Everybody Welcome

Developing educational activities about

migration, islamophobia and anti-
discrimination

AGUIDE TO THE ERASMUS+ TRAINING COURSE

January 9-18 2017 I Kaprlv Mln I Czech Republic
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Everybody Welcome to the booklet of the
international training course supported by the
ERASMUS+ Programme, which took place in
Kaprlv Mln, near to city of Brno, Czech participants of the project and also to provide
Republic from 9th to 18th January 2017.
During this training course, organised by a non-
governmental youth organisation Be
International, we invited 24 youth workers and
youth leaders to discuss the ways in which the
current issues connected to migration, so
called refugee crisis and raise of islamophobia,
can be addressed through various educational
activities.
The training course was implemented in
cooperation with the partner organisations
from 5 countries: Slovakia (Clovek v ohrozeni),
Poland (Instytut Wschodnich Inicjatyw),
Hungary (Lehet Mas a Jovo), Denmark (Dansk
ICYE) and France (InformART).
The project happened with a support of:
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The main aim of this booklet is to summarise
the main outcomes of the training course,
introduce the discussions we lead with the
tips and resources for developing further
knowledge about migration, basic
terminology connected to this phenomenon,
that we believe that every educator needs to
understand before entering the classroom or
conducting a workshop. We also want to
share some basic principles for developing
and implementing non-formal educational
activities combatting islamophobia and
advocating for pro-diversity, pro-tolerance
approach in education.
At the end, we are offering few examples of
the educational activities that the
participants of the course developed and
play-tested during the training course, which
target mainly young people in our countries.
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 STORY OF THE PROJECT
The idea of the training course Everybody
Welcome was inspired by our experience in
conducting local and international educational
activities on the topics of Hate Speech, Human
Rights Education, Intercultural Learning and
activities combatting discrimination and
intolerance.
At the same time, Be International has been
developing cultural, educational and
community building activities with the Syrian
community in Brno called SyreCzech and faced
variety of reactions to our effort to take young
people beyond the borders of formal
educational systems and give them a chance to
learn from and with their peers from different
countries, cultures or social backgrounds.
We felt the need to address some of the recent
and important challenges Europe is facing and
bring the discussion on how the youth workers
and educators could address them:
People are fleeing their homes, trying to
escape wars and poverty. At the same time,
nationalism and walls are rising in Europe.
These challenges affect our youth work and
pop-up in classrooms, during workshops, in
free-time activities.
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How can youth workers react to these issues?
How to discuss the topic connected to
migration, refugees, islam? How to deal with
fear, frustration but also curiosity and how to
address many questions about these topics?
Together with our participants, we tried to seek
some answers and perhaps learn some tips
which might help us and also our colleagues in
schools, youth centres and NGOs.
Everybody Welcome set following objectives:
- To give space to the youth leaders and youth
workers who are conscious of new challenges
connected to migration and islam to reflect on
their experience, react and give value to their
role as pro-diversity educators.
- To use non-violent communication
techniques, apply critical thinking and media
literacy in youth work.
- To collect activities of best practice and meet
experienced educators.
- To discuss migration and islam with experts
- To encourage participants to develop their
own pro-diversity activities
- To support participants in conducting their
own pro-diversity activities in local
communities.
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EVERYBODY WELCOME: PROGRAM OF THE TRAINING COURSE

Arrival of the Getting to know Sharing & analysing

participants each other good practices of
Background and the Setting learning working with youth,
story of the project objectives refugees, migrants
Ice breaking Team building & Talking about

11 NAJ / YADSENDEW
Getting to know the Trust building migration - Who

01 NAJ / YADSEUT
venue 9 NAJ / YADNOM Personal mind map wants to be a
Community circle millionaire?
Intercultural
learning evening

Talking about Analysing country Non-violent

migration - reality II communication
analysing country Media literacy training
reality workshop - dealing Meeting SyreCzech
Discussion in the with fake news Quizz evening
mosque Study Case -
21 NAJ / YADSRUHT

41 NAJ / YADRUTAS
Free time - Islamophobia
31 NAJ / YADIRF

exploring Brno activity

Open Space

Discussing roles in Play-testing the Working on a

public space activities & booklet
Developing Feedback Developing future
educational projects' ideas
activities - logic YouthPass
71 NAJ / YADSEUT

Group work - Evaluation

61 NAJ / YADNOM
51 NAJ / YADNUS

working on Closing
educational
activities
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DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY:

Topics: Hate Speech; Prejudices; Xenophobia; Non-violent communication

Target group: Young people 15-20 years old

Aim: Practice and learn how to face a hateful situations in the everyday life.

Objectives:
- To get students familiar about methods of nonviolent communication;
- To know how to behave in such a situation in real life;
- To raise an awareness on topics of xenophobia, prejudices

Materials: Appropriate clothes for the main characters, musical instrument, coin, blanket,
distinctive objects to recognise changeable roles (Hater, Victim, Bystander, Active witness,
Ally), for example mobile phone, scarf etc.

