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Refugees Welcome Ilmenau

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Short Description

With this project we want to welcome refugees in Thuringia and especially Ilmenau. Furthermore, our aim is to help refugees to integrate within the community and feel more comfortable here. In our opinion, this cooperation could be a good way to improve the intercultural communication between the citizens of Ilmenau and the refugees. We want to promote mutual understanding, getting to know each other and building new friendships.

Long Description

The network “Refugees Welcome Ilmenau” has been founded in the end of the year 2014 under the impression of current crises and conflicts and the arrival of the first refugees in the Ilm-Kreis county as part of the association ISWI e.V. The network consists of more than 300 active citizens of all age and professions, that aim to give the refugees a warm welcome, support them in their daily live and give them practical, independent humanitarian aid, if wanted and needed. All members of the network, including international students at Ilmenau University, as well as refugees themselves, work voluntarily.

About us

The refugee network “Refugees welcome – Refugees welcome in Ilmenau” is a voluntary grouping , which pursues the following objectives in the spirit of Article 1 of the Basic Constitutional Law of the Federal Republic of Germany. Our main aims are:

welcome refugees
provide support for all those fled and want to be supported,
support the refugees to get independent of external aid,
an active support for the integration of refugees into society and
raising awareness about the problems, that refugees face and the reasons for migration.

We act not dependently on any political party and aim for tolerance, solidarity, human rights and peace. At the same time, we want to contribute to the political discourse and raise awareness about racism, group-related human hostility and war as well as its consequences. Therefore, we work together with all political and social forces that share our goals and values. The participants in the network act according to purely humanitarian principles and do not pursue any financial interests for themselves. Donations in form of equipment or money are spent totally to direct or indirect assistance of refugees.

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Contact
Email: refugees@iswi.org