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in Greece there are families with children or children with no parent

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I think that we need not only to give them the opportunity to survive, but we need to give them the opportunity to live their dreems and to transfer the hope to reality. They are human as we.

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I find all the videos of this section  very interesting. The stories of the migrants are very different and effective. We can have  refugees, migrant workers looking for a better social and working future. The last video is very touching.

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Migrant children are stimuli for the whole class to collaborate, to help themselves, to understand themselves. From them you can learn a lot: they are a rich comparison with their peers

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1.3 Who are newly arrived migrants?

The newly arrived migrants are men leaving their country to look for a job that allows them to earn more money for their family. There are women and children who run from their country because there are wars.

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In my city, in the last twelve years, as it emerged from demografic data, there has been a steady increase in migration. Lamezia Terme is currently the most multiethnic city of Calabria, where there are about 4.290 immigrants, accounting for 6% of the population, mostly from Marocco and Romania. In fact, for to its strategic location, the presence of airport and railway, is a point of focal point for the immigrant passage. Immigration in the recent years has been characterized by increase in women and young ( 0 - 14 years), as a result of the frequent family reunions.

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The people I met are people like we are, the only difference is the fact that they were forced to leave their countries, because of various reasons, as we observed in the previous part. They have different backgrounds and lot of courrage to leave, in search for a better future.

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The above videos are touching and approach the issue of migrants from a humanitarian perpective. Despite racial, social, political, religious or other differences migrants are individuals who flee their country carrying with them their fears, traumatical experiences, hopes, competencies and talents and should be treated with respect and compassion. They have the right to dream of a better future.

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Who are newly arrived migrants?
Key words: forced to flee...

"Wo Once your family has been forced to flee from a place, you learn to become a person of the world, rather than of a particular country."

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In the town where I work most of the migrants are asylum seekers, very few of them moved for economic reasons, a better job and more money. The majority of migrants in my region have been forced to move because of war in their country and for political reasons.  Currently there are 4.700 foreign people in Lamezia Terme, they come from Morocco, Romania and Ucraine. There are different organizations which are part of a big project, "S.P.R.A.R." (Protection system for asylum seekers and Refugees). They are: Associazione Comunità Progetto Sud and Comunità Lunarossa , Associazione Mago Merlino, Cooperativa Il Delta, Cooperativa Integrazione Calabria, Arci.  Comunità Lunarossa hosts minors  without their parents and its operators work hardly to promote inclusion and help them in everyday life.

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Cittadini Stranieri 2016 - Lamezia Terme (CZ)

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Popolazione straniera residente a Lamezia Terme al 1° gennaio 2016. Distribuzione per area geografica di cittadinanza e grafico con piramide delle età. Elaborazioni su dati ISTAT.

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I find all the videos of this section  very interesting. The stories of the migrants are very different and effective. We can have  refugees, migrant workers looking for a better social and working future. The last video is very touching. Mildred’s words “ I was the bread winner. I’m fortunate. I’m alive” express very strongly all the effort and the desperation of a refugee who sees the death of the family, parents and tries to keep on in a new country where everything is different and also very difficult.

80% of refugees and evacuees  in the world are  women , often with their children because their husbands or men died for war, persecutions. See the link below about the Refugees in Italy.

CIR (Italian Council for Refugees)

http://cir-onlus.org/en/what/our-services-in-italy

http://cir-onlus.org/it/comunicazione/statistiche

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The Hope School of Skaramagas is only one of the communities born in the very difficult situation migrants, refugees and Greek Citizens found themselves in. The crisis did not permit funding but help was always available. Unemployed people have plenty of time in their hands and in Hellas most of them decided to use it for Solidarity. People were helping at the port of Piraeus and practically everywhere refugees and needed people existed.
Hope School is named from the Hope it offered to students and teachers alike. The Migrant School of Piraeus played a major role during the formation, but the refugees quickly took charge. More on
https://www.facebook.com/pg/HopeSchoolatskaramagas/about/?ref=page_internal

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http://www.minocp.gov.gr/index.php?option=ozo_content&lang=EN&perform=view&id=5055&Itemid=466&lang=GR?option=ozo_search&lang=EN
The page of Greek Ministry of Public Order.
In my city, Patras, Greece, there aren't refugees right now. They have been transferred to other areas.

