Creative Tool Kit and Activity Box

• Hundreds of accompanied and unaccompanied refugee children and youth living in collective shelters for asylum seekers in Switzerland;
• 51 people (Directors, co-directors and Shelter Staff) in 4 federal and cantonal collective shelters.

In 2018, during Phase I, Save the Children Switzerland, with Alta Mane’s support, developed the “Creative Tool Kit and Activity Box” and more specifically selected the Best Practices of creative and pedagogic activities, arts-based, which had previously been tested in the framework of the pilot project Child-and-Youth Friendly Spaces led in the Federal Reception Center in Bern. At the same time, a catalogue of activities on the use of the Creative Tool Kit and Activity Box was developed and a mobile prototype of the Box was assembled for training and replication purposes. In 2019, during Phase II, the organization disseminated the Creative Tool Kit and Activity Box in 2 Federal Asylum Shelters and 2 Cantonal Asylum Shelters in the German and French speaking parts of Switzerland, and trained 18 shelter directors and co-directors of 12 Federal Asylum Shelters run by ORS as well as 33 Shelter Staff of 16 Swiss Federal and Cantonal Shelters run by AOZ and ORS, and 2 Asylum Shelters run by ORS in Germany. In parallel, it conducted several advocacy activities on federal level with SEM (State Secretariat for Migration) and on the cantonal level with SODK (Conference of Cantonal Social Services Directors). Additionally, as member of the Child Rights Network Switzerland, she participated in the development of the LOIPR (List of Issues Prior to Reporting) to guarantee the respect of the rights and needs of the minors on the move located in Switzerland.

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