Partner call: Refugees Boost Talent
Nomadways team was recently strongly inspired by the method of “digital storytelling” and other artistic methods as usual, so we were thinking that it is about time to design a project where we can explore the opportunity to use it to empower refugees to share their stories!
Would you like to be a partner of such project? Yes? Awesome, fill in the application form here.
What is the role of the partner?
+ To join our dissemination plan and help us spread the word of the project before, during and after the activities.
+ To spread the participants call and help us form an amazing team.
+ As a partner, you can invite 1 participant from your organisation to the activities; can propose more participants and will join a super awesome project as a partner, being quoted everywhere!
Let’s build a long lasting partnership starting with “Refugees Boost Talent”!
More information about the project:
Refugees Boost Talent
Germany
1-10 February 2018 (dates to be confirmed in January)
to apply fill in the application form here: http://bit.ly/refugeetalent-partnerform
if you have any questions, contact [email protected]
In the summer of 2015, Europe experienced the highest influx of refugees and displaced population since the Second World War. Over 4 million people have fled from Syria. Nearly half of them seek asylum in Europe, more 60% in Germany. By accepting them into our countries and integrating them into our societies, we have much to gain.
Referring to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 12 (1998), which signifies it is the right of children to express views freely 'in all matters affecting' them and to have them taken seriously, along with other rights such as freedom of expression, religion, and the right to privacy. Many of these young refugees have experienced conflict and suffered trauma; their resettlement experience is often coupled with a number of barriers including poverty, poor housing, low language skills, discrimination, social isolation, complicated appeals procedures, and difficulties accessing mainstream services. As studies have proved the contribution of the arts activities to the mental and physical health of the participants, suggesting that the incorporation of such activities into an organisation’s engagement activities improves both key skills and overall wellbeing. Therefore, the interest of developing strategic policies for arts-based practices working with refugees and asylum seekers increased.
Refugees Boost Talent is a jointly activity project to create a bigger impact on empowering and raising the voice of refugees in Europe and to give them the possibilities to share their stories, using the innovative tool of digital storytelling. The activity is designed for youth workers having experience and interest in working with young refugees.