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In my city the only organization wich is interesting in refugees and migrants is "ricostruire insieme" ( Caritas Diocesiana dell'Aquila, il Comitato Arci L'Aquila, Rindertimi, Gentium, Iris, Pralipè, Inti Raymi , Asil, Afipo, Unimondo.) and has

the task of harmonizing the service to immigrants in the various sectors, with training sessions and information. This service follows the people at the time of their insertion in Italy, with particular attention to extreme discomfort situations, especially where there are children. The Immigration Service and Education for Peace Mondialità and the collaboration and assistance of immigrants already in the territory and assist individuals or families in specific situations, for example, the renewal difficulties of some types of travel, service health, family reunification, cases pertaining to the juvenile court, accompanying them in the appeals.
The migrants are 1.670 men and 1.867 women, the 20% are romanians.

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Background of migrants is very important in order to know them better and help them. Many people suffer in order to get integrated in a new community. The video with individual stories was very interesting in order to understand better their different backgrounds.

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I find all the videos of this section  very interesting. The stories of the migrants are very different and effective. We can have  refugees, migrant workers looking for a better social and working future. The last video is very touching. Mildred’s words “ I was the bread winner. I’m fortunate. I’m alive” express very strongly all the effort and the desperation of a refugee who sees the death of the family, parents and tries to keep on in a new country where everything is different and also very difficult.

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http://cir-onlus.org/en/media2/statistics

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As I previously stated, in my city, Setúbal, we don’t have many refugees or newly migrants. We have only 6 families of  refugees. They came from Greece and were replaced in Portugal by UNHCR.Two families are from Syria, three from Kurdistan and one from Iraq. In these families are around 16 children ( two babies included). The adults are around 30 and 40 years old. One family has been living here for a year now and the others have recently arrived. The adults are unemployed and they are facing some problems of integration, mainly due to the lack of portuguese language knowledge. The children  are attending primary and junior highschools in the city..

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These video are very touching! Being forced to leave your own country  must be terrible. Against they will leave it for wars, poverty, natural disasters, unemplyment, political reasons.. and look for safety, new opportunities, stability and freedom! If all the world were a safe and stable place, people would move just for pleasure!

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In Greece, newly arrived migrants are particularly touched by the financial crisis and many of those who used to work in the informal sector, including in agriculture, have lost their jobs. The presence of a large number of migrants in the streets of Athens, many unemployed and some homeless, has led to some social and political tension. There are also many irregular migrants who are detained up to several months in various establishments, such as police stations, border guard stations and coast guard facilities, which are clearly not suitable for long-term detention. In some of the detention facilities, the migrants have limited access to toilets; some facilities have no artificial lighting so that during the winter, migrants are in the dark from early afternoon. Most of the detention facilities visited lack heating and hot water and the detainees complain about insufficient amounts and poor quality of food, lack of soap and other hygiene products, as well as insufficient clothing, shoes and blankets.

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Newly arrived migrants in my neighbourhood used to be from Albania. Now they are from the Middle East (Pakistan), and are very few. They have large families (e.g. with four children). Families are male dominated. The father works for employers, or manages to create his own business (like a small car washing station).

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A document to explain some vocabulary and general facts about newly arrived migrants in Belgium.

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Video made by a primary school in Belgium together with the local antenna of the Red Cross. The video shows what can happen to migrant families in Belgium.

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Le parcours des demandeurs d'asile vu par 25 enfants de 4 et 5eme primaire. Un projet réalisé avec le soutien de la Croix Rouge de Belgique a l'Ecole Enrico Macias de Hotton. Chico et Moclou construisent un bateau afin d'accompagner un animal marin lors de son dernier voyage.

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The sensitivity and solidarity are the basis for a civil and dignified coexistence. Migrants and refugees leave their countries are full of hope for their future, but often face a sad and cruel reality, the indifference of the people around them. The videos are very interesting, I think you should see all of them in order to understand the suffering of people who leave their country and seek refuge in Italy.

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Migrants are living a drama that no one desires or deserves. It is a shameful situation. History will judge us by the inability to resolve this situation. We must welcome them and treat them as full citizens and help them to know our culture and give them the opportunity to make themselves known and live according to their culture. It must be their choice.
The  videos are very inspiring and help create empathy and to do better.

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My students will listen about Mildred and Yusra because they have to know from the first hand who are those people. They are not some images from News, they are suffering today, now - fighting for their lives in the sea ... for real. And they deserve our attention and understanding and help. How can we help if we don't know about their real life!
(And this:The International Organization for Migration works to ensure that people affected by crises can access protection and assistance. In doing so, it follows the Principles for Humanitarian Action (PHA), which underpin the Migration Crisis Operational Framework and aim to ensure that the Organization acts on the basis of robust principles and as part of the humanitarian response system...)

