Thursday, November 11, 2004

Asylum Seekers: Mentor scheme to integrate refugees / Peterborough Today, 10 Nov 2004

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=845&ArticleID=885359
"A unique £93,000 lottery-funded scheme, which will see members of the public becoming mentors to refugees and asylum seekers, is due to be launched in Peterborough.
Organisers hope the Time Together project will dispel the image of immigrants as 'scroungers' and 'benefit fraudsters', and help them integrate into the community.

It will be run from the Government-funded New Link centre, in Lincoln Road, Millfield, Peterborough.

The initiative is being run by national volunteering charity TimeBank, which is now looking for volunteer mentors from the city area.

Mentors will be asked to spend about five hours a month with their mentee, helping them with tasks such as writing a CV or practising their English, explaining how the internet or job market works, or taking them to a museum, gallery or football match."