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Abstract
Background
Introduction:
Kids, youngsters and adults with an immigrant background are more vulnerable in the new country of arrival. It is quite hard to learn a new language and the rules and regulation in the new country.
In several cultures, people with a visible or invisible disability can experience guilt and Shame because of their diagnoses. Due to the cultural background, most of the time the families are also feeling the same. This feeling could be conscious or unconscious due to the cultural background.
Therefor did the Swedish National Assyrian Organization (SNAO) take the initiative to start a knowledge-sharing project together with the Swedish Rheumatism Association and the Swedish Neuro-Association to inform and educate the kids and their parents with the Assyrian background.
Objectives
The aim of this project is to empower the persons and families suffering of an RMD or/and neurological disease among the immigrants from Syria and to break barriers within the immigran's society as well as saving on the national welfare system.
Results
To achieve such a project the SNAO applied for funds from the Swedish General Inheritance fund nad worked closely with the Swedish Rheumatism Association as well as the Swedish Neuro-Association.
The project included other stakeholders that could embrace the goal and use unconventional methods to mark the point and reach out to the target group.
Organizing weekend seminars open for to the target group
Working with Läsa för integration (Reading for integration) http://www.lasaforintegration.se/index.html
Opratat is a theater group that lifts difficult subjects to the surface and make a pedagogic scen of the subject. http://anhoriga.se/opratat/
The Swedish Disability Rights Federation: that enable the project to reach a broader target but also to reach the decision makers.
References
The project reach a great number of immigrant with an Assyrian background and could inform the attendees about their right and how the Swedish society works. This was of a great help to the families as well as the kids.
Disclosure of Interest
None declared