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“Refugees have skills, ideas, hopes and dreams… They are also tough, resilient and creative, with the energy and drive to shape their own destinies, given the chance.”
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi

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1.4 Who are newly arrived migrants.

As said before, most of the migrants are asylum seekers, very few of them are economic migrants at all. Actually there are 500/600 men and women in my area and their average age is 20/30 for both men and women. They remain in Lamezia area for 6 months about, if they get a permission in short times; they stay a bit longer, 2 or 3 years, if they don't receive it immediately. Very young people like living here.

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Rossana, Brindisi- Italy                             I got in touch with a local organization and I learned a lot about the situation. There are few families in a hosting house and a community for 15 minors, but apart from that only males aged from 20 to 30. They spend time in the CARA and Cas that are neraby and also at the SPRAR. Some of them are refugee but mostly migrants.

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Rossana, Brindisi- Italy                             I got in touch with a local organization and I learned a lot about the situation. There are few families in a hosting house and a community for 15 minors, but apart from that only males aged from 20 to 30. They spend time in the CARA and Cas that are neraby and also at the SPRAR. Some of them are refugee but mostly migrants.

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We are user to think only on our Golden Life. In other countries they consider themselves lucky if they have bread.

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The videos make us understand the situation of these people and make us think about questions whose answers are very difficult ti give.

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These videos are very instructive and interesting. I think lifelong learning has an important role for migrants, ethnic minorities and socio economically disadvantaged groups since it serves as integration process, the participation in training programmes and in lifelong learning are an opportunity for newly arrived immigrants.

At the same time, there is a need to encourage the establishment of immigrant organisations, which are in a position to provide information and support for newly arrived immigrants, and the participation of their representatives in programmes as educators.

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This videos are very interesting and instructive. It's good for students to know problems and needs of people, to feeling them closer to you, I have in Myers class immigrants' children and I like listening to their stories.

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These videos are  very instructive. Because  we are learning new stories. These videos are that  we need to empathize. We have to try to understand these people.  We must know  they are like us. ın normal conditions No one wants to be an immigrant.

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The organization I have met is called Luna Rossa (Red Moon , in English).It Is a SPRAR, according to our country laws, that means  a Protection system for asylum seekers and Refugees.
Its main goal is to host young foreigners ,in our country ,without their parents or any relatives.
We know that
very young migrants who need a shelter but above all protection more than adults arrive on our coasts almost everyday.
This organization works
hardly with them trying to promote their inclusion in everyday life in our town.They have chosed to work with small groups of migrants so they are able to take cure of them better .

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These three videos are very touching. I think students need to hear individual stories because empathy towards migrants then be higher

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The videos were very impressing. In my work I see the multitude of differences in migrants and their families daily. Some come for work, some to live with a family member, some flee the war. They are all different and you should never assume anything about anybody just because they are a migrant.

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I think the migrants are desperate but courageous people. In my locality, there are no migrants but they are in the big cities. Most of them are students at the university and they will remain here after they graduate.

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The three videos have impressed me so much. I believe that every person who does not accept migrants should see them. The latest video, in particular, illustrates some of the Italian situation: there is still much ignorance about the difference between a migrant and a refugee and in many cases, people will not accept it for one another. I believe that the school has an important role and we must crare teachers in students a culture of welcome and make the kids understand that they are people like us, with the same rights

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Migrants in my province ( 01/01/2016)
33.395  -  15,9%
15.556 men
17839 women.
Most of them are between 25 and 50 years old.
In my village:
Migrants 144, 5,3%

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In my city there is one of the hospitality centres of ARSIS, an NGO, for young people for Youth Support. Since September 2016 ARSIS operates a new Transitional hosting structure for unaccompanied minors in Alexandroupolis, for boys from 5-12 years and girls from 5 to 18 years. The hostel has a total capacity of 25 children. The children are given shelter, food and all the necessary: (clothing, footwear, hygiene, calling cards / phone cards, bus tickets etc.), while their medical needs are covered. Qualified staff provide psychosocial support, legal counseling and representation and pedagogical supervision. Children have the opportunity to attend school, participate in educational and creative activities inside and within the hostel and also to move to the center of my city to achieve their social inclusion. Young people who live in ARSIS are form Syria and Avganistan.

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Cinzia, Rome.   Newly arrived migrants to me are very courageous people who risk their life and leave their homecountry where their close family leaves in order to hope for a better life.  

