Information as a means to integration

They came to Switzerland as foreign labourers or refugees, and likely never thought they would spend their old age in the country. A new project aims to make ageing immigrants aware of services for seniors. Placecards bearing a mix of Swiss and foreign names are propped on tables in the Swiss Red Cross training centre outside the Swiss capital, Bern. It’s the first day of “Gemeinsam in die Zukunft” – “Together into the future” – a project initiated in 2014 by cities in canton Bern, including the capital of the same name, as well as Biel and Langenthal. The new students – ranging in age from 30 to 64 – return from their morning break, chattering in German. For most of them it’s a foreign language. As representatives of the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Albanian, Serbian, Croatian and Tamil communities in Switzerland, they’ve come to learn how to moderate roundtable discussions among their communities’ ageing members. The goal of the programme is to help …
Source: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ageing-foreigners_information-as-a-means-to-integration/41909718?ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss