Is a project of the Stichting Lingua Franca Foundation. Our aim is to promote safe and harmonious international exchanges as well as diversity in Western societies. The Safety Net Project is an initiative of our social department. Find more about this project and other actions of the Stichting Lingua Franca Foundation on our website : http://linguafrancafoundation.org The Stichting Lingua Franca Foundation is based in the Netherlands but works worldwide with a network of partners and volunteers.
Stichting Lingua Franca Foundation Dassenkuillaan, 76 6162 JG GELEEN 0031 (0) 631003706 Th e N eth erlan d s linguafrancafoundation@gmail.com KvK : 14122686 ABN-AMRO : 533535115
One Project—Five Dimensions
Prevention The prevention mainly consists
Coaching, training and networking
of a permanent
information campaign in the countries of origin. This
This project aims to deal with domestic violence against women from abroad and to help them to integrate in the welcoming country or to go back safely to their country of origin.
will be done through on-line line information and advice on
One of the major issues for people coming from
a specialized website addressing the women in their
abroad, especially women, is the feeling of
own language. A collaboration with local authorities,
isolation in an unknown country. People tend to
embassies and NGO’s will relay this information to the
stay at home, with no contact with the locals
people considering moving abroad.
and
From our first experiences in this field, we identified five fields of intervention to cope with the multidimensional problems posed by the situations these women faced.
the
institutions
of
the
welcoming
country. They don’t learn the language to get enough autonomy and then, they cannot apply for a job. We’ll propose clubbing and socializing activities in order to prevent this isolation feeling and coaching and training for languages, job search and social integration.
Information and training of the welcoming institutions
Partnership Such an ambitious program can be achieved
only
through
a
broad
partnership involving local authorities, embassies, NGO’s,
governments social
workers
abroad, and
organizations.
We are also working
with
offices
lawyers
professionals.
and
health
Aid and Empowerment
The world is growing more complex everyday and civil servants and social workers have to cope with globalization’s side effects. One of
If things are going wrong we provide help and
them is to deal with people coming from abroad and sometimes
advice : we are searching for a shelter, housing,
trapped in very complicated situations. Furthermore, these people
work, we provide training and psychological
are coming from very different social, cultural, ethnic and religious
support, legal advice and/or medical aid. All this
backgrounds. We aim to provide these professionals tools deriving
will be provided on a voluntary basis and on
from ethnology, ethno-psychiatry psychiatry and cultural mediation in order to
demand.
analyze and deal with these multicultural patterns.