College Assistant Migrant Program

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College assistant migrant program helps students who are migratory seasonal farm workers enroll in their first year of undergraduate university studies. Those projects include services like visits to employers and graduate programs, vocation exploration and internships. And then to supplement primary education for refugee kids. The US Department for Health and Human Services provides grants to help refugee children to improve their academic performance and adjust and integrate.

High school equivalency program

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The High School Equivalency Program (HEP) helps migratory and seasonal farmworkers (or children of such workers) who are 16 years of age or older and not currently enrolled in school to obtain the equivalent of a high school diploma and, subsequently, to gain employment or begin postsecondary education or training. The program serves approximately 5,000 students annually. Competitive awards are made for up to five years of funding.

 

Overseas Pakistanis Foundation

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Pakistan has established various schools in the Gulf countries and in some other countries where they can provide education to the kids of the migrants to have better access to education.

Under the Emigration Rules made under Emigration Ordinance 1979, Articles of Association, and Memorandum of Overseas Pakistanis Foundation, OPF Education Division is vested with the following responsibilities

National Pact for the Elimination of Slave Labour in the Clothing Manufacturing Sector

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The National Pact for the Elimination of Slave Labour was signed in 2005 by 100 different entities, with private companies, economic groups and 11 business entities (in 2010 there were already 130 signataries).

The Pact envisages the introduction of tools that will be used for the business sector and society to prevent the use of slave labour in the productive chain.

Mexican Health Portals

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The idea of Health Portals is to make it easier for people to get health services, and also to create an awareness about public health. They also do vaccination campaigns. These health portals are done together with private health and public health agencies in the US.

Assessing the Evidence: Environment, Climate Change and Migration in Bangladesh

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The study brings together existing evidence on the climate change, environment and migration nexus in Bangladesh. The evidence in the document comes from a wide variety of sources and studies, including Government of Bangladesh statistics and policy documents, academic research, working papers and other publications and research carried out by national, bilateral and multilateral organizations, NGOs and research institutions.

National Registry of Rural Workers and Employers (RENATEA)

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National Registry of Rural Workers and Employers (RENATEA) is an autonomous body under the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security.

All employers and farm workers must be registered in RENATEA in order to develop their activities in the agriculture field. The Registry also comprises a fund that provides unemployment insurance and an employment record card to all agricultural workers.

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