• by organising high quality training courses in partnership with the UK's leading educational training institutions, such as Birkbeck, Institute of Education (University of London), and Thames Valley University

 

• by providing one-to-one assessment, advice and support to individual refugees seeking employment in general, and in the post-compulsory teaching sector and the media in particular

• by providing both work placement and monitoring to individual refugees, as part of their training

• by supporting self-help groups where refugee members share knowledge and experience of the UK's professional employment market

To focus attention on the vital role that refugees can play in development

• by organising Refugee Development Groups that develop refugee-led projects. Here refugees from shared professional backgrounds design small, highly specific projects that

  •  develop their skills / career

  •  target clearly identifiable needs in developing countries

 

 

To promote awareness about the underlying causes of displacement and to transform the negative impact of displacement into a positive experience

 

• by actively involving refugees in development and through them, engaging with employers, policy makers, the media and the wider public

Reconnect is a member of the Development Education Association (DEA)