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Unity for Tertiary Refugee Students (UTRS)
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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social
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Refugees
Geographic scope:
National
Country of activity:
South Africa
Mission statement:
- lobbying on behalf of refugee and asylum seeker students at tertiary education and those seeking to access tertiary education; - building the capacity of refugees and asylum seekers and providing them with opportunities for empowerment so that they can participate actively in their host society; - identifying or creating funding opportunities from which the most needy and deserving refugee and asylum seeker tertiary students and prospective students could benefit; - raising awareness and educating the host communities about who refugees are, how people become refugees. The current focus of UTRS work are the student communities and the local communities where the refugees and asylum seeker students live; - promoting integration and social cohesion within the student communities at tertiary institutions and within local communities generally; - building ties with other civil society actors, NGOs but also tertiary institutions, foundations and the general public with a view to informing about the situation of refugees and asylum seekers at tertiary education. It should be noted that Unity for Tertiary Refugee Students (UTRS) is unique because it is irst NGO entirely led and managedby refugees and asylum seekers. Its leadership includes both tertiary students and young professionals, former tertiary students in their countries of asylum. The UTRS is a member of the Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the INEE Adolescents and Youth Task Team and the network Scholars at Risk (SAR). It is also a partner of the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada and is liaising with many civil society organizations, NGOs, refugee and human rights activists and scholars in many countries in Africa, several EU countries, Switzerland, the USA and Australia.
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