Upskill 160 Migrants for Certificates and Jobs

Gratitude to the Donors
Sincere appreciation and gratitude to our donors. Your donations have greatly influenced our ability to deliver our project activities to make a difference in the lives of our service users. Your donations continue to help us to pay the teachers and support volunteers. Also, the donations enable us to provide transport support to some of the beneficiaries when necessary. We are very grateful to you for the help and opportunity to up-skill and integrate our refugees/asylum seekers.

Comments from Beneficiaries
Gamar from Sudan said: I am happy because this project enables me to learn new things and meet new people from different countries. Barfin from Syria said: the music class is very good for me because I am learning something I like and meeting different people from different backgrounds and religions, it is a great experience. Fithawit from Eritrea said: a friend introduced me to this project of SD (Sustainability Development), I decided to come, now I am learning and speaking English better and not shy anymore to talk to people, I am very happy. Reza from Iran said: I find this project activities very useful especially the music aspect and meeting new people to share stories, gain confidence make friends. Dawit from Afghanistan said: The music and literacy/numeracy that I learn here have changed my life and I am very happy, I will tell all my friends about my experience. Roland from Cameroon said: as an LGBT person life has not been easy for me but this project treats everybody well and I have not only learn new skills I have made a lot of friends too which is exciting. We are able to obtain these interesting remarks from the service users because of your generous donations and we are thankful to you.

Skills Development, Evaluation & Referrals
With the universal language of music we are able to unite the refugees/asylum seekers who are from different countries and backgrounds, motivate and provide them lifelong skills. Our monitoring and evaluation reveals that the activities we deliver enable them to integrate faster and gain skills in: (i) Functional literacy/numeracy for communication; (ii) Music/cultural songs to encourage social integration and recreation. (iii) We also carry out individual needs analysis for career-path development in education, jobs/small-business. Where necessary we refer them to other suitable organisations for support. Our aims include making sure that our service users achieve skills nobody can take away from them, that they receive advocacy and tools to mentor new migrants and contribute positively to the community. We have included some additional project photos for your attention. We would like to use this opportunity to express our gratefulness to all the donors for their continued kindness which has helped us to progress and create useful impact on people in need for better chances in life.