Mentors for refugees women, will empower mentees to overcome challenging circumstances and help them find ways to make social connections and integrate with their local community and groups, referring and signposting them to other organisations providing more specialist support if needed.
Your support will help:
Women break cycles of social isolation, improve family cohesion and wellbeing.
Unfold to have greater reach in making a positive impact on the lives of many vulnerable women, living in Westminster.
Support one of the most vulnerable groups in our communities. We aim to break the barriers that keep refugee women excluded from mainstream services and support them through their experience of being a parent.
Meeting 1-2 hrs a week, on a 1-2-1 basis, over a duration of 24 weekly session, you'll:
- Empower your mentee to overcome challenging circumstances and help them find ways to make social connections and integrate with their local community and groups, referring and signposting them to other organisations providing more specialist support if needed.
- Through encouragement and active listening, you will support your mentees’ mental wellbeing, by providing a safe space to discuss the challenges faced as woman face and the increased challenges and barriers your mentee will face being a mother and a refugee.
- Being trained in positive psychology and coaching style techniques, you will support your mentee to help them achieve their goals and get them where they want to be.
You will gain transferable skills relevant for personal and professional development, this includes but is not limited to team working, empathetic leadership, organisation, growth mindset and adaptive communication styles and approaches.
Through our compulsory monthly group supervision, you will have the opportunity to share your journey and support others though your learning.
Time commitment
Through mentee and mentor testimonies we have seen the positive impact holding sessions in person vs online has, and so we would ask any perspective volunteers to be prepared to be available for all in person session should this be the required need of your mentee.
Attending monthly group online meetings, which is a great opportunity for all the mentors to come together discuss challenges, successes and further develop mentoring skills.