Dudley
Mentors are given full training prior to being matched and then spend about 5 hours a month with their mentee, helping them to feel more at home in the UK. This might mean helping to write a CV, visiting a museum or art gallery, practising English or explaining the peculiarities of British humour.
The types of thing we do together have ranged from discussing current affairs so my mentee can practise and improve his English, to having a bite to eat in a traditional Congolese restaurant’ a mentor on the Time Together scheme.
Time Together arrived in Dudley October 2006. It is delivered in partnership with the Centre for Equality and Diversity, an organisation that works to ensure that every individual working in the city of Dudley has an equal opportunity to learn, work and live free from the fear of racial discrimination, prejudice, racial harassment and violence.
Dudley has a diverse refugee community including refugees from Afghanistan, Kurdistan, Albania, Angola, Iran, Somalia, Eritrea, Iraq and Syria. Time Together celebrates the positive contribution that refugees make to the life of the community and helps them to feel more at home within it.
