Refugees are looking for shelter and a future. While this can cause great tension in a country, it also provides an opportunity for mutual benefit. What is Rotary’s role in this context? Join the discussion to learn what Rotarians can do to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes.

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Rotary’s Role in Migration and Integration
Andreas Wierse | 5. June 2019

2. Rotary’s Role in Migration and Integration
Andreas Wierse | 5. June 2019

3. SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION
Deutsche TBD
Français TBD
English Presentation Language

4. Breakout Session on
Migration and Integration
Wel-
come

5. Agenda
Relax: We are flexible ;-)
● Motivation & Background
● Panel Discussion
● Open Discussion/Workshop
= Audience Participation Time ;-)

6. Be Interactive
We will use sli.do
● to allow you to express your opinions in live polls
Please take out your smartphones,
open the web-browser
and go to sli.do/rmi

7. Be Interactive
To warm up, please let us know
from which continent you travelled to Hamburg:
- Africa
- America (North)
- America (South)
- Asia
- Australia
- Europe
Be Interactive
To warm up, please let us know
from which continent you travelled to Hamburg:
- Africa
- America (North)
- America (South)
- Asia
- Australia
- Europe

8. Be Interactive
We will use sli.do
● to collect questions
Please take out your smartphones,
open the web-browser
and go to sli.do/rmi

9. Breakout Session on
Migration and Integration
Why?

10. Why this Session?

11. • My Presidential year 2015/16
• Appointee for Refugees
in District 1830
• About 100 projects
organized by 55 Rotary Clubs
Why this Session?

12. What did we do?

13. In the beginning:
quick help while the
authorities started to
build up their structures.
- Clothes
- Funding for refugee camps
- Language courses
- Vaccination
- Meetups
- Cultural exchange
- IT (laptops, WIFI, etc.)
- …

14. After the first intensive
phase ended and most
issues were handled
by the authorities, we
discussed the priorities:
- Language training
- Support for education
and job search
- General integration
issues

15. • We started two working groups on
language and work, training and education
• We thought about a general working
group for societal activities
• Renamed from appointee for refuges to
appointee for integration in District 1830
New Focus in District 1830

16. • The general interest in integration issues
diminished in many of our clubs
• But: if we do not get this right
we and our kids will all suffer!
However

17. This is why we are here!

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What this session is not about:
● Migration Politics
● Building walls
● Decisions about whom to let in
● Terrorists
Before We Start

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What this session is about:
● Integration
● How can we help?
● Collecting Ideas
● Rotary and its role …
Before We Start

20. Rotary
Presidential Themes Throughout the Years

21. • Object of Rotary
• The Four-Way Test
• Avenues of Service
This is the Framework for our actions.
Including Migration and Integration!
Our Guiding Principles

22. • FIRST: The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for
service;
• SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professions; the
recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the
dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve
society;
• THIRD: The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s
personal, business, and community life;
• FOURTH: The advancement of international understanding, goodwill,
and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional
persons united in the ideal of service.
Object of Rotary

23. • Is it the TRUTH?
• Is it FAIR to all concerned?
• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER
FRIENDSHIPS?
• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The Four-Way Test

24. • Vocational Service calls on every Rotarian to work with
integrity and contribute their expertise to the problems and
needs of society.
• Community Service encourages every Rotarian to find ways to
improve the quality of life for people in their communities and
to serve the public interest.
• International Service exemplifies our global reach in
promoting peace and understanding. We support this service
avenue by sponsoring or volunteering on international
projects, seeking partners abroad, and more.
Avenues of Service

25. Our Goal for Today

26. Learning Targets
as described in the proposal
• Learning Target 1:
Learn about the activities of Rotary clubs in the
context of the integration of refugees
• Learning Target 2:
Establish a network of integration representatives
• Learning Target 3:
Develop a basic set of activities that Rotary Clubs can
perform to support integration

27. Learning Targets
as described in the proposal
But:
Integration cannot be successful without
taking the migration aspect into account

28. Welcome our Panel!

29. Use sli.do
• Who is Rotarian? Rotaract? Inner Wheel?
• Who is coming from an origin country?
• Who is coming from a destination country?
You can post questions to sli.do directly
Before we start …
Who is in the Audience?

30. • Colin J. Burns
Rotary Club of Como, Western Australia
• Christo Forster
Rotary Club of Freetown, Sierre Leone
• Barbara Wolf-Wicha
Rotary Club Salzburg-Land, Austria
The Panel
From Origin and Destination Countries

31. Please introduce yourself and talk either about
the activities of the Rotary clubs in your country
in the context of the integration of refugees or
about your expectations about it.
Panelist Presentations

32. • What are the biggest problems that you
experience?
• How could Rotary help in your opinion?
• Where do you see the need for international
exchange with and support from Rotarians?
Panelist Discussion

33. Open Discussion/
Workshop

34. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSOpen Discussion/Workshop
Audience Participation Time:
It’s your turn now!

35. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSYour Questions/Comments
Input from the Audience please!
• Learning Target 1:
Learn about the activities of Rotary clubs in the
context of the integration of refugees
• Learning Target 2:
Establish a network of integration representatives
• Learning Target 3:
Develop a basic set of activities that Rotary Clubs can
perform to support integration

36. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSOpen Discussion
Input from the Audience please!
• We use sli.do again!
• First: we ask a question
• Second: you enter words/terms in sli.do
• We display the word cloud
• and focus on the most used ones

37. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSOpen Discussion
Input from the Audience please!
What are the biggest problems
that you experience?

38. A PAGE FOR BIG BOLDBULLET ITEMSOpen Discussion
Input from the Audience please!
How could Rotary help ?

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Input from the Audience please!
Where do you see the need
for international co-operation
between Rotarians?

40. Please be Active
use sli.do
• Learning Target 1:
Learn about the activities of Rotary clubs in the
context of the integration of refugees
• Learning Target 2:
Establish a network of integration representatives
• Learning Target 3:
Develop a basic set of activities that Rotary Clubs can
perform to support integration

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42. This presentation and others from throughout
the convention are available through the
convention mobile app and on SlideShare at
www.SlideShare.net/Rotary_International.

43. THANK YOU!
rotary@wierse.de