Empowerment, Integration and Participation of Women (WEIP)

Language: English

Country: Spain, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom

“Empowerment, Integration and Participation of Women” (WEIP) aims to help migrant and refugee women of the European Union by offering them labour opportunities for integration. The project aims to provide migrant and refugee women, who have recently arrived at the European Union, with new tools and labour competences, and to improve their chances of integration in host countries by increasing their skills, employment opportunities and access to services.

The activities of the project aims to provide concrete initiatives such as language and training skills, employability activities, legal counselling, educational workshops and leisure activities for migrant and refugee women in the four European counties of the consortium (Spain, Italy, Poland and United Kingdom).  

Though this holistic program of complementary activities, the project has help to promote the integration of migrant and refugee women and has facilitated their access to work improving their skills and low-paid jobs situations.  

This project started on June 2017, and partners of the consortium are: Red Acoge (Coordinator), Coalición KARAT, Differenza Donna and LAWRS (Latin-American Service of Woman Rights).

vega.velasco@redacoge.org (Red Acoge)

www.karat.org/ (Coalición KARAT)

www.differenzadonna.org/ (Differenza Donna)

www.lawrs.org.uk/en/ (LARS)

Resorse type Webpage: redacoge.org/news/es/2017/06/21/0001/proyecto-de-empoderamiento-integracion-y-participacion-de-la-mujer-weip