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| The Connecting People project helps young refugees integrate into Austrian society through a mentoring programme by local citizens. The project provides help and support to refugees while helping to build long-lasting relationships with the wider community. |
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| The Youth Challenge project is a series of camps that give children with disabilities and those from low-income families the chance to have a holiday. The camps are situated across Belgium and teach the importance of tolerance, unity and non-violence to over 2,000 children in a safe and caring setting. |
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| The Study Café project helps to increase the number of Denmark’s young people who go on to further education. The project is run in four major cities and offers basic education to those from disadvantaged communities with the aim to improve the quality of life for many of the country’s young people. |
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| Emergency shelters across Finland provide a sanctuary for young people who are experiencing difficulties in their family lives. The shelters are situated in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Tapere and Turku and aim to increase confidence and help young people cope with the challenging circumstances they face. |
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| Holidays for vulnerable children provides a way for disadvantaged children to come together in a non-threatening and safe environment. The project helps young people work on their communication skills and share their experiences and personal challenges through group activities to help boost their confidence. |
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| The Where in My Home? project helps young people deal with racial intolerance and the feelings of isolation and loneliness that result from it. Through counseling and education, the project brings together teenagers from different ethnic backgrounds to foster friendship, strength and understanding. |
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| The Casa di Teddy programme provides housing for parents whose children are receiving medical treatment in Italy, often for long periods of time. Families from Albania, Iraq and Lebanon are among the many who have been assisted through the program, which can welcome up to 1,300 children and their families every year. The programme is vital in helping children stay close to their parents at what can be a traumatic time. |
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| The Red Cross holiday project helps build confidence in young people with disabilities through group social activities. The project aims to make young people less vulnerable to social exclusion while giving them an outlet to share the issues they face. |
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| The Spanish Red Cross World AIDS Day campaign is an annual event that helps support young people living with HIV and AIDS. By helping to raise awareness on how HIV is transmitted, the preventative measures and treatments available the campaign helps to dispel the fear, ignorance and prejudice that young people living with the conditions face. |
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| The Responsible Person is a volunteer-run project based in the Swedish city of Malmo. It educates 10 to 19 year olds from across southern Sweden on human rights law and how to recognise when they are being infringed. The project also teaches the importance of respecting others to help increase social harmony between communities. |
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| The Youth Fund project uses social activities to teach vulnerable young people the importance of respecting others and good moral values. The programme currently works with over 300 young people throughout Switzerland and aims to instill a sense of responsibility as young citizens. |
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| Positive Images is an educational programme that challenges the stereotypes that many young people have about asylum seekers and refugees living in the UK. By helping to change negative perceptions, the programme encourages young people to take a more humanitarian outlook of the world around them, while working towards a more inclusive and harmonious community.
Discover more about our partnership with the Red Cross on the Red Cross website
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