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Cinzia, Rome.   Newly arrived migrants to me are very courageous people who risk their life and leave their homecountry where their close family leaves in order to hope for a better life.  

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Yusra's story is very inspiring. When it comes to migrants, people have very low expectations... Yusra's story proves that the sky is the limit

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The video stories are very impressive, this should make us think more all who experience a feeling of indifference to refugees and migrants, because in the same condition you might find a person close to them. Sensitivity and solidarity are the basis for a civil and dignified coexistence

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The story of Mildred is very touching. Migrants and refugees leave their countries full of hope for their future but often they have to face a sad and cruel reality. Fortunately, Italy is not all as she has seen it.

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1.3 Who are newly arrived migrants?
The great number of them are Syrian, but there are many other nationalities. The problem is the diversity and the need to equally share the number of these people in the whole Europe and not to cage them in some islands or hot spots with difficult living conditions.

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Who are newly arrived migrants?

As said above, we should not speak in general about migrants, but speak about the stories of every migrant. Infact each of them has its life, bilieves, tradition, religion, thoughts.
The "I am a migrant" project could help pupils to think in this way, also videos like the ones above could be useful.
In Italy the majority of migrants come from Africa though sea. But here we have many community of foreigners like rumanians and albanians.
Here are some information about asylum seekers for years 2015-2016 from the ministry of Internal Affairs http://www.libertaciviliimmigrazione.dlci.interno.gov.it/sites/default/files/allegati/riepilogo_dati_2015_2016_0.pdf
Here you can see the amount and distribution of foreigners in the various italian regions (from the national office for statistics)
http://www.istat.it/it/immigrati/mappe-dinamiche

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What escapes most of us that we welcome (willingly or not) immigrants is their enormous capacity for adaptation, self-sacrifice, endurance, and that now it would be worthwhile to welcome them: they are (especially for new generations, those wealthy to certain reasons and those not well off to others) a real lesson in life and humanity. Having a goal and in the name of the one to be willing to do anything even to risk his own life is a value in industrialized society is increasingly losing. We talk about globalization, but I think it is a concept that is convenient only when it triggers certain economic processes. Globalization, global world, are something more or better should be something more. A world without borders that can facilitate the flows for a GLOBAL WELLNESS, not just for few countries. A redistribution of opportunities and wealth.

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1.4 Who are newly arrived migrants ?
When people move, they generally look for something, that's for sure the case of migrants too. It doesn't matter if they are addressed to as: economic workers, asylum seekers, refugees, migrants...first of all we are talking about human beings, desperately seeking for someone or something that they really need. That's why in schools we should deepen the problems of welcoming people from abroad and learn how to build a better inclusive society. The basis of peaceful coexistence among peoples, are the fundamental laws of human life.

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What escapes most of us that we welcome (willingly or not) immigrants is their enormous capacity for adaptation, self-sacrifice, endurance, and that now it would be worthwhile to welcome them: they are (especially for new generations, those wealthy to certain reasons and those not well off to others) a real lesson in life and humanity. Having a goal and in the name of the one to be willing to do anything even to risk his own life is a value in industrialized society is increasingly losing. We talk about globalization, but I think it is a concept that is convenient only when it triggers certain economic processes. Globalization, global world, are something more or better should be something more. A world without borders that can facilitate the flows for a GLOBAL WELLNESS, not just for few countries. A redistribution of opportunities and wealth.

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When we say "newly arrived migrants" we say nothing. I mean, we cannot generalize. Migrants have different cultural backgrounds, various degrees of instruction, different ages, etc. In Italy for instance, we have migrants coming from many different countries as well as continents. In my school there are a lot of Chinese students (I teach near Prato which is well known for its Chinese community), but also African students and Middle-Eastern students.
Each migrant is unique as he/she brings with himself/herself unique cultural values, traditions, personal experiences. In this respect, I think the last video is really touching and best describes the situation of people who decide/have to move to other countries.

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Although the law is strict and in order to stay in Switzerland you need to find a job and get a residence permit, (according to a recent study by the Swiss state secretariat for migrants) there were 76.000 illegal immigrants living here in 2015. Most of them arrived undeclared or on tourist visas. In French and Italian speaking Switzerland the percentage rose to 78%. The large percentage came from latin America mainly for economic reasons. The vast majority are single and they live in large urban areas. Most of them intend to stay for more than ten years and they mainly work for private households. 51% are women and the majority are of working age. Many are well educated and 9 out of ten work.
http://www.ccsi.ch/
http://www.caritasge.ch

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I live and work in Piraeus, which is the port near Athens. A lot of refugees mainly from Syria are 'trapped' in the city/country, as european borders are closed for them. I cannot tell their exact number, because after a short period of stay in tents around the port piers, they have either left for other towns/villages or remain scattered in neighbourhoods around the port. In my area there are mostly economic migrants at the moment. We are mostly worried about the state of health of those who remain (the government says they have all been vaccinated and the education opportunities of young (often unaccompanied) children.

