Refugee inclusion projects
If refugees are to be successfully included in Swiss society, their residential status in Switzerland must be clarified as quickly as possible and their integration begun at the earliest stages. Through its legal advice offices, HEKS/EPER strives also to enable asylum seekers, sans-papiers (undocumented persons) and other socially underprivileged people to claim their rights and participate in social life on an equitable basis. Through its inclusion projects HEKS/EPER strives to boost the self-confidence and autonomy of refugees, which entails focusing on the areas of job market integration, structuring of daily routines and encounters, assisted living, language, intercultural interpreting and intermediation, child and parent education, and age and migration.