HOLISTIC UWEZO GIRLS EMPOWERMENT IN KIBERA, KENYA Recently, Kenya experienced very high rates of school drop-outs amongs girls due to teenage pregnancies and early marriages. All this has been associated with high poverty levels and lack of proper life skills that would especially enable girls to make informed choices when engaging in harmful activities.   To address [...]

  ECCE GELAN: PROVIDING EARLY CHILDCARE AND EDUCATION TO CHILDREN IN AKAKI KALITY, ADDIS ABABA   Kopin, together with our long-term Ethiopian partner organisation Emmanuel Development Association (EDA), has just launched the project “ECCE Gelan”.   The overall aim of the project is to improve access to and the quality of early childhood education and [...]

BRIDGE –Building Relationships through Innovative Development of Gender Based Violence Awareness in Europe    The existing studies point to alarming accounts of gender based violence (GVB) affecting refugee and migrant children and youth in the European Union. Trafficking, sexual exploitation and abuse, and forced labour, are all part of the experiences of people on the move. At [...]

REST THB: Research, Support and Tools for the Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings in Malta, with a particular Focus on Refugees   “REST THB: Research, Support and Tools for the Fight against Trafficking in Human Beings in Malta, with a particular Focus on Refugees” has the overall objective to contribute to the prevention of [...]

JITAMBUE – It’s all about me Amani Kibera (Kenya) General overview The project, which is funded by the Maltese Government through its Official Development Aid budget administered by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade Promotion, seeks to target students who have exhibited behaviours that put them at risk of dropping out of primary or [...]

Online gaming and Digital tools to promote asylum seekers Integration and increase awareneSS among schools of the refugee crisis in Europe – ODISSEU Duration: 01/09/2018 – 31/08/2021 Partners: Oxfam Italia Onlus (Italy), CARDET (Cyprus), Kopin (Malta), Meath Partnership (Ireland), University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany), University of Pitesti (Romania). As European societies become more multi-cultural, the need [...]

InterCap - Developing Capacities together: European CSO-university networks for global learning on migration, security and sustainable development in an interdependent world Duration: 01/11/2017 - 31/10/2020 Overall objective: To enhance critical understanding of migration and sustainable development, in the context of SDGs, amongst those in teacher education, in order to increase comprehension of the relationship between the interdependent world, [...]

Snapshot from the Borders - Small towns facing the global challenges of Agenda 2030 Duration: 22/10/2017 - 21/10/2020 We have a specific aim: Strengthen a new horizontal, active network among cities directly facing migration flows at EU borders, as a way of promoting more effective policy coherence at all levels (European, [...]

Professional Action and Practice for Youth refugees and Asylum Seekers PAPYRUS 2016-2-UK01-KA205024970 KA2 – Strategic Partnership for Youth Duration: 24 months (1st January 2017 – 31st December 2018) Partners: Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), TUAS – Turku University of Applied Sciences Ltd. (Finland), CESIE (Italy), WEBIN – Westren Balkans Institute (Serbia), Kopin (Malta) The attention of [...]

Strengthen Community-based Care to minimize health inequalities and improve the integration of vulnerable migrants and refugees into local communities   Duration: 01/05/2017 - 30/04/2020 (36 months) The project will: o   Describe the current health profile of vulnerable migrants and asylum seekers as well as the needs, expectations and capacities of health service providers; o [...]