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I totally agree with Angeliki from Greece. Very eloquently put!

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Who are the newly arrived migrants?

The newly arrived migrants are a mix of religions, cultures and hopes. They have left everything behind to start a new life. They aren’t like the adventurers that many admire that have left their homeland behind for a new adventurous life somewhere exciting and new or job transfers to get ahead on the career ladder.

As explained at the beginning of this course we must make a difference between refugee and migrant. A refugee is leaving his or her home due to a catastrophe which is life threatening. They need protection. Many migrants leave for a more comfortable life or as in my case, for love.

More stories from school:

Boy from Iraq – He, 15, came with his brother (24) to escape being killed. They are Curds. Their parents paid 30,000€ per boy to have them transported under the floorboards of a truck from Iraq to Germany. They survived. Some died on the trip. Both boys are trying hard in School. They want to be doctors and go home when all is safe.

Boy from Egypt – His father died and his mother wanted to go somewhere where there were no memories of her dead husband. She works as a professor at the local university.

Afghan Boy from Iran – He was born in a refugee camp. As the camp ran out of food and Frau Merkel said that is everyone’s responsibility to care for those in need, the family left for Germany. The family wants the children to grow up in peace and democracy without rape, kidnapping and other crimes being everyday experiences. They have three girls and do not want to go back to neither Iran nor Afghanistan.

Some of the children without parents in Germany have been delegated to foster families through the social service office responsible for juvenile’s well-being.

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In Italy there are many many migrants and they have to be considered as a resources. Eachone has its own story, life. Listening to what they tell it's something that breaks your soul

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Here in Greece the newly arrived migrants come mainly from Syria. They are victims of the syrian war, they are refugees. They are asylum seekers. However, due to our lack of opportunities ,the majority of them do not want to stay here permanently. They desire to be promoted to other european countries such as Germany. Most of them are women and children. There are also a lot of unaccompanied children, specifically teenager boys, who need to be hosted by families according to the information of the organisation "METADRASI" I have already attended. In my area, Thessaloniki, there are approximately 2000 refugees, between them 700 children, who live in hot spots like "Diabata", "Kavalari" etc. However a lot of attempts are being done not only by the local council but also by organisations as "METADRASI" to find families to host unaccompanied children and people who want to rent their houses to refugee families.
http://metadrasi.org

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As to the results of my investigation, they show that my area, Almería, has become in the last decade one of the main areas in Spain for the settlement of foreign population, with a rate of 34’25% resident  inhabitants, from which there is a percentage of  49% population coming from non European Union countries.

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I think that Is very important know the life story of migrants and refugees, because they are persons not numbers

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In Turin, there are many migrants, fortunatly lot of them are integrated in the Community. This is the results of initiarives of the monucipality and of the Region too. They made activities like this:

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This is Rihana's testimony from Afghanistan --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-rFeEiQ8M   i found it in the Greek council for refuggees. The site of the organisation is here >http://www.gcr.gr/index.php/en/

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In Rome there is a huge problem with migrants arriving in the Capital mostly after their landing on the Southern coast of pur country. Near my house, at Tiburtina station, there is a large bus station with internationa lines. Many many migrants arrive there trying to catch a bus towards Germany, Austria or the Netherland. Waiting for their ride THOUSANDS of people in the last years were hosted by a volunteere  association called Baobab.  Sometimes I helped the staff in someway, as many of the citizens of the neighborhood. Unfortunately, the mayor doesn't help in any way the association and police forced them to close the house where asyluum seekers were hosted
Here the link at their website with numbers, activities and new initiatives they take to help migrants around the city

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Nel 2015, dal mese di maggio, noi, un gruppo di volontari, privati cittadini, ci siamo trovati a fronteggiare un'emergenza migratoria gestendo più di 35.000 migranti transitanti, all'interno del centro Baobab di via Cupa a Roma. Dopo il primo sgombero della struttura di via Cupa, avvenuta il 6 dicembre 2015, in assenza di una sede (di cui il Comune aveva promesso di occuparsene), continuiamo a dare una prima accoglienza in strada, supportati da associazioni mediche e legali e dalla rete costituita con attivisti dei diritti umanitari nazionali ed europei.

