FRISM 50+

Finding, reaching and involving senior migrants (in lifelong learning)

Grundtvig 2

Denmark.

Denmark is a small country in the far North. It is a Scandinavian country.
The space is  43.000 square meters,
and we are 5 point 3 mill inhabitants.
6  per cent of the inhabitants are from not western countries.

Grundtvig

We want to tell you that Grundtvig was a Dane.
He was a very religious man,
he was a vicar
and he was very concerned about the way poor people lived. He wanted to make it possible for them to be able to have influence on democracy. 
Therefore he got the idea, that adult education was very important.

Sønderborg Municipality.

Sønderborg is located in the very South of Denmark. Close to the German border.
We are seventysix thousand inhabitants.
nine per cent of the inhabitants are from not western countries.

Sønderborg Aftenskole.

Sønderborg night school, it is called. It is a small local adult education center. We give lessons and lectures.
The majority of the learners are women. Originally the school belongs to the organisation of housewiwes.
Two years ago we started to give lessons in physical exercises to migrant women.
Normally migrant women do not go to our school. It seems as if adult migrants do not go to nights schools.
We got money from the municipality, our own organisation for night schools and from the county.
Therefore it was free for the women to go to the lessons in physical exercises.
To get in contact with the migrant women we collaborated with the tenants adviser from a local non-profit housing association, SAB.
Seventyfive women took part in the lessons.

Last year we made two clases for migrant women in physical exercises.
Last year we got the money from “Hawaa”. Hawaa is an organisation for migrant women and Danish women.
The lessons in physical exercises were placed in the buildings of SAB.

Today we work on FRISM 50+
We work as volunteer. We are trying to find, reach and involve senior migrant women.
We meet two Sundays a Month. Two hours from 16 – 18. (four p.m. to six p.m.)
We still are a small group about 8 people.

We know that migrant women are alone more hours than they want to be.
When we have our meetings we talk about what we want to do.
At this time it is clear that there is a need of being together.

Being together

When we are together we want to do things at the same time.
We want to go on trips in the surroundings, to be at the sea, to swim in the sea, to walk in the forest, to visit buildings, museums, churches, castles and so on.
We want to bring cakes and coffee and have picnics.
We want to take care of and to support suffering women, to suffering women in our local area and to women abroad.