators? They have the opportunity to be useful, to help others, and this will relieve overburdened state resources. The idea quickly developed in a concrete concept, then a project proposal, which hopefully will find its concrete implementation together with the team that developed it.