All'inizio del 2016, abbiamo deciso di costituirci in associazione, alla quale è stato dato il nome di "BAOBAB EXPERIENCE".

A oggi, più di 70.000 persone sono passate dai nostri campi, allestiti con mezzi donati dalla cittadinanza, ricevendo cure mediche, cibo, una sistemazione per la notte, assistenza legale. Sono donne, uomini e bambini in transito verso altri paesi europei o richiedenti asilo in Italia, che a Roma, dopo viaggi estenuanti in cui rischiano dalle torture alla morte, sono costretti ad aspettare circa un mese e mezzo in strada prima di poter accedere alle pratiche legali. L'esperienza del Baobab ha dimostrato che a Roma e nei suoi dintorni c'è una società civile cosciente e umana che alla necessità agisce per gli altri lì dove le istituzioni sembrano indifferenti.

BAOBAB EXPERIENCE, attraverso la rete di volontari e associazioni che la supportano, fornisce:

SOSTEGNO PSICOLOGICO

CURE SANITARIE

DISTRIBUZIONE PASTI

UN POSTO DOVE DORMIRE

CULTURA E SVAGO

Questa nostra forma di accoglienza ha suscitato l'interesse di tante realtà locali e internazionali, di artisti, personaggi pubblici e di privati cittadini.

BAOBAB EXPERIENCE è un fenomeno di civiltà in espansione: ogni cittadino può diventare volontario o supporter e iniziare a far parte di questa esperienza.
Come divento volontario di Baobab Experience? Supporta con una donazione, tesserandoti, sostenendo le nostre raccolte fondi Contatti e Referenti dei Gruppi
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Nel 2015, dal mese di maggio, noi, un gruppo di volontari, privati cittadini, ci siamo trovati a fronteggiare un'emergenza migratoria gestendo più di 35.000 migranti transitanti, all'interno del centro Baobab di via Cupa a Roma. Dopo il primo sgombero della struttura di via Cupa, avvenuta il 6 dicembre 2015, in assenza di una sede (di cui...

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Immigration phenomenon has always existed and the reasons are still the same: war, work, persecution. we, as human beings , should help first those escaping for war and cruelty in their own countries and after that, help the others to get a better life. we have to bear in mind that all the countries should help them and work together for a better result

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Newly arrived migrants here in Greece are mostly from Syria (also from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan). During the past two years, 1.3 million people fleeing conflict and persecution have traveled through Greece in search of safety and a better life in Europe. With the closure of the Balkan borders and the implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement in March 2016, refugees can no longer continue their journeys.  So, refugee population in Greece is more than 62,000 (over half of them women and children). I am not living somewhere with migrants so the above are from online research.

Refugee of Hope

A nation without a home, broken, standing before injustices;
Torture, hunger, cold, fear and despair.

To run or to fight.
They decided to leave to other countries,
far from a war that has taken away everything, even emotions.

But they left their homes to face another kind of war.
Yes, it’s the war of survival, war of struggle, a war of existence.

Khawadah,a Syrian refugee

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In our city there is a very active parish in welcoming migrants, especially women and children. there are many families who stop in the center of Don Giusto , waiting to be transported for northern Europe or to find a stable position. often a large number of people impossible to guarantee everyone a comfortable and decent accommodation. Many are children, often newborn and if a woman with a small child finds the courage to face such a journey, this happens because the living conditions in their home countries is unsustainable

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These videos are really interesting. Newly arrived migrants are workers who want to live in a safe place.

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Rossana, BR Italy  Really heartbreaking, there aren't words to describe what I feel about them.                I sent a message on Facebook to contact the local migrants organization and now I'm waiting for an answer.

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Rossana, BR Italy  Really heartbreaking, there aren't words to describe what I feel about them.                I sent a message on Facebook to contact the local migrants organization and now I'm waiting for an answer.

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Here in my town there are nearly 30 Afgan families apart from those from Syria.And my student has 4 siblings.

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WE ARE THE NEW MIGRATE OF THIS PERIODS BECAUSE FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTER EVERYBODY ONES IN HIS LIFE CHANGES HOUSE OR PLACE.

