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CHRISTMAS EVE WITH THE BARKA FOUNDATION
The
Barka Foundation Has been organising open Christmas Eve Suppers for over
12 years. They always take place in the middle of the Old Market Square
in Poznań in BWA Gallery and Kongresowa Restaurant. In the same time
when all the Polish families meet at the traditional Supper Table, 400
people including the homeless, the lonely and the poor gather to
celebrate Christmas Eve. On the beautifully set tables there are 12
traditional Polish dishes prepared by volunteers from donation products.
The tables are standing outsider. Inside of the gallery there is a
Christmas crib with Baby Jesus ST Mary, ST Joseph and live animals.
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21.12.2006 New EuroMI webpage!!! We would like you to invite you to visit our brand new EuroMI webpage. Please go to www.euromi.info and tell us what you think about it |
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21.12.2006 Around
2000 people have received the first edition
of our "EuroMI Nesletter"!!We hope that the number of
our readers and friends will grow continously. |
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21.12.2006
A EuroMI representative live in a popular Polish TV show! |
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21.12.2006 we
present a EAPN
National Report on Strategies for Social
Protection and Social Inclusion for the years
2006-2008 |
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18.12.2006
An important letter from Dublin-we hope
there will be more such offers. We count on you! |
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15.12.2006
Franco Frattini's response to uor
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14.12.2006
Preparations for Christmas Eve have begun.
This year the Traditional Christmas Supper is going to be
organised by young staff members of the Barka Foundation.
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13.12.2006.
To all EuroMI friends and supporters!
We present 2 short reports ( By Tim Nicholls and Ewa
Sadowaska) from the
Closing Conference
and Ceremony of the European Union's Year of Worker |
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11.12.2006
An important information for those
willing to take part in the European Network for Migrants
Integration! - representatives of the
developing EuroMI network - Ewa Sadowska and Tim Nicholls will
take active part in a conference on the European Year of Workers
Mobility organised today (11.12.2006) by the European Commission. |
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07.12.2006
We continue our educational campaign on
the local level! |
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07.12.2006
Videoconference in London and Warsaw on
the new wave of Polish work migrants in the UK |
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06.12.2006
Regional Workshop on Social Enterprises
in Central-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent
States is going to take place in Brussels on the
11-12 of December 2006. |
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04.12.2006
EU suggests Job Centres for Africa. |
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04.12.2006
2 important films on good practices in
poverty eradication! |
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04.12.2006
A report from the conference on the
free movement of workers within the EU organised by ECAS in the
European Parliament. PBME representatives - Ewa
Sadowska and Philip Burke took active part in the conference.
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28.11.2006
50 victims of dishonest employers end
fake job agencies on the streets of Copenhagen |
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27.11.2006
A story of a missing Polish migrant, we
presented a few days ago, has reached a happy end!
Janus G was identified by his family members whilst being
interviewed on Wiadomosci ( the main Polish news channel). His
back was turned to the camera and he was saying that he loves
his wife and children and wants tocomeback home but has no money
to buy a return ticket. His family contacted us a week ago and
we showed the pogramme to Tim Nicholls who was then visiting us
from the Simon Community in London. He was able to recognise the
place where the interview took place. It was at a day centre for
the homeless based in the London borough of Hammersmith. We
contacted the family providing contact details to a Polish
speaking social worker of the organis. On Friday Wiadomości
broadcast an information that Janusz G. had reached his home
safely. Janusz G has been the 7 th person that Barka
ant its partners have helped return to Poland. |
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27.11.2006
PBME in The British Council |
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27.11.2006
A Barka representativehas been invited
to make a speech during a United Nations conference.
