RESPECT Refugees Europe


RESPECT (Refugee Education Sponsorship Programme Enhancing communities Together) Refugiados is a Spanish NGO working to raise awareness among international youth about refugees and refugees’ issues, encouraging activism and further empower refugee children and communities through letter and cultural exchange. It works also intensively in capacity building, increasing the skills and knowledge of local NGOs and volunteers in developing countries as well as in Europe, by giving online trainings.

The three main areas of activity of the organisation are awareness raising, online training courses and letter exchange programme. RESPECT is trying to show European youngsters through the awareness raising campaigns what it means being a refugee, their life and difficulties.

The online training programme consists in courses in NGO management, professional competences, becoming a professional trainer, conflict resolution, refugees and internally displaced persons, repatriation. Its aim is to help improve the knowledge and skills of NGO staff and volunteers to work in the developement and humanitarian aid field.

RESPECT letter exchange programme consists in introducing classes of non-refugeestudents to a class of refugee students of similar age and academic level by pen-palletter exchange. Letter exchange can be conducted as a class, or a club activity. RESPECT has developed an ever-growing list of working relationships with schoolsservicing refugee, internally displaced persons, and otherwise war-affected youthfrom around the world. Countries include Sierra Leone, Guinea, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Contact details:

Carrer Lleida 9, 3-1
08930 Sant Adria de Besos, Barcelona, Spain
Phone:  +34 93 150 39 39
Email: respect@respectrefugiados.org
Website:  www.respectrefugiados.org