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Scalabrini Centre – Executive Summary

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The Scalabrini Centre operates from the Cape Town’s central business district offering welfare, development  and advocacy programmes for refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and local South Africans since 2002. The Scalabrini Centre runs under the leadership of director, Miranda Madikane who reports to a board of 9 Trustees (IT2746/2006) chaired by Scalabrini Father Mario Tessarotto and mentored by Bishop Lawrence Henry. The centre is registered as a non-profit organisation with the South African Department of Social Development (021-079 NPO), and as a Public Benefit Organisation with the South African Revenue Services (PBO930012808).
 
Since opening in 2002, the Scalabrini Centre has offered welfare and development assistance to an estimated 48,000 refugees or migrants. It is our mission is to strive to both alleviate poverty by promoting development in the Western Cape and by offering assistance to refugees and their children. The ultimate aim is that of fostering integration between local communities and refugees / migrants and thereby breaking down xenophobia. We do this through a variety of programmes which we have slowly developed over the past 7 years these include: 
·          The Welfare Desk (2002),a project offering the expertise of 2 full time staff members who control the distribution of a very small emergency grant system, blankets, clothes and dry foods while offering referrals and assistance on access to disability grants, documentation, schooling, shelter and medical care. The desk also advocates for human and refugee and labour rights on a case-to-case basis and through a new project that tracks, monitors and where possible responds to allegations of hate crimes;
·          Lawrence House (2005), a children’s home dedicated to offering 22 abandoned and orphaned foreign children with a stable home environment where they can attend school and heal the trauma of separation from their families with the ultimate aim of ensuring safe family reunification;
·          The Migration Research Project (2005) which offers awareness raising workshops around issues of human, refugee and workers rights and promotes knowledge sharing between partner organisations and other Stakeholders through the compilation and distribution of publications, papers or reports focussed around topics such as the intersection of the labour market and migration or root causes of xenophobia.
·          Skills Trainings (2006), a subsidized Digital Literacy programme (accredited with ICDL) runs from the centre, a free English Language school offers 4 levels of language training, a free monthly Financial Literacy workshop, a free Introduction to the Hospitality Industry workshop and a free Life Skills programme teaches basic skills needed to finding and keeping a job in South Africa. 
·          The Employment Help Desk (2007), which offers information on ways to access casual and part-time work, newspapers, websites and communications with labour brokers are publicized. Free fax, telephone, internet and CV drafting is available each morning and advice with legal referral and /or preparation for CCMA hearings around labour disputes is offered. A special internship programme at local schools for 60 foreign educators is also managed from this project.
·          The Health Project (2009) includes free HIV/Aids testing, VCT counselling and HIV/ AIDS support groups to those who need to manage their health, fresh produce for those receiving anti-retroviral therapy and Acupuncture/Acupressure treatment by registered doctors. Our counsellors also offer individual trauma counselling and run Art Therapy sessions. Our soup kitchen cooks hot meals twice a week offering nutrition to weakened bodies;
·          The Scalabrini Centre offers conference facilities to other organisations to support the sector’s network and infrastructural support to smaller refugee based organisation (DRCASA, Global African News, UTRS) and houses a tailors’ cooperative.
 
Currently the Centre receives some 1000 people through our programmes each month. As an organisation, the Centre works to assess itself by speaking to our clients, though a suggestion box and through written evaluation forms (used for our training programmes and workshops) and adjusting our work and designing new programmes to their stated needs.   Additionally, our staff attends monthly team-building sessions with a specific focus on sharing information to ensure that our team of 26 employees, 8 full-time volunteers and about 22 part-time volunteers are all aware of the latest matters of concerns, focus areas and new services or workshops. 
 
 

Summer infant baby monitor for new mothers

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Vacation season or summer season is termed as family season.  Commonly   families and relatives  go for  day out  and  few  go at  seashore. Spending  holidays  with your  school, colleges and universities along with their families  is a great fun  to enjoy.

Misfortune unexpectedly happens with  every person .  Some families with small babies  who are at the  point  of crawling or loves to run and walk freely then this situation is known for you that your baby walks away somewhere and you are rushing every where to find your baby.

