Erasmus+ Training course on tools for inclusion of migrants and refugees Berlin, Germany 23 - 30. 04. 2017
AN INTERVIEW FROM BOTH DIRECTIONS W/ MARIA FRADES & ROSEY BROWN Rosey: Hi Maria, great to meet with you today. Maria: Likewise. R: What are you hoping to get out of the training? M: Exchanging opinions, and hearing about the other participants’ experiences. How about you? R: Me too! I’m also hoping to learn more about making projects more inclusive for refugees. Is this your first Erasmus project?
M: Yes. I’m looking forward to learning the basic skills of teamwork, and how to manage projects. Since I’m having so much fun I really believe I'll join more projects like this in the future. How do you think this project can change your mind – it’s such a multicultural environment? R: Yes, I’m really excited to learn about different cultures and get to know people from diverse backgrounds. If it wasn’t for projects like this I might never have met someone from Macedonia, or Georgia, for example. Then I’d only have impressions from the media – and these can so often be biased. M: Absolutely. Do you think this intercultural understanding will help us with our work with migrants in the future? R: It’s good practice. And that’s why events like these are so important for youth workers. M: Yes. I’m looking forward to learning the basic skills of teamwork, and how to manage projects. Since I’m having so much fun I really believe I will join more projects like this one in the future. How do you think this project can change your mind – it’s such a multicultural environment? R: Yes, I’m really excited to learn about different cultures and get to know people from diverse backgrounds. If it wasn’t for projects like this I might never have met someone from Macedonia, or Georgia, for example. Then I’d only have impressions from the media – and these can so often be biased. M: Absolutely. Do you think this intercultural understanding will help us with our work with migrants in the future? R: It’s good practice. And that’s why events like these are so important for youth workers.
EXPECTATIONS E rasmus+ Projects M ulticultural P ersonal growth O pportunity W orking together E xperience R efugee rights M emories E xchange N etwork T ravel
SEEING THE EFFECT
Syrians are highly deprived of their basic needs. This issue is important in humanitarian perspectives. It is a world-problem. According to statics from 2016 -2017, 7 million people have been obliged to migrate out of Syria. Syrians are highly deprived of their basic needs. This issue is important in humanitarian perspectives. It is a world-problem. According to statics from 2016 -2017, 7 million people have been obliged to migrate out of Syria.
Rather than to have a comfortable life, Syrians are concerning about meeting their basic needs such as the safety, food, shelter and sanity. The governments and NGOs from all over the world, especially neighboring countries are trying to help Syrians and to those who keep their journey through survival. But… how does this situation affect the helping countries and instruments? How the refugee crisis affect the community that we live and us in? We will be summarizing the answer in some bullet points; as obviously this issue has some positive and challenging sides. Positive: Cultural development Social inclusion Employment for occasional lack Encouragement for governments to take actions Promoting tolerance and mind-opening Challenging: Economical shortage Demographical changes Geographical changes Social inclusion Cultural differences Communicational barriers Lacks of opportunities in education and health services Unemployment International conficts and way of thoughts Division of society Statistical problems
LEARNING FROM ONE ANOTHER "We cannot act effectively if we don't know about one another. By accepting the differences and connecting the similarities, maybe we won't change the world but we'll definitely influence it!"
Muhammed, Sidrah, Mustafa were three young school-friends who have never thought that they would start a journey as refugees one day. They left their homes suddenly without knowing about their future. Firstly, they were all together and then, separated their directions. Muhammed headed to Lebanon as he saw the country similar to his culture and stayed there. However, Sidrah and Mustafa considered that Lebanon had become more and more troubled with the economy with water. This is why they decided to continue their way to Germany by walking through Turkey. In Turkey they saw lots of camps and institutions for people having the same culture with them, feeling safe and sound. They gave the camps a chance, but then realized Turkish people were getting divided,
culturally changed and economically deprived. Sidrah was in the idea that Turkey was not enough. They wanted freedom, a hopeful future and basically, more. They hoped for a life similar to their previous days. They passed though the borders of Greece and arrived to the lands where they could work but still could not find what they were wishing for, better chances. They were heading to Balkans, going through divergent stages. For instance, they faced with close-borders in Albania while they never met someone from their homes in Bosnia. They stayed a while in Macedonia, where they saw civils working, but not having effective solutions. In the meantime, they somehow received a letter from Muhammed. He said in his letter that he moved from Algeria to Morocco, and was planning to move to Spain because he thought he could make his life better with a half-year of support from the government. Hearing this, Sidrah changed his mind and decided to go to the Mediterrean, where she could hopefully find more of herself. She left Mustafa and went to her own way, while Mustafa was still on his way to Germany. On the way, he was told that the government of Germany would accept him, but he public might not. Hearing this, he still did not give up and believed in the possibilities to have better opportunities in Berlin. After a year later, Mustafa was settled in Berlin and things were going fine with him with the society, thanks to the youth workers. He lost contact of Muhammed but after a long while, he got a letter from Sidrah, saying that she was taking asylum protection and having good care in Portugal. She was all happy with the media effect in Portugal, but sad that the Portugese were leaving day by day.Â
In the letter, she said that she missed her home so much, and her friends as well; she could do anything to be at her hometown again. They were both healthy and in good terms, had seen a lot and how the world was changing. Yet, nothing could fill the loneliness they had, leave alone the simplest happinesses.
