The VIM project aims to improve health among migrants by promoting a healthy lifestyle and a greater awareness of the health system of the host country, to allow everyone to benefit from it in a correct and complete way.
To this end, a cycle of three workshops with the guests of one Extraordinary Reception Centre in Palermo has been organized. Youth and adults from Senegal, Mali, Tunisia, Ivory Coast, Gambia and Guinea discussed health issues and how to deal with problems related to tackling a new health system that is different from one of their country of origin. The workshops were based on the methodology of non-formal education, using games as the main vehicles for learning and dialogue.
The first workshop was dedicated to introducing the Italian health system, starting from the system related to the use of first aid service in hospital, when it is appropriate to use it and what is the meaning of the emergency codes (red, yellow, green and white). Part of the meeting was also dedicated to discussing healthy and correct nutrition, linked to the new context and country in which those people find themselves living.
During the second workshop, the participants were asked to express themselves about the differences between the health system in Italy and in their countries of origin. To facilitate the activity, they were asked to draw how they see a hospital or the figure of the doctor in their country of origin and try to find differences and similarities with the structures and figures they know in Italy.
The last workshop served to deepen the understanding of the roles of the general doctor and medical specialists: to consolidate the learning of these roles, CESIE used a team game in which it was necessary to associate the names of doctors to the corresponding image in the shortest possible time.
The workshops organised within the VIM project serve the wider objective of strengthening migrants’ skills in health-related areas as a prerequisite for successful integration into the learning systems of the host country.
About the project
Vitality Interventions for Migrants – VIM is a project co-funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus + program, Strategic Partnerships for Adult Education.
Partners
The consortium consists of the following European partners:
- BUPNET BILDUNG UND PROJEKT NETZWERK GMBH (Germany, Coordinator);
- DIE BERATER (Austria);
- SOSU AARHUS (Denmark);
- Magenta Consultoria Projects S.L.U (Spain);
- CESIE (Italy).
For further information
Read more about VIM.
Visit vitalityintervention.eu
Contact Giovanni Barbieri, giovanni.barbieri@cesie.org.
