Volunteering and Civic Participation Sample Clauses

Volunteering and Civic Participation. This part of the project focuses on the promoting and the hindering factors for migrant organisations and on the foundations of the participation of migrants (especially Third Country Nationals) in volunteering activities and civic participation. Voluntary work enjoys a major importance in Germany. It is to underline that the German public authorities allot the voluntary work a significant role within the framework of welfare and social cohesion. Recently, this has also included migrant organisations, which in the past were charged of being segregatory. Migrants’ voluntary participation is beneficial for society in a double sense: On the one hand due to the social improvement caused by their commitment (e.g. in the emergency management, the childhood care or refugee work). On the other hand, it is beneficial for the volunteers themselves due to their inclusion in social groups, networks and the access to knowledge. Although the esteem for migrant volunteering is taken up in support programmes, (not only migrant) voluntary organisations are facing existential difficulties. In the scope of the DIVERSE research project eight interviews with local experts for migrant participation in voluntary work were carried out at Karlshochschule International University (Karlsruhe). They were flanked by the research of corresponding literature. The later on pre- sented results have been achieved. The complete research report of the project group at Karlshochschule International University will soon be available for free on the University´s website.
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