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The project answers coherently to the problem of high social exclusion of the asylum seekers and refugees (beneficiaries of International protection) on Romanian territory. The project proposes an integrated intervention in 5 refugees centres in our country: Bucharest, Galati, Radauti, Somcuta Mare (Maramures county) and Timisoara. Given the international political context, in the last years we have noticed an increased number of asylum requests in Romania (over 2000 annual requests) – 20% of the asylum requests are sent in for children. The analysis prepared by the applicant in the planning phase of the project showed that asylum seekers and refugees in our country have a low level of human rights knowledge, refugee children have a poor access to education and a lack of support towards educational adaptation, limited access to linguistic assistance. The project`s intervention addresses 600 asylum seekers and beneficiaries of international protection from the 5 centres. We will organize informative workshops on human rights and social and economic rights for these target groups, we will have consultations with the beneficiaries of services, we will provide support services for social and economical integration of asylum seekers and refugees, we will develop a model for integrated services replicable in other initiatives, we will create local networks of support, including action plans at a community level and roundtables with relevant stakeholders. The activities will be carried out by Save the Children and JRS Romania. The two organizations have a consistent experience in working with similar target groups and bring as input to the project good practices and lessons learned from previous endeavours. Through the project, 14 employees of the two organizations that will be involved in working with the target groups will be trained in order to improve the organizational capacity of Save the Children and JRS Romania.