Fundación Punjab

Description

This
collaboration between both institutions becomes a reality with the
incorporation of an intercultural mediator to the AMICS team, trained
in the « Intercultures » Working Group.

Her participation will
allow developing this project, increasing the actions designed for
gypsy families and introducing the cultural perspective between all the
collectives in order to encourage the coexistence.

The ARPUJAR
project goes by the need to develop actions of cultural mediation by
introducing the cultural perspective of gypsy ethnic groups and thus by
promoting the sociocultural integration of this collective.

For
two decades, Spain has continued to receive a foreign population of and
those last five years, Spain has become the EU country whose immigrant
population is the most important.

Discrimination is a phenomenon
frequently undergone by immigrants and gypsies, who are viewed from the
perspective of stereotypes and who are negatively prejudiced against.

With
an intercultural perspective, we understand that the factors of
exclusion not only exist between people but also within a same
environment and from the treatment that is reserved to it.

The
purpose of this project is to establish the necessary synergies to
realize actions which could create a more « human » environment, which
could encourage different forms of communication between different
social actors who guarantee to respect differences and to acknowledge
similarities.

This project tries to contribute to the
construction of a society in which cultural diversity does not involve
social unrest but new forms of social relation in order to handle
and/or resolve conflicts and take the wealth that the pluricultural
aspects present.

Working on behalf of this coexistence supposes
working on behalf of social cohesion and integration of all the
individuals and groups on an equal footing.

Objectives

General objectives

·    To encourage actions of cultural mediation designed to the gypsy collective as part of projects developed by AMICS.
·    To promote and coordinate the objectives of FP and AMICS in the field of intercultural mediation.
·    To actively participate in the execution of different projects developed by AMICS.

Specific objectives

·   
To act like a union link between the social resources and the services
to avoid situations of discrimination and inequality.
·    To make the communication between professionals of different services and people belonging to social minorities easier.
·    To encourage social cohesion between the beneficiaries of the project.
·    To promote social integration of cultural minorities.
·    To encourage intercultural coexistence in the city of Castellón.

Development of the project

Coordination

In this phase, we will plan and shape the practical application of the project.
·    Recruitment of the staff.
·    To find the forming and the forward planning of the work group.
·    Shaping and coordination of the objectives.

Disclosure of the project in different areas

·    Social services and services for the community.
·   
Local and autonomous administrations: autonomous Ministry of
Well-Being, Ministry of Education, town councillors and resources.
·    Neighbours’ associations, especially in peripheral districts.
·    Gypsy families benefiting from the Punjab Foundation’s projects.

Catching beneficiary families through different means:

·    Meeting with beneficiary families.
·    Mediation and diagnosis of the cases.
·    Visits at home in the most necessary cases.
·    Mediation, information and monitoring.

Intercultural mediation with families

·    Mediation between families and institutions
·    Mediation between families and groups in conflict.
·    Accompaniment of families.
·    Assistance and Orientation.
·    Resolution of conflicts within the neighbours’ community.

Monitoring the cases:

1.    Register of mediation files.

2.    Monitoring the interventions.

·    Training and Information/Orientation.
·    Designed for technicians of different Social Services Centres.
·    Designed for technicians from the Educational environment.
·    Designed for technicians of the Health Centre and other sanitary services.
·    Designed for the population in general through Neighbours’, immigrants’ and ethnic minorities’ Associations.

3.    Consciousness raising.

·    In the educational centres (pupils, AMPAS, teaching and non-teaching profession).
Working groups.
Discussions.
Day with themes.
·    Designed for the population in general. (Associations)
·    Designed for social agents (professional of any field, according to the request).