Current Programmes

• As part of the London Hub for refugee teachers/ Employability forum, Reconnect is engaged in a job brokerage project that aims to support refugee teachers to enter further education with the support of mentors and relevant specialists from further education, including refugee teachers currently teaching, and in collaboration with the London Hub and other partners.

• Reconnect continues to provide one-to-one assessment, advice and support to individual refugees seeking employment in general, and in the post secondary teaching sector and the media in particular.

• Reconnect has recently received a Global Community Links Action Grant from the British Council funded by DFID to “Building Understanding for Development through partnership between Reconnect (UK), a refugee based organisation and Good Samaritan Association (GSA) a local NGO in Ethiopia”. The activity links in to wider targeted development through focused interventions, and that refugee teachers in both the UK and developing countries will learn and benefit’.

• Reconnect is currently developing a pilot project to employ the skills and the experiences of UK based job-ready unemployed/ underemployed refugee teachers in developing countries. As part this initiative an advisory group has been set up, comprising of refugee teachers, representatives of universities engaged in training refugee teachers, and representatives of other organisations engaged in transfer of skills. A series of consultation is currently underway with various stake holders.