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nearly 15 years ago i have moved abroad for work ... i felt alone but strong and proud of myself.nothing like the stories I heard today... I feel fortunate ... and every time i teach english I try to teach respect for the differences, different cultures , different countries, different way to think... when i hear naughty comments about migrants i always ask ...would you risk your life, or worse your children life for a piece of bread? would you go opposite to a supermarket asking money?... I think that we are teacher and we are lucky because we can do something... at least making empathy in our pupils hearts...

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Being either a migrant or a refugee is painful, more painful with regard to refugees and less painful with regard to migrants.

In the region I work and I live there are no refugees, but there are economic migrants. These migrants have come in Greece for a better job and a better future.

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EVERYONE OF THE REFUGEES HAS AT LEAST ONE LIFE STORY FULL OF PAIN AND KILLINGS. IT IS VERY SAD AND MANY TIMES I AM VERY ANGRY WITH THE EUROPEAN GOVERMENTS AND THEIR POLICIES ABOUT THE REFUGES. THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING THEY HAVE FORGOT THE DRAMA WE HAD IN EUROPE IN SECOND WORLD WAR. ALL THE COUNTRIES AND UN SHOULD MAKE A CRUCIAL MOVE TO PUT AN END TO EVERY WAR AROUND THE WORLD. IT IS OUR DUE TO DO SO. THERE IS NO ISSUE FOR GAINNING PROFITS OF OIL OR MONEY FROM PEOPLE AND COUNTRIES THAT THEY HAVE WAR. IT'S A PITTY TO SEE HUMMANITY ACTING LIKE IT IS NOT OUR JOB TO END WARS THAT THEY ARE FAR AWAY FROM US. WHEN THE FIRE BEGINS AND YOU DON'T HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR YOUR HOME WILL BE BURNT TOO.

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Videos are very interesting and explain the situation. I work with students refugees, emigrants etc..and I can't understand every day that first they're person.

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First at all, as an Italian I feel very sorry and ashamed for the third video. I'm still looking for an association which specialises in taking care of refugees and asylum seekers (apart from this group, but it's a Government organisation:http://www.k-pax.eu/page.php?area=3&idp=16 , http://www.sprar.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/SPRAR-Numeri-SITO-2017-02.pdf or the Caritas ), but my area is seeked by migrants and new students come all during the school year, for different reasons and from a whole range of cultural and economic origin, even when they are from the same country... The last two, a Chinese and an Algerian, came around one month ago, one to reach his family, who have lived in Italy for eighteen years and left him with the grand parents because, working all day, they couldn't look after their son. He has already finished primary school in his country, but je can't speak Italian (for now); the other one, for work reasons, seems to have never attended school, having staying all his life at home with his mother, a woman with a low level, if any, level of education. As a great-grand daughter and grand-niece of immigrants, I deeply feel their hardship, and I often share with my students the stories of my great-grand-mother, whose father bought a huge plot of land in Brazil and then left because it wasn't as moneymaking as he had thought, or the cousin of my father, who had to fly Italy, during WW2, for political persecution, or the uncles of my mother, and even my grandfather, who worked in the mines near Charleroi, in Belgium. We don't really know if we're bound to become immigrants, in need of everything or, at least, of human recognition.

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Ida,Italy          working with children in primry school, I can observe that they easily work in group.

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Ida,Italy          working with children in primry school, I can observe that they easily work in group.

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Working in Primary school I can observe that migrants come from north Africa and east Europe.

I am very happy that parents enroll their children at school. This means that parents want integrate own family  in the new country.

It’s very important to make immediately an inclusive teaching, to help newly arrived migrants and to raise awareness and develop empathy for Italian students.

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Everyone of them has his personal life story...everyone of us reading his national history will find some of his ancestors in the same situation, sometime in the past. We are obliged to take care of them until the situation in their countries normalize and they will be able to return. Noone wants to leave his homeland with no reason and we have to think about the poor people, who have no money to leave and they are waiting for....

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These video are very touching! Being forced to leave your own country  must be terrible. Against they will leave it for wars, poverty, natural disasters, unemplyment, political reasons.. and look for safety, new opportunities, stability and freedom! If all the world were a safe and stable place, people would move just for pleasure!

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Am I the only one who cannot open the link to forum categories ?

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The videos are very touching . The reasons of leaving their country are various..... In my school the majority of new arrived people are worker  migrants .

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Looking at foreign students in my class, who have migrated from their country in Italy, I see frightened eyes and full of expectations.
Some close in a resigned silence, others try to make friends.

