Guidelines on How to Work in SCORP

IFMSA is all about "thinking globally, acting locally", so the easiest to do when starting SCORP in your university or NMO is to ask yourself: what are the SCORP issues I would like to address here? Is there a need for information about refugees, about conflict prevention, human rights or racism?

Some very good and easy-to-do activities to start with are:

• Inform yourself about the current situation in your country on the topic you are interested in. The websites mentioned above might be a good starting point.

• Then ask yourself: what do you want to achieve with your activity? Do you want to inform the general public about this topic, do you want to help certain people (refugees, homeless, detainees, victims of disaster)?

• If you have defined your goal (for example making medical students aware of the problems refugees encounter) you can start an awareness campaign.

• Handing out leaflets (copy information from the Internet, books and magazines on paper, write something yourself, what YOU feel is important) and distribute it among your peers.

• You can hold a lecture about this topic. You can do it yourself, using the information you just gathered, you can ask a Professor you know, someone from the local Red Cross or Red Crescent department, someone from Medecins sans Frontieres or.... Most people will be more than happy to help you as they feel that this is also an important topic.

• Show a film about this topic

• Collect money or clothing for relief of victims of war or disaster

• Visit a refugee camp or centre,  a jail or prison, a shelter for battered women or....

• Organise a small workshop (2-3 lecturers, video, discussion) for half a day if you want to inform people better and really teach them something

• Start a project in a refugee camp or something else. If you would like to do this,  please contact the SCORP Director