THE INTERNATIONAL FINLAND: A football tournament as a tool to encourage immigrant community participation in Helsinki
Kalule, Andrew (2021)
2021
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021100218246
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2021100218246
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ABSTRACT
ANDREW KALULE
The international Finland: A football tournament as a tool to encourage immigrant community participation in Helsinki
Pages 53 and 5 attachments
Published (September, 2021)
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of social services
Degree programme in social services
This project-oriented thesis represents a football tournament that was carried out in collaboration with Toiminnan Avulla Työelämään-TAT, a non-profit program under Helsinki Young Men Christian Association-HNMKY. The aim of the thesis was to encourage immigrant community participation through the arrangement of a sixteen-day football tournament for at least sixteen immigrant communities in Helsinki. The project's background was to address the issue of the social gap among immigrant communities as a result of the pandemic social reforms. The tournament happened between the 30th of June and the 24th of July 2021 with an estimated attendance of eight hundred immigrants in Helsinki.
Throughout the project, asset mapping was the primary method used. This helped participants identify resources in their communities and use them to solve the social gap problem. The main activities of the project included work life training, in which ten candidates from various immigrant communities participated in match officiation and nine in security training sessions, respectively. This was done in order to help the candidates develop skills for future job searches in Finland. Furthermore, over the course of the project, the participants competed in 32 football games. Additionally, various foods were sold by entrepreneurs from the participants. This was done to promote cultural exchange and economic stability in the communities that took part in the project. The project coordinating team consisted of twenty-nine people that worked together in order to ensure suitable services for the vast masses in a short-term project span. Among them were three TAT supervisors, ten match officials, five security officers, two match commissioners, two first-aid staff, and seven volunteers.
Following the tournament, one TAT supervisor and I, along with sixteen community representatives, organized an outcome-based project evaluation through an informal online group meeting. As a result, the project's key achievements included the acquisition of new daily working skills through TAT-funded training sessions, strong social interactions among participants, and monetary gains from the sold food. The success of the project enabled TAT consider organizing more projects of the same caliber in the future.
Key words: Participation, Community, Community participation, social cohesion, Immigrant and covid-19
ANDREW KALULE
The international Finland: A football tournament as a tool to encourage immigrant community participation in Helsinki
Pages 53 and 5 attachments
Published (September, 2021)
Diaconia University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor of social services
Degree programme in social services
This project-oriented thesis represents a football tournament that was carried out in collaboration with Toiminnan Avulla Työelämään-TAT, a non-profit program under Helsinki Young Men Christian Association-HNMKY. The aim of the thesis was to encourage immigrant community participation through the arrangement of a sixteen-day football tournament for at least sixteen immigrant communities in Helsinki. The project's background was to address the issue of the social gap among immigrant communities as a result of the pandemic social reforms. The tournament happened between the 30th of June and the 24th of July 2021 with an estimated attendance of eight hundred immigrants in Helsinki.
Throughout the project, asset mapping was the primary method used. This helped participants identify resources in their communities and use them to solve the social gap problem. The main activities of the project included work life training, in which ten candidates from various immigrant communities participated in match officiation and nine in security training sessions, respectively. This was done in order to help the candidates develop skills for future job searches in Finland. Furthermore, over the course of the project, the participants competed in 32 football games. Additionally, various foods were sold by entrepreneurs from the participants. This was done to promote cultural exchange and economic stability in the communities that took part in the project. The project coordinating team consisted of twenty-nine people that worked together in order to ensure suitable services for the vast masses in a short-term project span. Among them were three TAT supervisors, ten match officials, five security officers, two match commissioners, two first-aid staff, and seven volunteers.
Following the tournament, one TAT supervisor and I, along with sixteen community representatives, organized an outcome-based project evaluation through an informal online group meeting. As a result, the project's key achievements included the acquisition of new daily working skills through TAT-funded training sessions, strong social interactions among participants, and monetary gains from the sold food. The success of the project enabled TAT consider organizing more projects of the same caliber in the future.
Key words: Participation, Community, Community participation, social cohesion, Immigrant and covid-19