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If all the world were a safe and stable place people would move just for pleasure. instead Being forced to leave your own country  must be terrible. Against their will people leave for wars, poverty, natural disasters, unemplyment, political reasons.. and look for safety, new opportunities, stability and freedom!

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Being forced to leave your own country  must be terrible. Against their will people leave for wars, poverty, natural disasters, unemplyment, political reasons.. and look for safety, new opportunities, stability and freedom! If all the world were a safe and stable place people would move just for pleasure!

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Bασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece 

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Bασιλική Κρικώνη, Greece 

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By watching these videos, anyone can be touched. Each of these people, heve a special, a unique story. A story that hurts. They were forced in any way to leave their countries and their loved ones. Most of them had a good life back home. They can be active members of any society.

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I agree with the fact that these videos are really touching!
Noboby would like to lave his/her own home country especially if obliged to.
But everyone leaves with a hope …. with a dream and this is the good part!
When you teach and find out all this diversity , this is another good part!

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Migrants are people who leave their countries for a better life including here a better salary ,safety ,a better life for their children. We do not have newly arrived migrants in my country .

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Very interesting videos.... I think it's important in each project at school to focus on people different experiences, trying to create an emphatic relationship between the group and the singular migrant, telling about his/her own experience, his life, his feelings towards his background and life in a new country.

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Migrants choose to move not because of a direct threat of persecution or death, but mainly to improve their lives by finding work, or in some cases for education, family reunion, or other reasons. Refugees 

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Migrants choose to move not because of a direct threat of persecution or death, but mainly to improve their lives by finding work, or in some cases for education, family reunion, or other reasons. Refugees 

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are persons fleeing armed conflict or persecution. Their situation is often so intolerable that they cross national borders to seek safety in nearby countries, and thus become internationally recognised as 'refugees' with access to assistance from States, UNHCR, and other organisations

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In my diary you will soon find a lot of material about an outstanding story of tens of Chechens residing at the Brest railway station because of not being allowed to cross the Polis border in Terespol. It is an unbelievable story of Marina Hulia, a woman who decided to help the kids and mothers who escaped Chechnya because of persecution, war and violence. She founded two democratic schools which function at the railway station and are entirely dependant on the people's good will in Belarus and Poland.
Below the link to the fb of these "Brest railway station kids" The fb is in Polish but you can always use the translation device to get the idea.
https://www.facebook.com/Dzieci-z-Dworca-Brześć-307063089678726/ more details who they are visit my diary.
https://spark.adobe.com/page/TclNckR8NAJpl/

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Search and find a better life social economy. They want to fulfill their dreams.

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As a teacher I have the possibility to witness migration first hand, there are people coming from North Africa, mostly young men, who have fled their countries due to economical problems or social turmoil, they bear the signs of a difficult past, their faces tell a story that is written in their inner self. At school we welcome some North African young men who got shelter in the hands of a local humanitarian organization called 'Migrantes liberi', they are involved in a project to help keeping our green areas alive, they take care of plants, flowers and keep school meadows in perfect shape. I have often talked to them and the supervisors of the organisation and found out that they escaped a civil war or the blackest poverty in their countries and came here in the south of Italy on fishing boats at the port of Brindisi. They are quite young so they are not married yet, they are aged from 19 to 27 and are disposed to do any work in order to collect money to be sent to their family left behind. They are quite educated with certificates and degrees, they speak good English and their manners are gentle and polite. Lots of students have made friends with them and sometimes they join with them to help with the gardening tasks.

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According to Nora's words they are people who had the possibility to fly away. They payed €5000-10.000 to leave their countries, it's a shame!!! They are persecuted people, refugees, in search of a job or having a possibility to join the Olympic podium, it's Yusra's case. From Syria to the first refugees olympic team! Or Mildred, a journalist from Sierra Leone where there's a civil war. She lost a son and a Brother. Her video touched me a lot because she is alive, she found a shelter in Italy but she feels a great solitude, no family, no friends, it's hard!!!

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These videos touched me and reminded me of time when I was a refugee at the age of 11. Luckily, I was able to go back home, but a lot of people from my country weren't so lucky.

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After the visualization, which sensitized me a lot, I reflected and really it takes a lot of courage and willpower to leave their homes and start over in an unfamiliar place, always being so positive.
Great videos to show in the classroom and share ideas with students.
A good reason for debate and reflection.

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I found the videos in this section very interesting! I’ll surely use them with my students! I think it is very important, in order to develop their empathy, not to speak about migration just as an abstract and general phenomenon: to present them some individual stories can help to make them feel closer to migrants.