A seminar entitled "Strenhtening social Inclusion Process -
Searching for a Compromise in Order to Reach Lisbon Strategy and
Millennium Development Goals" will take place in Warsaw on the
29-30th of November 2006. European Commission representatives as
well as government representatives together with local
authorities and NGOs dealing with social exclusion and social
integration will take part in the conference. |
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24.11.2006
The
Barka Foundation project
has
been selected as a finalist for the prize of "Most Innovative
Development Project"
which is part of the 2006 Global Development Awards and Medals
Competition
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21.11.2006
PBME
representatives - Ewa Sadowska and Philip Burke will take part
in a conference on free movement of workers within the EU
organised by European Action Services (ECAS). The seminar will
take place in the European Parliament in Brussels on the 22nd of
October 2006. |
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21.11.2006Features
– Poles apart. A report on Polish migrants
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20.11.2006
The Barka Foundation have received an
invitation to take active part in the Closing Conference of the
European Year of Workers Mobility organised by the
European Commission |
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20.11.2006
PBME has begun it's educational
campaign on the local level. |
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20.11.2006
European Commission
Report on the Functioning of the
Transitional Arrangements set out in the 2003 Accession Treaty
(period 1 May 2004–30 April 2006) |
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16.11.2006
This land of opportunity must not close
doors to migrant labour - an article by Stephen King
from "The Independent" |
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16.11.2006
Immigration is opening up all those issues
that the Government would rather forget - an article
by Steve Richards from "The Independent" |
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16.11.2006
SNP targets Polish voters.
About 50,000 immigrants have arrived in Scotland since Poland
entered the European Union (EU), all of whom are now entitled to
vote in next year’s Holyrood poll. The Scottish National Party
is targeting the immigrant Polish community to boost its
performance at next year’s Scottish election. |
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14.11.2006 The closest family of a Polish work migrant missing in London has contacted us today. Janus G was identified by his family members whilst being interviewed on Wiadomosci ( the main Polish news channel). His back was turned to the camera and he was saying that he loves his wife and children and wants tocomeback home but has no money to buy a return ticket. We have shown the programme to Tim Nicholls visiting us from the Simon Community in London. He was able to recognise the place where the interview took place. It was at a day centre for the homeless based in the London borough of Hammersmith. We contacted the family providing contact details to a Polish speaking social worker of the organisation. We hope for a reestablishement of contact. |
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14.11.2006.
Correspondence with an NGO from Belgium
offering their cooperation on the migrants issues.
Dear Denis, |
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14.11.2006
The European Commission has invited the
Barka Foundation to participate actively in a conference
sumarising the Year of European Workers' Mobility The
conference will take place in Lille (France) on the 11-12of
December 2006 " Barka representative will take part in the
official opening of the conference. They will present the
Foundation's project on work migrants. Furthermore they will
conduct workshops on activization and rentegration
of the migrants returning to their home country".
- said a European Commisssion representative |
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14.11.2006
Correspondence with a Belgian NGO -
Pour la Solidarite
Dear Ewa Sadowska , Dear Denis, |
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14.11.2006
Tim Nicholls, the director of the Simon
Community, has come for his second visit to Poland.
Tim Nicholls is going to stay for a week with the Barka
Foundation trying to think of possibilities of providing support
to the migrants. |
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14.11.2006
The Polish President L.Kaczynski on
Polish work migrants Great Britain - "It's a lie".
Maciej Łopiński Polish vice secretary of state said that the
"Daily Mail" article on the president’s visit is false. The
Wednesday Daily Mail quotes Lech Kaczyński’s words from a press
conference after the meeting with Tony Blair. |
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10.11.2006
FEANSTA Flash October 2006 (European Federation of National
Organizations working with the Homeless) |
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10.11.2006 The
Barka Foundation together with its partners (Simon Community,
Housing Justice Unleash, Natioanl Alliance of
Organizations for Social Integration) Have written a letter to
Franco Frattini - Vice-President and EU Commssioner,
Chairman of the Commissioners' Group on Migrants Issues.
The Group concentrates
on creating a safety-net social system embracing non EU
nationals mainly. The letter is a plea for the Group to consider
the problem of he internal migration within the EU and to
include the A8 nationals in the support system. |
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10.11.2006
A letter from Holand |
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10.11.2006
1,500 migrants arrive in UK daily.Some
1,500 migrants arrived to live in the UK every day in 2005,
according to official estimates. |
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09.11.2006
MEP Jean Lambert
mentions Barka and the Simon Community in her newsletter under
the heading Human Rights. |
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08.11.2006
Letter from Pour la Solidarite Best regards , |
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03.11.2006
The Right to Health is a Human Right:
Ensuring Access to Health for People who are Homeless.
