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“How different is different”: classes and exhibitions on rites of passage as a means for more tolerance in intercultural society.
“Passages”: Recording 50 life stories of new Belgians, translating them into 1/ a book 2/ workshops where the life stories are presented as a means of communication in intercultural society, focusing at sameness rather than difference in human lives.
“Marriage Migration”: Analyzing the phenomenon of marriage migration in Ghent, Belgium.
“Integrating Together”: Offering new Belgians the possibility to train their language skills and broaden their social network with a coach. Offering students in social work the possibility to deliberately gain skills as a coach, as well as to bring them in contact with other cultures.
“Growing older in a changing society”: Practice oriented research focused at the life stories of elderly new Belgians as a means for productively diversifying health care knowledge and practices.
Elaboration of a diversity policy for our Faculty

We established a women’s house in Afghanistan who was chosen by Le Figaro and Arte television, as the best humanitarian project of 2005. In this house women can have education, medical care and professional help to establish their own couture atelier.
We also support micro-credits in South-Africa.

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1. Collecting instruments: Music Fund’s first task is to collect instruments. In 2005 we organised the collections ourselves, but since the beginning of 2006 concert organisers in different European countries (France, Austria, Great Britain and Germany joined Belgium in this), take charge of this as part of concerts, festivals or other events.
The second phase is where the complex work begins: the instruments are collected, checked by experts and repaired and all details are carefully entered into a database.
2. Distributions: Around Christmas 2005 a first shipment of repaired instruments arrived in the Middle East by lorry. These musical instruments were then handed over in person to the different partner schools in Palestine (Gaza, Ramallah en Nablus) and Israel (Nazareth). Since then several large shipments have been organised in the Middle East and in Africa ( Mozambique + DRCongo)
3. Training:Since 2006 we have called in the help of a number of experts to set up initiation workshops in repairing, tuning and building musical instruments in the local music schools in South. This is a unique opportunity for Music Fund to complete a capacity building project that supports music education in a very concrete manner. Since 2006 we also provide longer internships in Belgium and at the partnerschools. Recently we also supported a student to obtain a diploma at a reputed school in France and will continue to offer other students this opportunity
4. Repair workshops in the partnerschools: In 2007 Music Fund started running repair workshops in several of its partner schools: in Ramallah in 2007 (in collaboration with other associations), in Maputo in 2007, in Nablus in 2008, and finally in Kinshasa in 2008. These repair workshops are an important part of our partnerships, because not only do they make it possible for the music schools to maintain their own musical instruments independently of Music Fund, they also create incomes as musicians from outside the music schools bring their instruments to these workshops for repair. They are an employment opportunity for people who have followed training courses in instrument repairs via Music Fund.

Le rapprochement intercommunautaire ainsi que la lutte contre l'islamophobie sont les deux principales activités. Nous avons pour projets de faire des brochures, clips vidéos et campagne de pin's afin de rendre nos activités plus impactantes.

Our activities are threefold: providing a platform for concerted acions and debate - current issues are: asylum policies, multiple discrimations, decision making, combination of professional and family life, social security, tax law, family law, bio-ethics and reproduction, education, sustainable development etc.-, informing and sensitising the civil society and lobbying for gender equality.

As one of the fastest growing influential Network with over three thousand (3,000) members nationwide (Belgium), OMANIAE is a non-partisan Organization, which operates in Ghana, Senegal, Guinea and Cameroun… etc. but currently active in Belgium and Ghana.
Our grassroots networks help concerned citizens to use their voices to speak up against irregular migration.
OMANIAE stands as a bridge between Irregular internally displaced undocumented migrants and the government across Europe (Belgium), that is by Campaigning and creating awareness through our empowering skill training program which is to economically enhance our members.
To Sensitize and circulate information concerning the risk which involves migration through the desert or sea. Members who have successfully completed the free skill training program willing to set up a small scale enterprise will benefit financial support through the OMANIAE financial Scheme (O.F.S).

OMANIAE is a non-governmental organization (NGO) established as a result of concern about the conditions of entry, stay and the life of undocumented migrants, the lack of a comprehensive migration policy and the ever-growing incidents of xenophobia. 1. To help generate training programs for undocumented migrants. 2. To reduce the fatalities through irregular migration over the desert and sea by educating African migrants about the real condition living as undocumented migrants in Europe.