IFALL

IFALL, a volunteer based organization, was founded in 2013 in south of Sweden, Örkelljunga. The main objective is to promote integration between cultures and counteract violence between cultures in Sweden and in another countries. The organization fulfills the main objective through - Enabling individuals to help themselves so they have a better understanding of her/his own culture and their self-esteem amplifies. - Providing multi-cultural meeting places where the exchange of experiences, values and cultures promote individual’s life quality - Building social network between different cultures - encouraging the individual to take responsibility in society - Developing and practicing effective and creative approaches/methods for integration, both formal and non-formal. - Spreading information in order to increase awareness of the meaning of culture and different cultures. IFALL works with integration in different levels. a)Ground Level: several activity groups such as language cafe, homework support, sport days, international evenings. These activities are weekly or monthly and our volunteers are planning and organizing. Target group often is immigrant background people or refugees. b)Intellectual Level: adult education and youth projects in local and international levels (i.e. Erasmus + and Nordplus). In this level youth and adults volunteers became more experienced with projects especially about sharing best practices between project partners. This is a kind of platform for our volunteers that they can prepare activities for ground level. c)Informative Level: seminars, conferences, panels and handbooks for local people, social worker, teacher, volunteers who can follow new information about integration and cultures. Nonformal education and methods are applied for these levels of activity.