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Bulgarian national meeting: a focus on the situation of children left behind

Bulgarian national meeting: a focus on the situation of children left behind

The first National Meeting of the Grundtvig project "Advanced Training Programme on Transantional Families Support” was held on the 23rd - 24th of January in Sofia, Bulgaria. The focus of the Bulgarian National event, organized by Partners Bulgaria Foundation, was to analyze the situation of the children of migrant parents in order to identify the educational needs of the stakeholders involved with transnational families. (more...)...

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15 Feb 2011

THE NETWORK

Get together to work in a coordinated way is a key action in order to get the phenomenon of the children left behind taken in consideration and obtain results in their favour, but also in favour of their families and communities. For this reason L'Albero della Vita decided to launch the idea of creating a network of stakeholders to work in this direction throughout Europe. Moreover, the information gathered in these first months confirmed how this phenomenon is spread throughout Europe and the ...

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10 Feb 2011

LEFT BEHIND: SEMINAR IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

“Left Behind - The impact of economic migration on children left behind and their families” which takes place on 2 March 2011 in the European Parliament in Brussels. The conference will address the issue of children left behind in the country of origin when parents move to another European country in search of employment. This phenomenon is still underestimated and often unknown even if it concerns approximately half million children in the EU. The event will gather experts from across Eu...

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01 Feb 2011

Awareness raising in Italy: seminar in Milan (May 2010) and Publication

Awareness raising in Italy: seminar in Milan (May 2010) and Publication

On 26 May 2010, in the offices of the European Commission representation in Milan and their support we organized our first awareness raising event. The seminar 'Left Behind: the transnational family and children left behind in Romania' aimed to present the condition of children left behind and their families, in the migration from Romania to Italy and saw the participation of several experts and actors directly involved in Italy and Romania. Particularly, during the morning session speakers des...

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01 Feb 2011

OUR VOICE IN EUROPE: LEFT BEHIND AS VULNERABLE CHILDREN – ROAD MAP TO RACCOMENTATION ON CHILD POVERTY

On 2-3 September 2010, 370 experts, representatives of the 27 EU Mmber States, NGOs, universities and other actors involved in child protection and well-being in Europe have gathered to provide inputs and discuss the drafted text of the Recommendation on Child Poverty that the European Commission is preparing. L'Albero della Vita participated to this Conference and raised the issue of Left Behind as a particular vulnerable group, which was accepted by the working group and included in...

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