Methods: performance, role play, open theatre, improvisation

Idea: To create a situation which may occur in daily life. The task is to come up with different
possible solutions, and become aware of different action/reaction situations, following rules
mentioned below.
In the activity the participants role play situation in whichat the beginningthe
maincharacters and their positionsarebe presented on the stage. Afterwards, the audience is
encouraged toenterthe stage and exchange some of the characters, in order to solve
situation.

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FLOW OF THE ACTIVITY:

Basic rules:
- 15 min. to solve situation
- Clap your hands in order to enter into role play.
- You should stay on the stage and play the role until someone else would like to enter and
change your place
- Facilitator is needed
- Only two characters might be changed: Stranger and Colleague, Hater and Victim are
unchangeable
- One role might be changed at the same time ( for ex. Stranger or Colleague)

Plot ( to give an idea- characters and situation might be changed):

Four main characters- Hater, Victim, Stranger, Colleague
Facilitator
Characteristics of main actors:
Victim-middle age person recently lost his job, sitting on the floor playing on the guitar and
asking for money. Hater -middle age women, exhausted after long working day, a lot of
personal problems. Colleague young women, conformist. Stranger- student sitting on the
bench.
Hater and Colleague are coming back from the job, at the same time victim is playing on the
guitar. Hater is starting to complain about refugees, rappers and homelessness surrounded by
her and wanted the Victim to leave her country. Colleague is mainly agreeing with everything
and ended up by talking with someone by mobile phone. This time Hater is starting to kick
Victim and is interrupted by Stranger whose aim is to help to solve the situation. He is trying
hard but is powerless with arguing with Hater.

The role of the public is to enter and solve the situation by using nonviolent
communication techniques and other ways in order to avoid direct conflict and violence.

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DEBRIEFING & EVALUATION

Questions to pose during debriefing:
- How did you feel during playing the roles?
- How was it being under time pressure?
- Have your expectations about detouring of role play met the reality?
- Was the problem solved? If yes- what was the solution; how was it made? If no-why?- - ---
How should people act in this kind of situation in the real life?
- Have you experienced Hate speech before? How did you act?

Tips for the future reflecting ideas how to behave, act and protect during HATE SPEECH
situation.

Evaluation
Each part of NAOMIE project method should be revised. Objectives should be reached.

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 Islamophobia Quizz

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Topics : Basics of Islam, women and Islam, Islam and politics, Media and Islam, Refugees and
Islam.

Target group: Young people and high schools students

Objectives:
- To increase knowledge of young people about Islam;
- To encourage critical thinking and to open a discussion about the topics;

Materials: Laptop , Projector , chairs , papers and pens, Flipcharts , optional ( Islamic clothes
+ Quran)
Instructions :

FLOW OF THE ACTIVITY

Create the questions for the topics related to Islam/Refugees/Migration, for example : 5
questions for each topic or less. And prepare the answers. Have some extra info and
comments, examples, pictures, maps, videos and music . All this in form of power point
presentation.
Specify time limit for each section and each question
Divide the participants into smaller teams, for example : 25 people = 5 teams of 5 people
Specify the roles of the team members (one person is introducing and leading the whole
activity, one is helping the main lecturer, one for the laptop to change the slide show, one is
the time keeper.
Prepare the atmosphere for the start, for example: music (call of the pray in the beginning ,
pictures, make the people wear the costumes, etc )
Prepare the room, put the chairs together for the teams, and prepare the presentation ( set up
and test the laptop and the projector, sounds)
Rehearse the quiz with the team.

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 Islamophobia Quizz

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Rehearse the quiz with the team.
Invite the participants, you can choose the teams, or let them create the teams (make sure the
teams are as diverse as possible - People from different countries, backgrounds and Culture
are split equally.
You can start the activity be welcoming the people and introducing the activity and explain
the objectives and the process and the rules and the timing.
Depending on the Total length of the activity you can have one break in the middle.
Show the answers after each question and make some comments and leave space for
question (because the idea is to transfer as much info as possible and not only about
competition and having fun)
Time keeper should always check the timing , because sometimes there are a lot of
comments.

DEBRIEFING & EVALUATION

Make a discussion, for example ask the people if they have further questions.
In the end do the debriefing ( what have you learned, are there any thing unclear , any
comments, surprises, any extra sources of information from the people, personal
experiences, etc )

Evaluation : feedback to the activity ( questionnaire, or any other form of evaluation depends
on the target group , kids or adults ), any suggestion for the future

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 At the border

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Topic: Mixed migration: economics migrants, asylum seekers, unaccompanied minor

Aim: To show different group of people who migrate and enhance empathy from the
participants.

Objectives:
- To experience the journey of migrants. Theirs fear and problems.
- To experience roles of different actors involving in migration.

Methods: Story telling, role play

Preparation of the cards with the different roles (asylum seekers, economics migrants,
volunteer, border guards etc.)

Materials: Cards with the characters

Blankets, pillows, bandage, plasters (basic hygienist item) (for nurse/doctors)
Waters, food etc. (volunteers)
Item to build the border (depends of the place)

FLOW OF THE ACTIVITY

Implementation:
- The facilitator explains the rules and describe situation that is going to happen during the
game. Therefore, it is essential to inform participants that they could resign during the game.
- The participants are receiving the cards with different characters that they are going to be
during the game.

