Yousef Hammad, a refugee from Palestine, recently completed a placement with Mental Health Europe in Brussels (his second as a Tandem Volunteer!). His story of arriving to Europe formed the basis of their recent publication in the Huffington Post. Working with Yousef gave the Mental Health Europe staff the opportunity to hear … Read more…

Another example of how Tandem helps refugees integrate and work.   Abdalla from Syria started his first paid job in Belgium  with ECAS after he did internship for tow weeks with them. Abdalla says : Work with ECAS  for this period had greatly refined my experience in administrative work commensurate with Belgian administrative procedures, and … Read more…