Holländareplatsen 8
41501 Göteborg
Sweden
- Democracy and community development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Main missions:
All children:
-should have the same opportunity to feel secure, joy and a have fellowship in their lives.
-should have the same opportunity to get educated
-sholud have the same opportunity to find their place in society, where they can contribute.
Main Objectives:
We shall
-work for the integration/inclusion of marginalized children.
-work for the empowerment of children to become leaders in their own lives
-work to give children the kind of support they need to overcome their difficulties, to feel secure, find fellowship and to thrive in their lives.
Our biggest project at this time is writing a method manual on how to work with unaccompanied refugee children, for the the swedish community life/third sector activities.
We are collecting the experiences of sports clubs as well as the boy/girlscouts and any other activity that has made experiences in working with unaccomapnied refugee children. The main focus is to empower the very well extended swedish network of after-school-activities. We firmly belives that this is one of the key solutions to the current situation in our society. The target group is very resilliant but also sensitive. To have engaged adults in a youths life can make all the difference. It can save the individual from exclusion of society and in some cases tragic outcomes and also save society the money every child in exclusion is costing.
The first step contains gathering of experiences and writing them down into the method manual. We have both depth and width in the manual. Some of the sports team coaches work with unaccompanied refugee children professionally and have deep knowledge in the matter. And we have found several societies and sports teams that have worked successfully with this gruop for several years.
The second step will be spreading the method manual and educating the educators (SISU, who is the organisation in charge of educating the swedish community life).
Waytogo wants to contribute to the network through, amomg other things, the work concerning unaccompanied refugee children. As we see it, Sweden can set an example in working with the target group in the community life/third sector activities, since we have a very well developed network. And in this we can build experience and share this experience with the world and the ALF-network.
In Sweden we have built a network of those working with all kinds of subject matters concerning unaccomapnied refugee children. This network and the knoledge it contains can we connect with the members of the Network.
We want to join the network to build our knowledge in the international arena and to extend our network.