Quarantine monologues: young refugees write Covid-19 pandemic

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UNHCR Joint Press / Greek Theatre-Drama

Lock flashes

Money is so important.

The Earth doesn’t belong to me, I’m just a guest.

I realize the school.

After all, I like to spend time with my family circle.

There’s no difference between the poor

and the rich a pandemic.

I love my poems

Ikram, 15

 

UNHCR, the United Nations Refugee Agency in Greece, in partnership with The Hellenic Theatre / Drama

The publication is the result of a series of online artistic writing workshops coordinated through 3 authors with the participation of 24 children, aged between thirteen and 19, adolescents from Afghanistan, Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia and Syria. , live in shelters throughout Greece, with their families or uncompanied.

Young children and women who participated in the assignment write about their reports during the confinement and effect of the pandemic on their daily expectations, aspirations, and struggles. Some of the teenagers who participated in this assignment live in shelters, where measures restrict the movement of their citizens are still in position for reasons similar to Covid-19.

The “Quarantine Monologues” action implemented as a component of the educational program “Maybe it’s just me, maybe it’s just you,” implemented through the Greek Theatre/Drama

The publication “Quarantine Monologues” will be published in Greek and English.

 

Collaborating partners in the “Quarantine Monologues”:

ANKA – Agencia de Desarrollo de Karditsa S. A. , ARSIS – Asociación de Apoyo Social Juvenil, Koinoniko EKAV, Iliaktida AMKE, International Organization for Migration, PRAKSIS, Sociedad de Desarrollo Regional de Parnonas S. A. – Tripoli, Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa.

 

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