In our Compilation we describe our Can Do approach and you’ll find a selection of methods, we used in the Can Do meetings – highlights of our cooperation! Many thanks to Lea Lazic and Davide Giannelli for the whole editorial management – it was a pleasure to work with you! And thanks a lot to all who contributed in articles, methods, translations, editing etc. – I think our common product will inspire people and we can be proud of it!
The Compilation is available in English, Spanish, French, German, Greek and Arabic.
In our film we give you an insight to our work with refugees. We work with innovative methods like improvisation theater, animation etc.
Many thanks to Coke Rioboo the film maker and Iman Boujnani the manager of the film – it was a pleasure to work with you! And thanks a lot to all who contributed as trainers, participants, translators, editors, idea givers etc. – I think our common product will inspire people and we can be proud of it!
You will find the trailers of the film on our facebook side:
We closed our project in Volos June 2021. Here we had the chance to be evaluated in a participatory evaluation with Florian Wenzel. This gave is inspirations for new CAN DO projects to come, insha allah!
The steering group of this project met last time the 10th of March 2020, some days before the world stoped due to COVID crisis. This last time we said good-bye knowing that we were meeting soon for a big meeting with trainers and trainees in Volos, for what we have been preparing the content and logistics.
Unfortunately we never managed to implement our LTTA meeting, however we kept several online meetings, checking on each others and learning a lot of distance working…
#TORNAREM
One year later, the steering group decided to meet again, to re-start the work all together. However, not all partners were able to fly due to still persistent Covid-19 restrictions.
That’s why we decided to have a blended meeting, where the German partner and the Spanish partner will meet in person, while the rest of partners will join via Zoom.
Valencia was the city that hosted us for this exceptional meeting. It was a short but very intense meeting where we could discuss important aspects of the projects as well as next steps.
While walking the streets of Valencia, we found this street work of art:It’s written in Valencian dialect: «Tornarem», which means «We’ll be back».
And this is the message we want to spread from this project: We’ll be back!
The steering group of the Can Do Refugees meeting (missing in this picture Sulaf, our coordinator from Egypt, and Davide, our coordinator from France!)
Due to the global and pandemic situation caused by the COVID-19, we decided to postpone our LTTA meeting scheduled for June 2020 in Greece. On behalf of all the Can Do Refugees team we hope you are healthy and taking good care of yourself and your beloved ones. In these uncertain times it’s important that we stay together and holding to our values of unity, solidarity, empathy, respect and love.
Feeling the threats of Covid already we held a film and improv theater workshop in Volos. And we met ion the steering group to update us on management matters. These days helped so much to stand the coming months, signed by Covid!
This day Victor gave as an amazing insight in the KOMBI method, we deepened our knowledge in Betzavta with Silvia and Sulaf introduced us to the Samurai exercise. Aaaand: It was time for the certificates to say goodby ;-(
The activities were very useful in making everyone reflect on different issues and gave a lot of opportunities for discussion. We had the opportunity to reflect on different topics like equality, democracy, justice and consensus. The Betzavta exercise was a lot of fun for everybody and we had the chance to have a whole team discussion at the end.
About the presentation of refugees in Germany, there are many things really important which have been said: 1) If we work with refugees, we do not have to feel like a super hero, because If we will be in front of a really hard situation and we think “yes I can do it” but in reality I don’t have the skills for, I would not be helping people. 2) We spoke about the “relationship” we have to have with refugees. Do we have to distinguish the professional and private or not? That was really interesting. I think maybe the question is more about equality, how we can feel “equal” with refugees? and just find the ways which are good for us. 3) I just also remember one really important question someone said: “how we can continue with this work?”
About the activities on the afternoon, that was really intense and rich in my opinion. Cohesion is very important, so I learnt that I need to be less attached to my idea and listen to other people s ideas with new vision. Also, I just questioned myself about how we can express ourselves and also listen to other people s ideas? When that’s good time to do it and why that’s so important for me?
For the collective game with the Betzavta method , the most important thing I learnt was in two aspects: the first one is we have previous to do some activities and even if the new activity was very different, I didn’t feel frustration because we were in a group, and that was a new experience. Also I didn’t think about rules, because I was feeling in positive way, so I wasn’t in an insecure situation.
Social, economical, legal and political situation of Refugees in different countries
A day full of intercultural competence! Marina introduced us to her methods teaching intercultural competence and Katrin and Ronja gave us a Culturatorium lesson. A highlight was Iman’s famous alien exercise, giving so much fun and impulses how we want to include people.
This day begun by a visit of Marseille who teach us the history of the city, and the way migration influenced the history of the city. For example, there was a prison camp who kept (illegally) and tried to deport refugees who had sometime the right to stay. Corporations employed also Italians minors’ worker illegally.
We also visit some famous places of Marseille like, the Mucem which is a museum, the Major Cathedral and Le Panier district. As local citizen (“marseillais”), these places with a lot of history made us learn more things about our town.
In the afternoon we had 2 presentation about the migrant and refugee situation: The 1 st was about migrant travelling on boats, pictures of them before and after. This part was interesting because we learned more about the personal story of refugees. They are not simple number in institutional documents but human-beings who feel and they deserve to be listened. Our participant Corinne told us about a project called JANA (Jeunes Allophones Nouvellement Arrivés), who showed us how they’re learning French language at the association and what kind of activities they do with young people involved in the project. During a short video, young people shared their dreams and their personal or professional aim in life. Léa : It was really intense for me because those young people are actually living in Marseille and they have to face many difficulties every day but they also keep the hope.
What I’ve learned this days is that even when you are living in a difficult situation, as a migrant or refugee in another country, there is some dream that cannot be erased, and people keep dreaming even if it’s difficult. They seem to have post traumatic syndrome due to special situations they are actually living but they continue to fight and need to be helped as much as we can.
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