But now many families have adopted an advance technology and bring a beautiful safe device for their babies called baby monitor.

Summer <a href=’http://www.safebabymonitors.info’>infant baby monitor</a> is cheap and best for all those mothers who can’t afford baby sitter or they are responsible to manage their homes and for this they go out with their babies and began to shop necessary goods like provisions and groceries and sometime their cloths.

If you have a problem that your child walks away every time or your schedule is so busy that taking care of you baby becomes difficult then digital baby monitor is best for you. You just need to fit on the clothes of your baby. It contains a camera which transmits result on another device on your hand and has a clear bright monitor and from this you can easily locate your child.

Summer infant baby monitor is safe for your kids and user friendly. It came with variety of designs. For a quick review, you can search online or visit <a href=’http://www.safebabymonitors.info’>www.safebabymonitors.info</a> for latest designs and models.

Resettlement

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Hi my dear group i am cal hamdi madi am student of refugee camp i live in zone 5.student in kakuma they can’t get schooler especialy chance to learn universty most of Ethiopian student that chased from cupsy or college just they west their time without learn

health

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i am very glad to talk about life in camp where people living in bad mood sun is shining on them no water even to get food is hard they even die because of lack of water you know that water becomes other issues because one person get 12l per day and it is not suffient for daily activity because we need to wash , to cook , to have bath and washing even home materials so we are requesting all the body to help refugee to over come this problem because this can leads to high mortality

computer training

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first and foremost, i would like to introduce my self to the world ,am by the name called abdiqadir and i live in kakuma refugee camp and am so glade to be a member of this group .and at the same time am doing a computer training in a camp.

Call for Papers – The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, Student Publication – Deadline: 24th October 2010

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As the most recent graduates of the MSc of Forced Migration program at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, we are excited to announce the launch of our free electronic publication The Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration (OxMo) written, reviewed and edited by students. OxMo aims to engage with issues of forced migration within the broader context of human rights through monitoring political, legal and social developments that pertain to displacement, asylum and return. We set no geographic limitations. Ultimately, we endeavour to contribute to strengthening the human rights of forced migrants by bringing attention to the many difficulties they face as well as positive developments taking shape. In addition to this, having identified that the student community remains a highly valuable yet under-tapped intellectual resource, we hope to establish a forum in which students may contribute meaningfully to the wider academic discourse and to participate in transnational dialogues with like-minded others.

Our biannual publication will place great emphasis on: presenting critical analyses of forced migration issues, projects and policies in relation to international organizations and the work of NGOs and national governments; highlighting innovative practices and developments geared towards countering forced migration predicaments; reporting best practices, examining local/grass roots developments, and fostering a space for students, who themselves have been or are currently forcibly displaced, to present their perspectives on current situations. OxMo will be divided into five sections:

  1. Policy
  2. Law
  3. Field Monitor
  4. First Hand Experiences (restricted to those who have first hand experienced of forced displacement), and
  5. Academic Articles. 

We anticipate that as well as our student-based readership practitioners, academics, NGOs, government representatives, general interest readers and forced migrants alike will find our analyses insightful and critically engaging.

To this end, the editorial team would like to invite current students, including recent graduates, undergraduates and those on vocational programs to get involved by submitting short articles of no more than 1000-1500 words in length (for the sections of policy, law, field monitor or first hand) or academic articles of no more than 6000 words in length (inlcuding bibliography) on an issue that relates to any of the topics and areas mentioned above. Please indicate the section under which your submission should be considered. We encourage astute, critical, thought provoking pieces! (Don’t be shy if you haven’t published before or if English is not your first language!)

 

The submission deadline for our first issue is October 24th, 2010.

We invite all of you to take part in this exciting venture and to encourage other students who are working on issues of forced migration, wherever in the world they may be, to get involved and help promote greater understanding of the plight of millions of forced migrants.

 

Kind regards,

Clara Straimer (Co-Editor of First Hand Experiences)


Please send submissions and any questions to oxmofm@googlemail.com and a member of the editorial board will get in touch with you as soon as possible.