Refugees Aloud (2007)
Location: UK
Keywords: Refugee, Young People
Project Background
Funding Partner: The Children’s Society
Project Manager: April Coetzee
PhotoVoice Facilitator: Lucy Williams
Refugees Aloud is a new three-year initiative launched by The Children’s Society to help young refugees speak up and put across their own messages in the media.
Funded by the Big Lottery Fund, The Young Refugees’ Media Project offers communication and media training to young refugees and asylum seekers - between the age 13 and 21 - to encourage them to participate in the public debate about the issues that concern them.
In a climate where the mainstream media often fails to address these issues in a sympathetic, fair or even balanced way, it is increasingly important that the refugees themselves evolve the skills they need to negotiate with those who provide the services they need and the confidence to tell the public about their reality.
In January 2007 PhotoVoice ran two sets of 2-day photographic workshops for young refugees participating in the Refugees Aloud program. The 12 participants who attended the workshops were taught the basics of digital photography and given training in self-portraiture in order to help them present themselves to the public and the media as they see themselves, telling the story important to them.
For more information about The Children’s Society and Refugees Aloud visit www.childrenssociety.org.uk or contact the co-ordinator Gershon by email at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
or by phone on 07810 796 505.
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