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The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation.

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Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route

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The Syrian conflict has torn the country apart, leaving thousands dead and driving millions to flee their homes. Many seek refuge in neighbouring countries but others pay traffickers to take them to Europe - risking death, capture and deportation.

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https://youtu.be/RvOnXh3NN9w

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32057601

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https://v.gd/uN3XKM

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Smoke rises from the Syrian city of Kobani, following an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition, seen from a hilltop outside Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border

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ACTIVITIES I CAN DO

There are lots of activities teachers can do with students to raise awareness of newly arrived migrants.
- the refugee chair activity
- invitation of  a couple of refugees who can tell their story
- quizzes
comparisons between pictures of the places before and after the war
-  discussion about conflicts on Earth
- storytelling
- interviews to their relatives
- videos
games
I'm attaching a fantastic file with plenty of games students can do. I've used some of them for my learning activity

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what I've learnt thanks to module 1

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No one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well

your neighbors running faster than you
breath bloody in their throats
the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory
is holding a gun bigger than his body
you only leave home
when home won’t let you stay.

no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied

no one chooses refugee camps
or strip searches where your
body is left aching
or prison,
because prison is safer
than a city of fire
and one prison guard
in the night
is better than a truckload
of men who look like your father
no one could take it
no one could stomach it
no one skin would be tough enough

the
go home blacks
refugees
dirty immigrants
asylum seekers
sucking our country dry
niggers with their hands out
they smell strange
savage
messed up their country and now they want
to mess ours up
how do the words
the dirty looks
roll off your backs
maybe because the blow is softer
than a limb torn off

or the words are more tender
than fourteen men between
your legs
or the insults are easier
to swallow
than rubble
than bone
than your child body
in pieces.
i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
drown
save
be hunger
beg
forget pride
your survival is more important

no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
saying-
leave,
run away from me now
i dont know what i’ve become
but i know that anywhere
is safer than here

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I'm Anna, I live in Puglia a beautiful southern Italian region surrounded by a wonderful sea.
I've been teaching in a Middle school since 2001. The school where I teach is called "Materdona - Moro" and it is in Mesagne (BR). The school staff includes the headteacher, 72 teachers and 12 members of the support staff. This school year we have 683 students organized into 32 classes. There is an interesting percentage of foreign students coming from Albania, Romania, China, Egypt, India and Ivory Coast. Some of them arrived here after a dangerous boat journey across the Mediterranean Sea, while others were born in Italy to foreign parents.

MY EXPECTATIONS ABOUT THIS COURSE

Lots of migrants and refugees land on our coasts. Unfortunately lots of people have bad prejudices about migrants such as "they come here to steal our homes, our jobs .../they destroy everything we give them..."  and pupils grasp their family's opinions. So, the first thing I should do is fighting against ignorance and prejudices. I think I should help pupils become aware of these horrible problems and educate them to values such as tolerance, respect, brotherhood... I hope this course will help me understand how I can address this topic and how I can help my students become aware that we are all world citizens with the same rights.

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International protection seekers are men, women and children forced to leave their country of origin due to persecution, war, violation of human rights. They had to leave their homes, workplaces, families, friend, and social environment. Many of them will not see their loved ones ever again. Many of them have undergone torture, severe violence and have experienced dreadful shipwrecks. They had to undertake longest journeys to seek protection in Europe, in Italy. In inhuman conditions, they faced death crossing continents, countries, deserts and seas.

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ABOUT THE LOCAL BODIES LOCATED NEAR THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE...

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ABOUT THE LOCAL BODIES LOCATED NEAR THE PLACE WHERE I LIVE...

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There are two SPRAR's local bodies near the place where I live: one is in Francavilla Fontana BR) it is called SPRAR Baiti and it is run by Francavilla's Municipality together with "Nuvola Consorzio di Cooperative Sociale". The project started in 2014 and it has 33 homeless places with lots of services such as: information and legal guidance to regain autonomy.

The second local body is located in Latiano (BR), it is called Sprar "Farah" and it is run by Latiano's Municiplality together with "Cooperativa Melograno". It consists of a very big shelter hosting eight protection seekers (1 from Eritrea, 1 from Etiopia, 1 from Libia, 2 from  Iran, 3 from Somalia).

The staff consists of  a social assistant, a language mediator, 2 operators, 2 educators, a psychologist, Personale dell’ente gestore.

The services offered are: literacy, sanitary and psychological assistance, free time activities, opportunities to find employment.

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In 2001 the System of Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) was founded in Italy. Throughout the Italian territory, there are local bodies making part of the System of Protection for Asylum Seekers and Refugees (SPRAR) that receive international protection seekers and holders: people that already applied for asylum (protection seekers), or were granted the status of refugee or any other form of protection (subsidiary or humanitarian).
WHAT THE LOCAL BODIES DO

The local bodies supply accommodation and meals, provides for social assistance activities to gain a better knowledge of the territory and access to local services (i.e. social and health assistance). In addition, activities are conceived to ease the learning of Italian, adult education, access to schools for minors subject to compulsory education, further legal guidance activities on the procedure for the recognition of international protection and on the duties and rights of the beneficiaries according to their status, but also a s eries of activities aiming to socio-economic inclusion of the individuals.