Refugees in Malaysia Seminar

Do you know some children are not qualified to go to school?

 Do you know there is a group of people live in fear and keep on running all the time?

 Do you know some people receive very low wages despite working for more than 12 hours?

 Have you ever realized these groups of people living nearby to us?   

 ---The Refugees---

 Or you often not too sure of who are migrants or who are refugees?

Willing to know them more? Willing to offer your help? Wait NO MORE! Come and join our seminar by register yourself today.

Date:  18 June 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 8.30am-1.30pm

Venue:  Bayveiw Hotel, Penang Island

FREE registration! Limited seats! Please register as soon as possible. 

 Objectives:

1.    To raise the participants’ awareness and concern about refugees issue.

2.    To eliminate discrimination against refugees among the participants.

3.    To understand the role played by UNHCR and NGOs in Malaysia on refugees’ issues.

4.    To learn the basic rope to setting up services to refugees.

5.    To get volunteers to help out in refugee issue.

Programmes’ schedule:

No.	Time	Session	Description	Speaker	Duration of time
1.	0830-0900	Registration	Registration of participants		30 mins
2.	0900-0915	Ice creaking and expectation check	Get the participants to know each other       Knowing the participants expectation on the workshop	Hui Fei (SUARAM)	15 mins
3.	0915-1000	Understand Refugee and role of UNHCR	Who are refugees?       misunderstanding between migrant workers and refugees       where do they come from (Malaysia context)       Role of UNHCR	Speaker from UNHCR	45 mins
4.	1000-1030	Coffee break			30 mins
5.	1030-1115	Movie sharing	Screening of “Running”       Understand refugees’ situation in Malaysia	Hui Fei/Que Lin (SUARAM)	45 mins
6.	1115-1200	Role played by other refugee NGOs in Malaysia	Role of JUMP       Other NGOs in Penang       Any other available international organizations or donors	James (JUMP)	45 mins
7.	1200-1230	Lunch			30 mins
8.	1230-1315	Experience sharing	How to help refugees who encounter the below problem o   Registration o   Violence o   Employment o   Sexual abuse o   Detention o   Medical care o   Education o   Others	Joachim (POHD)	45 mins
9.	1315-1330	Wrap up	Summaries the program of whole morning

Please contact Lee Hui Fei via email: leehuifei@gmail.com or 016-4422423 or Ong Jing Cheng 012-7583779 for further information. Please register yourself before 10th July 2011. Thank you.