From awareness and counselling to reception and long-term support — a complete pathway for dignified return.
Six interconnected areas of work — from preventing irregular migration to rebuilding lives after return — that form WELDO’s end-to-end support for migrants and their families.
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Human-trafficking is a transnational crime. Migrants are vulnerable to exploitations by smugglers. Children in migration, in particular unaccompanied migrant children, are especially vulnerable to traffickers.
WELDO has launched awareness-raising campaigns against illegal migration in Pakistan aiming to reduce the vulnerabilities and challenges faced by migrants, to sensitise and empower potential migrants to make informed decisions about irregular migration and in turn contribute to reducing illegal migration towards European countries.
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There’s strong need to promote dignified voluntary returns among detainees, refugees and irregular migrants, who are either detained or want to leave but do not have the financial or logistics resources or residing within Diaspora community.
WELDO is working with local communities, diaspora groups and European partner institutions to encourage those returnees who have been detained or immigrated illegally to return voluntarily. WELDO provides credible information that can help returnees with the resettlement process on arrival in Pakistan, share success stories of returnees who have returned and reintegrated successfully and encourages returnee to return voluntarily in a dignified manner to their country of origin with full confidence and assistance offered by WELDO’s trained staff.
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Immediate support services to returnees when they arrive in their home country ensure that they feel welcome and safe.
WELDO provides all immediate on-arrival services including travel arrangements for returnees to their final destination, an overnight stay prior to onward travel and assistance returnees with emergency medical needs. WELDO have established partnership and business linkages with all the major travel providers, hotels and guest-houses and hospitals and pharmacies to help returnees with their on-arrival support needs ensuring that they have a positive experience on their return.
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Sustainable Reintegration can only be achieved by taking into consideration the social, economic and psycho-social reintegration of the returnees.
WELDO provides complete range of reintegration services to returnees including access to housing and accommodation, access to schooling and trainings, access to documentation support and social protection schemes, access to health and well-being services and in some cases access to legal support as well. Similarly economic reintegration provides returnees with economic autonomy, which means that WELDO offers variety of services to returnees including business scoping studies, business startup counselling support, provision of business plans, job placement assistance, apprenticeship training assistance, interview and CV preparation assistance and skill-based training and educational support.
WELDO has extensive network of partners including skill development Institutions, Government department, chamber of commerce, local business recruitment agencies to ensure that returnees become self sufficient to support their immediate and extended families. If a returnee achieves successful economic reintegration, the need to remigrate is completely diminished.
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Returnees are a vulnerable group of individuals who have no homes, no legal protection and are in need of specific human rights protection interventions. These returnees may include vulnerable females, victims of trafficking, unaccompanied minors, individuals with disabilities.
These returnees require comprehensive support through psycho-social assistance on emotional, behavioural and cultural level especially vulnerable females. Broken ties with family and friends because of absence from home, shame of return, guilt of not being able to have a successful life abroad, discrimination, low self-esteem, negative self-perception, and cultural changes make return process extremely difficult for these individuals therefore specialised tailor-made assistance is provided to such returnees through individual and focus group discussion sessions, tracing of family members of unaccompanied minors, holding returnee support meetings with the returnees’ families, through counselling and referral to social well-being organisations and networks; ensuring returnees receive every opportunity to rebuild their lives and are able to enjoy happy and sustainable quality of life.
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To offer effective protection and assistance to labour migrants and their families and to safeguard their interest, pathways to regular migration need to be streamlined.
WELDO is fostering synergies between labour migration and skill-development to promote legal avenues of labour migration as an alternative to irregular migration. WELDO is conducting labor market surveys and expanding its scoping studies to encourage and facilitate the recruitment of workers overseas through legal channels; including pre-departure training and promoting the integration of labour migrants in their new workplace and society.
WELDO is offering policy and technical advice to national government, European counterparts and their partner to promote safe labour migration practices, effective protection and assistance to labour migrants and their families.
Whether you are a partner institution, a returnee seeking assistance, or an organisation exploring collaboration — we are here to help.