ÅlAND SUMMER JAM IS BACK

Dancer Sara Galan

Åland Summer Jam, the only major social event on the island initiated by an immigrant, now in its fourth- year, is back at Miramarparken in July 2012 with a variety of performers and  traditional musicians from West Africa.

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A new documentary for the children of Åland

The life of young children in Africa is something that the children on Åland are very curious to know. For the subject of his first documentary film Långt Bort (Far Away), Hej Åland founder Alieu Khan opted to focus on that area.

With support from the Åland Local Government, he recently travelled to his native country and together with his local cameraman they followed the activities of two 9-year olds in Brikama, one...

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Degree no job guarantee for immigrants

Up to three-quarters of immigrants in Finland with a higher education are without jobs. A new doctoral dissertation indicates that language barriers, the generally poor situation in the job market and discrimination are among the problems faced by well-educated immigrants.

In many cases, degrees held by immigrants are not directly comparable to Finnish degrees.

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Alieu Khan create short documentary for school children

In November 2011,Hej Åland coorindator and founder Alieu Khan is travelling to his native country, The Gambia. One of his assigments during his two-weeks stay is to create a thirty- minutes documentary about the life of a school child in developing West Africa.

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