Question

Shouldn’t we take the cultural diversity that we meet on the field into account in the composition of a mobile team?

Problem description

In our cities and towns we meet an important cultural diversity and we are not always well equipped to understand adequately the environment of clients from other cultures

Impact - effect

This can lead to interventions that lose their meaning or make no sense because they simply don’t match with how other cultures approach and understand situations

To do

To do : the served population should be taken into account in the composition of mobile teams, and should be used as basis for staffing teams with persons from other countries

Theme

cultural diversity

Topic

Languages (spoken by team members, cultural diversity in team composition)

Reference -  contact

Christelle Druwez, Antoine Pechez

Mobile team

2A and 2B

Project

Région Hainaut

Intership abroad - place

Birmingham (CRHT Solihull et AOT Matthews Centre)

Date

December 2012