RESPECT Volunteers Provide Lessons At 24-Hour Exile Event

by Elana DuGuay

On Saturday, May 12, 2007, Ashley, Hope and I had the opportunity to work with Marc Schaeffer from RESPECT International and Wanda from Welcome Place for our Tools for Creative Change class at the University of Winnipeg.

We were given a chance to work with the youths in Winnipeg that participated in this year's 24-Hour Exile event to help them write letters to refugee students from Budaburum Refugee Camp in Ghana. The youths were extremely intelligent and a pleasure to work with. 24-Hour Exile

Australian Refugee Worker Study Tour

by Sara Maher

It seems appropriate to give this article that title as that is what I have used on every e-mail ever sent out. And I have sent a lot.

When I applied to the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust for a travelling fellowship, I told them my project would be to look at organisations that provide education for African women refugees, and how they may utilise volunteers in their service.

My particular interest being in those who have had no previous education. And I guess that sounded interesting as I was one of the 100 Australia-wide recipients of a fellowship. Study Tour

RESPECT University — Higher Education In Sierra Leone

by Neha Bhat

RESPECT International, through its initiative the RESPECT University (RU), has been trying to assist in providing higher education in refugee and internally displaced persons (IDPs) communities. Mr. Alex Columbus, Country Coordinator for RESPECT Sierra Leone, spearheads one such endeavor of the RESPECT University.

Prior to the introduction of RESPECT University, the students in camps in Sierra Leone did not have any options beyond high school education. RESPECT University