# Newcomers

_Programme · The Kurdish Cooperation Organization · https://kurds.global/development/programmes/newcomers/_

A local guide from a Community Cell for your first months in a new country.

## Record

- **Platform**: Development
- **State**: in-preparation
- **Lede**: The first year in a new country is hard. A local guide can help a newcomer find their way to services and people.
- **A local guide**: A trained volunteer from a Community Cell who knows the city.
- **First-year course**: A course on the first year in a new country.
- **Language help**: Guides in Kurdish varieties and links to host-language classes.
- **Civic guides**: Links to the newcomer guides on the Civic site.
- **Audience**: Recent arrivals, Asylum seekers, Families joining relatives, Students moving abroad
- **Step 1**: Contact: a newcomer registers interest.
- **Step 2**: Match: a Community Cell offers a local guide.
- **Step 3**: Orientation: the guide shows the way to key services.
- **Step 4**: Close: the match ends when the newcomer is settled.

## Provenance

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## See also

- [Development](https://kurds.global/development/)