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Meeting Point: Balkans Ireland
The Community “Meeting Point: Balkans-Ireland”
37 Ardfield Meadows,
Grange, Douglas,
Cork
e-mail: svetlanasava@yahoo.co.uk
Contact number: 085 105 00 24
“UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN NATIONS”
Terms and conditions for the participants:
1. Project Starts at December 1st and finishes at March1st.
( Duration: 3 months time)
2. Write a Story -no more than 250 words.
3. Make a Photo- no larger than 5x7size
4. You don’t have to be a member of the “Meeting Point: Balkans-Ireland” to participate, all welcome!
5. All materials have to be sent by e-mail to svetlanasava@yahoo.co.uk, or by post to 37 Ardfield Meadows, Grange, Douglas, Cork no later than 5.00pm on1st March 2009
6. If you would like to be interviewed, this can be arranged in Cork, Dublin or Limerick by phones: 0851050024
7. If you cannot take the photographs yourself our volunteers will do it for you in Cork, Dublin and Limerick. To arrange an Appointment call 0851050024.
“UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN NATIONS”
“Understanding between Nations” project aims to promote interaction and understanding between immigrants and the wider community.
We invite all of you to take part in this project.
You can do it in many ways:
1. Migrant life experience
Tell your own story in 150-200 words, enclose pictures size 13x18 (5x7) and you will be a part of this project as an adult with your own story of immigration.
Write it with humour; give advice of your positive experiences of integration in Irish society.
2. INTERNATIONAL FAMILY’S VIEWS
If you are from an international family or have friends, who are, you can write about your family or about your friends’ family.
Try to find the most interesting for all of us:
How this “small world” was formed?
How they manage to not see the differences, or if they differed sometimes because of these, what solutions did they find?
What is their advice for the people, who are doing in the same situation?
How has Irish society helped them to do this?
3. YANG MIGRANT’S HISTORIES
You can ask your children, teenagers and students to tell us their vision of social inclusion in Irish society. Again it has to be a story full of irony, humour, telling about difficulties at first and how they were overcome
Please include funny photos, jokes, and anecdotic situations from children’s lives.
Who helped them and how?
Are they happy with immigration?
What they miss from home?
What they would do first, if they were backing home?
4. STORIES FROM OLDER PERSONS PERSPECTIVES
It is very important to have in our book “life expertise stories. We owe our education, our intelligence our experiences and even our lives to our old people .
Stories, interviews and photos telling us about older people’s attitude to immigration and immigrants will be much appreciated.
They can tell us about their childhood stories. Especially if they experienced themselves or their relatives have experienced emigration from Ireland and nowadays have repatriated back home. They can tell you themselves or answering your prepared questions.
In all presented stories we will be looking for humour, ability to overcome difficulties in life as an immigrant, as a stranger or as host in Ireland with tolerance, positive thinking, perseverance and love of the people around you.
We are looking for what you find in common with your own culture and Irish culture, if you are not from Ireland
Tell us what you would recommend teaching Irish people or what you think Irish people can learn from your culture.
Send photos of your national costumes or send photos taken no later than last year in your own country If Enclosing an old photo, please send a clear one .Take photos at home ,in the workplace, place sof study,at the time of international events
with with different people or sporting events.
Write your stories in English,but if you aren’t comfortable withthis,you can also write in romanian,bulgarian,russian,
albanian and serbian. These stories will be published in their original form and will be translated by our voluntary translaters into English .
The above project will promote the integration of immigrants into Irish society by providing opportunities for both communities to work together to organise events,to meet each other and also opportunities to learn about one another’s cultures.
Our target is : greater understanding of cultural norms and traditions amongst different nationalities in local communities in Cork City.
Authors of the most interesting stories will be invited to participate at the launch of the book in Spring 2009.
Publication of your story and photographs will promote you
as a “writer” and photographer throughout the population
of Ireland.
We hope to print 500 examples!
This project will enhance understanding and dialogue and therefore assist integration,as people will have an increased pride of place, better understanding of one another and support equality of opportunity, in particular regarding accessing services and employment. It is important for us to work with all age groups.
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