FEANTSA Annual European Report 2006 has been published |
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03.11.2006 A Polish
department of the biggest trade union,GMB, has been created! |
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31.10.2006 Cooperation offer form France! French Embassy in Warsaw as well as Paris local authorities have invited Barka Foundation to come to France. Polish work migrants are flooding Pris and they begin to face similar problems as their compatriots in Greate Britain. A group of 5 experts will come to Paris with a study visit to identify the migrants problems and needs. The visit will also aim at creating local and international partnerships to solve the problems. |
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31.10.2006
Commisioners Group on Migration Issues
chaired by Vice President Franco Frattini has been set up |
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31.10.2006
A police office worker from Thames Valley wrote
to us asking for assistance in dealing with Polish work migrants.
We present his letter and Małgorzata Malak response. |
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30.10.2006
The
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
has submitted an application for funding for a common project of
the Hammersmith and Fulham Borough and two agencies identified
as:
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26.10.2006
We would like to encourage our partners
to apply for subventions. We present you 2 different
founds thet are still available. |
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26.10.2006
Philip Burke from the Simon Community
and Małgorzata Malak from PBME on behalf of T.Sadowski from the
BArka Foundation have written 2 separate letters to the EU
Commisioner for Justice and Home Affairs - Franco Frattini |
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26.10.2006
Fast track to UK for Polish builders
The
construction industry's training body is setting up an office in
Poland to fast-track migrant workers into Britain. The office
will be open this month to hone the skills of Polish builders
and familiarize them with health and safety issues. |
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26.10.2006
Bosses and unions court the Poles
The TUC's concern that one in five migrant workers is being
exploited by unscrupulous bosses led it to set up a stall at a
job fair in the Polish capital this week to give advice about UK
employment law and working in Britain |
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24.10.2006. Polish
migrants in France face similar problems as those in Great
Britain- correspondence from France |
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24.10.2006
An application form for subventions for
the EuroMI project has been sent to the European Commission! |
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24.10.2006
Thousands of Italians went on a
demonstration against slavery work and in solidarity with abused
migrant workers. |
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24.10.2006 British Unions recruit Polish workers during Warsaw Work Fair. TUC have come to Poland to encourage Polish migrant workers to join British trade unions while working in Great Britain. The TUC arrival to Poland is a result of constantly growing numbers of Polish migrants arriving to the UK without adequate knowledge and preparation. They don't know English nor have any friends in the UK and therefore are very vulnerable to misuse and work gangs. The TUC have been concerned about the growing problem and therefore encourage Poles to join them. They assure that they treat all they members equally. " a term <migrant worker> does not exists to us, we perceive everyone as workers", said one of the TUC representatives. |
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24.10.2006
EuroMI representatives in Polish
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24.10.2006
PBME in the European Parliament -
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19.10.2006
Ken
Loach new film on Polish migrants |
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18.10.2006
BBC One on Polish work migrants and the
Barka Foundation |
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18.10.2006
Mohammad Janus, a social entrepreneur
from Bangladesh is the new Nobel Peace prizewinner. |
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13.10.2006
The second day of the FEANSTA
Conference has begun |
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11.10.2006 On the 12-14th of October an international conference organised by FEANSTA will take place in Wrocław. It is aimed at NGOs fighting homelesness, they will all come to Wrocław tommorow to exchange their experience in the matter. The Barka Foundation representatives will introduce the participantsof the conference to the newly created programme called EuroMI (European Network for Migrants Integration). |
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09.10.2006 The
European Commission has declared the year 2006 as The European
Year of Workers' Mobility |
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09.10.2006
PBME representatives meet with Anna
Kalata-the Polish Minister of Labour and Social Policy. |
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06.10.2006 A press conference has
been organised today, on Friday 06.10.2006. Tim
Nicholls from the Simon Community has reported on his visit in
Poland. |
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22.09.06 We have
received a letter from the Police
Station in Tooting, which describes a tragic
situation of a group of homeless Polish males camping on private
properties. Since they constitute a threat to other residents
the Tooting Poliece Station has asked the Barka Foundation for
assistance. |
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03.10.2006 Tim Nicholls from the
Simon Community visits Poland. Tim Nicholls came on
Monday to Poznań on the Barka Foundation invitation. He is the
chair person of the Simon Community, an NGO based in London
dealing with homelesness. On Tuesday and Wednesday Tim Nicholls
is due to meet with the Barka Foundation representatives and
local authorities. Several meetings are scheduled for him in
Warsaw for Thursday. He is going to meet with representatives of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Labour andSocial
Policy. Later the same day, he is going to meet with
the Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection. |
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