The project will pair up more than 90 local 18- to 25-year-olds with newly arrived and unaccompanied young refugees over the next three years.
The project is being run by the charity Refugee Action and builds on a previous initiative that helped integrate 300 young refugees into communities.
Julie Kashirahamwe, youth and community project manager at Refugee Action, said: "From the earlier project, we found that the young service users were naturally taking on a mentoring role with the newly arrived young people, who were afraid to go anywhere on their own. We wanted to put a structure around it."
The project has received a grant of 214,000 from the North West Community Fund and 50,000 from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation.
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