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 At the border

Facilitator tell the story, describe area and situation that migrants are in. Give the more
details about the game as possible
4. Participants has 10 minutes to prepare to the role and then 15 minutes to play. During the
game, facilitator must observe the role play and the game should be stope in any time when it
begins to be violence (or any other reason).
At the end of the play, facilitator must do some activates to calm down the participants and
back to their own personality.

DEBRIEFING & EVALUATION

The question to be asked :
- How did you feel during the role play?
-Did you have any difficulties about the roles?
- What have you learned?

Evaluation
- Ask for feedback from participants.
- Ask what did they like about the game.
- Ask for what they would change in the game.

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 World Kitchen

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTIVITY

Topic: Integration, community building, migration, intercultural learning, breaking
stereotypes & prejudices about different people and cultures.

Target group: local and new comers (immigrants and refugees), suitable for all age groups,
for 15-50 people.

Objectives: The aim of the activity is to have solidare, friendly, welcoming and understanding
community when locals and migrants can meet together in a friendly atmosphere and to learn
from each other.

MATERIALS:
-Main cooking event: dedicated space, kitchen, food, cooking instruments, recipes, volunteer
helpers, place to eat.
- Team building activities: know your cities: projector, 2 blind maps next to each other on a
computer to be projected, 2 blind folders, little stickers, board to count the score.
- Activities: little papers, pen, hat, board to keep score and to draw (flipchart, white board or
black board)

INSTRUCTIONS (STEP BY STEP):

Preparation: encourage several people from both migrant and local community if they want
to share their favourite recipes. These people will become the volunteer-chefs during your
event and they will lead the cooking session.
Promotion: in order to invite as many people as possible think about the ways to approach
both communities in your cities (both locals and migrants) you might use different
strategies to target different groups. These are some tips how to ensure high attendance:
social media events, word of mouth, flyers in cafs, invitation of friends, etc.

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 World Kitchen

Firstly you can start to invite young and open-minded people in universities, schools or
associations involved in this kind of topic and target the harder groups afterwards. This event
is one in the series of activities aimed on community building; it is aimed to be repeated
regularly.

Preparation for the event:Schedule the event, you might also think about decorating the
place. Find below an outline of activities how we imagined it, but the activities can be
changed according to the peoples preferences and interests. Prepare tea corner for people
who want to refresh themselves during the event and chat.

Flow of the event:

- Welcome & introduction: welcome everybody and outline the program for the evening.
Keep in mind that some people are arriving late.
- Icebreaking & name game: ask people to stand in circle and play the game to help people
to remember others names. Each person says their name, where are they from and optionally
what they enjoy doing. The next person will repeat all the information about the person that
introduced themselves before in the same order as they are standing in the circle and
introduces him/herself in the same manner. The game ends when everybody introduces
themselves.
- Find the city: divide people into two groups and make sure that in each group there are
both locals and migrants. The facilitator introduces the rules of the game. One person from
each group is standing blindfolded in front of the group with a little sticker in their hand that
needs to be put on the map in the right place. The rest of the group navigates them. The
facilitator does not say the name of the city, but gives some clues about the city (historical,
geographical, fun facts; e.g. city where the first snow globe was invented, city of delicious
desserts, lays on the Danube river, etc.). The cities should be connected to the nationality of
all the people participating in the event. Once the stickers are placed, reveal the correct place
of the city using the power point created in advance. Use a ruler to measure the distance
between the sticker and the right placement of the city and count the points. You can play the
game for 5-10 cities.
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Cooking:After a short break in the tea corner, ask the volunteer community chefs to stand at
their cooking space with the ingredients already prepared on the table for the particular
recipes they want to share with the others. It is good to have around 5 people per recipe + the
community chef. Ask people to join the chefs/recipes they would like to learn. Think about
volunteer-translators who are fluent in both migrant and local language and can help with the
translations and facilitate the discussions. Have the recipes prepared for the participants to
take home (you might even consider to make a little booklet full of recipes).

Charades: while the food is ready to go in the oven and the meals are being cooked, divide
the whole group into two for the charades. In advance prepare little papers with
words/expressions in three categories: talking, drawing and pantomime. It is important to
have the words/expressions in the language all the participants understand; you might
consider asking volunteer translators to help. Put all the papers in the hat and ask one
performer from each group to join you. They will draw one paper from the hat and both
groups are trying to guess the word on the paper. The performer is using drawing (no
letters, no numbers, no talking, no pointing), talking (cannot use the root of the word and
cannot spell the word), or pantomime (cannot speak or point) to describe the
word/expression. First team to guess obtains the points. You can consider to have one judge
per group to evaluate the results, as it can get little loud and messy. You can play the game
until the food is ready.

DEBRIEFING & EVALUATION

it is good to establish personal connection with all the participants during the event, to chat a
little bit, ask how it is going for them, and try to invite them for following events. You might
also consider leaving a contact form for the participant to leave their contact info (telephone,
email or fb). If people are coming to your next events or are meeting outside of your
community-building events, you might consider your community building as a success.

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