Refuge and Asylum

For over 14 years, our mission is to accompany refugees, to provide services and to advocate for their cause. We provide holistic (social and legal assistance, education, cultural and educational activities, financial support and accomodation, advocacy and lobbying, research, studies and surveys, training and seminars, awareness campaigns and information) through various types of projects that we develop (11 projects in 2013).

We assist all categories of refugees and migrants (people with a form of protection in Romania, relocated people, asylum seekers, people in detention, refugees marginalized, tolerated, migrants coming to work or study and others). We are present in all centers opened in country as well as in detention centers (8 centers in total).

JRS Romania has a night shelter in Bucharest named “Pedro Arrupe Center” and also a Multifunctional and Cultural Center named “MyPlace”.

Over 1.500 refugees have been assisted in areas such as association and economic exclusion, detention, integration and acceptance conditions. About 20 specialists work constantly in order to accomplish our mission, supported by many enthusiastic volunteers of all ages and in all fields.

Foundation Caucasus Environment (FCE) is founded in 1998 in Georgia. FCE is a nongovernmental, nonprofit public organization with professional staff on environment and education. The organization is oriented on sustainable development and social issues and its activities cover the Caucasus region. At the same time FCE is a member of several international networks, just like the National Platform of Eastern Partnership in Georgia https://eap-csf.ge and acts as a coordinator of Working Group 3 of this platform: https://eap-csf.ge/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=298&Itemid=1396&lang=en-GB.
Moreover FCE is a member of the big international network Women in Europe for common Future (WECF) WECF http://www.wecf.eu. Furthermore FCE coordinates the Global Education Week (GEW) of the network of North-South Centre (NSC) of Council of Europe https://www.coe.int/t/dg4/nscentre/GE/GEW-NETWORK_en.asp#TopOfPage.

The organization holds the GEW once a year in Georgia. The Global Education program in Georgia is updated every year according to the themes and comments which are developed at the GEW seminars. These seminars are organized by the NSC of the Council of Europe with participation of all national coordinators of GEW network. The organization’s target groups are schoolchildren and teachers, university students, lecturers, women groups, refugees and Itinerary Displaced Persons (IDPs) from the conflict areas of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The permanent staff of FCE is 7 person and about 50 volunteers (students, schoolchildren and teachers, women groups, farmers, fishermen scientists, etc). Donors of the granted projects are EU, USAID, Eurasia Foundation, different countries' embassies in Georgia, among others.

Some recent implemented projects are:

1. "Integrated Hotspots Management and Saving the Living Black Sea Ecosystem HOT BLACK SEA", financed by EU BSB ENI CBC, 2013-2016; (team leader)
2. "Identification, Management and Sustainable Usage of the Eutrophicated areas of the Black Sea Coastal Zone", financed by UNEP GEF SGP (the project coordinator) https://www.facebook.com/foundationcaucasusenvironment, 2014-2015
3.   "Strenghening the Women Action for Sustainable Energy Development in Gali and Zugdidi Regions of Conflict areas of Abkhazi"