To help migrants integrate across the EU, the group must not be limited to the vulnerable role of mere supplicants who file their requests at public offices. Instead, when they enter into contact with the local civil society groups, the immigrants start feeling empowered as individuals and as a group and will therefore speak out more freely about their needs and concerns. The project aims at collecting and multiplying good practices to enhance the know-how of voluntary NGO workers active at the grass-roots level of a given municipality or district. By focusing on local NGOs, the project will allow an exchange of good practices, for example on the ways to provide non-formal education to adult migrants.Slowly but surely, we make progress as we attempt to reach out to vulnerable communities at risk of social exclusion. In the case of each partner organisation we forge new bonds with groups and individuals, winning their trust and encouraging them to participate in our activities in the capacity of our consultants who can offer their invaluable and unique expertise on specific problems of specific groups at a high risk of exclusion. Some of them are nationals of the nearby Ukraine while others originate from Africa, India or Israel. While we offer our consultants an insight into our districts and municipalities, we also draw inspiration from them. Our voluntary workers obtain unique in-depth knowledge about other people and about cultural differences and they obtain it from person-to-person contacts rather than the mass media. We wish to share this knowledge and experience with others for mutual benefit and with a hope to lay the groundwork for more acceptance of immigrants in our societies, acceptance that is founded on profound and direct individual contacts with those newly arrived. This exchange is mutually enriching, especially as we learn to be guides to our home country.