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Often the only thing refugees
are able to carry with them is their experience and any specific
skills they may have been trained in. Reconnect seeks to nurture
these skills through organising training and work experience,
to enable refugees to regain their confidence, and to overcome
some of the barriers to their employment in the UK as well
as in developing countries. |
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Creating Opportunities for helping
developing countries |
| Reconnect
creates opportunities for professional refugees to contribute
to the long-term help that people in developing countries desperately
need. |
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Many skilled refugees have experienced
first-hand the conditions and problems the communities in
developing countries have to face. Consequently these
are often the very people best-placed to provide the skills
developing countries need. Ironically, these are the same
skills that developing countries have invested their
scarce resources in, and, as a result of displacement, are
now robbed of the opportunity to utilise these skills to help
themselves (often referred to as 'brain-drain'). Reconnect
seeks to create opportunities for refugees to provide developing
countries with these much needed skills. |
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Promoting awareness about the
underlying causes of displacement |
| Reconnect
draws attention to the causes and consequences of people being
displaced from developing countries |
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Reconnect provides a forum for
refugees to enable them to share their knowledge and experiences
with the wider public, promoting awareness about the issues
of displacement and development and seeks to transform the
negative impact of displacement into a positive experience. |
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