This year all ASPACE users, families and professionals, are collaborating with a solidarity project promoted by Save the Children
Every year, on the occasion of Book Day and coinciding with Saint George's Day, Save the Children promotes a project in order to collaborate and raise awareness about the situation that many children and groups suffer around the world. The money collected in this initiative is used for specific projects related to children's rights and welfare. This year, they will help the children of the Rohingya ethnic group.
The Rohingya are an ethnic group based in the north of Myanmar -Old Burma-. As Myanmar is a country where the predominant religion is Buddhism, the Rohingya are a minority that professes Islam. They are Muslims and, for this reason, they are persecuted and expelled to refugee camps in the neighboring country, Bangladesh.
Currently, according to data from the same NGO, more than 622.000 Rohingya - 300.000 of them children - have fled Myanmar. The fact that the Burmese State does not recognize them as citizens, acting against them with violence, torture and rape, has led to an exodus that makes them cross the borders and reach the refugee camps of Cox Bazar.
They arrive at their destination empty-handed and their physical and mental health compromised. Dependent, mostly, on international and local solidarity.
What does the project consist of?
• The central element of the project are bookmarks that the students and users of the centers are decorating and will offer to readers in the family or in the environment.
• In return, these readers will contribute a small financial amount in solidarity, which will help Rohingya children.
• In addition, during the coming weeks both the students of the school, as well as the people from the different centers for occupational adults and the residence, will carry out activities where they will work on didactic and pedagogic solidarity objectives, such as:
- Raise awareness of the mobilizing capacity of childhood and adolescence to build a fairer world.
- Get to know other cultures and realities to learn to put yourself in the other person's shoes.
- Commemorate International Book Day together (professionals, students and families).
We will inform you about the activities worked on.
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