FACING CHALLENGES...
WE... TOGETHER
We! We have the power! We have to intergrate... We have the power to influence... We have the power to built a new world World where we can destroy the borders And create together a new community Community full of peace and acceptance.
Empathise
When migrants came Inform
To reach their dreams Influence Locals should be there To show them where Refugees, migrants Regular or not Don't let the relation To be cut Youth or older Let's be one shoulder
Be patient
Care
Socialise
Explain Be tolerant Support
Connect Collaborate
A FAIRYBEE IN BERLIN
In the enormous world of literature, one is pretty used to fairytales and love stories. This one is surely not an imaginative one, but created through the inspiration given by youth workers everywhere and written with deep, true emotions. A fairybee is a creature with magnificent talents; hardworking, creative and intelligent, using his witty mind and spreading sincere love, knowledge and kindness by his sting. There are a lot of fairybees in the world. You can visionize them as little birds singing on the trees or flying freedomly in the air. The fairybees sing across the borders, they find their paths to fly and to be free. They have such a big passion that it could change the humanity. One day, the fairybees from a dozen of hives packed all the bags and flew to Germany to meet their fellow friends. They got united for a reason.
The reason had its origins from the wrongs of the humanity: losing the virtues of living, losing the mercy. The union was intense, full of diversity and fire of young fairybees. All the fairybees told their own stories for days and the others listened calmly, tried to build empathy and understanding. The head of the fairybees was named as Queen Bee. The queen made a name for oneself as she was gorgeously beautiful, wise and caring. If a fairybee had any sadness, he would directly go to the cozy arms of the Queen. The queen that we tell stories about was listening silently to the fairybees having heat conversations about what the humankind did. She was lost in thoughts, sharing her mood in her eyes everytime she looked at the other mentors in the union. Even though she was usually silent in the meetings the fairybees had, in deep down she was screaming, crying for the irrecoverable mistakes that the human made to one another. The bees spent hours and hours for their discussions, their wings were hurt from the fatigue.Â
They learned a bunch from each other; some of their ideas contradicted, still they found their way to respect at the end. There had been a lot of unions of fairytales and until the apoclypse they knew that there would be other unions; but they were different somehow. The pure combination of ideas wandered in the speed of light in the air. Their smiles created heavenly goods for the human to use. Their endless bumbles uncovered talents that had never been discovered.
The sky was painted to countless colors, leaving behind all the ashes, the black and the gray. The humankind came into the realization that they were mortal siblings, having very limited time in this world to taste. Yet, they chose to waste this time creating chaoses, dying the skies of fairybees to the darkest shades. Though it was the duty of the fairybee to show the human their fails, why should he breathe filthy smoke the human caused in the first place? Why shouldn’t he hold the hand of the human to draw rainbows of skins to the sky together? This was the question that the fairybees was looking for the answer to. After all their efforts with their last energies in their bodies they flew through the clouds back to their homes, still troubled by tears in their eyes. Yet, their stings were full with antivenom. This was the knowledge they owned and shared through their days of union; very new, promising and restless. As they started to descend to their homelands, their antivenoms poured as raindrops.
The sky was painted to a mysterious gray for the one last time to bring all the colors together. The human came into a big realization by feeling the drops on their bodies: the realization of who they are. The realization of what is to be a human and what is not. Their grateful tears of regret was meddled with the raindrops for all the good that the fairybees brought with themselves. The flattered humanity never lost their path again, holding their gratitude still for their guardians, the fairybees.
The Loesje posters Here are the posters created during the training course "Migrant´s rights - simple needs shouldn´t be a dream". Find them on and spread them from www.loesje.org/posterarchive/advanced
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