About the Project

Project Beyond Borders was launched with the primary mission to facilitate the reintegration of refugees into the socioeconomic milieu of regular life. For this, the project planned to organize channels for refugees to understand the intricate details related to immigration and for willing volunteers to understand the sensitivity required when approaching the refugee context. 

As part of its multi-pronged approach, the project brought out a comprehensive handbook for the willing volunteers who needed a structured information channel explaining the crisis suffered by the refugees, and the system in place that is supposed to respond to their needs. The handbook focused on providing practical skill sets to the volunteers and organizations working with refugees, while debunking the stereotypes and social stigmas prevalent around the refugee community globally. In addition to this, the project worked with refugee groups, and brought out a podcast that presented the recorded interviews of those who are usually sidelined in mainstream aid initiatives. The podcast brought together the voices of the refugees targeted by this project, for the world to understand their challenges as treated with inhumanity. 

To ensure a sustainable impact, this initiative worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to organize training stimulations at schools, for students to experience within a controlled set-up the conditions of displacement, deprivation, and loss. Using role-playing exercises and guided discussions, students were provided with key insights about the lives of displaced groups. It is by outreaching to student groups that the project was also able to organize a donation drive to provide refugee families with clothes and essential supplies for their regular use. For the children of these families, the project will soon organize a therapeutic dance workshop that would focus on providing the participating children with psycho-social techniques to cathartically process their emotions within a safe environment. Furthermore, the project will be creating a network of corporates for these families, who would be willing to continuously support these families through refugee welfare schemes and initiatives in the near future.