Objectives
To showcase the reality that 85% of refugees are hosted in developing countries. This will brought to life by projecting the reality of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. (focusing on the difficult socio-economic conditions both of the individual and the nation, and the narrowing path when welcoming people in exile).
Outcome
Students will act as decision makers and affected populations and global citizens to raise their awareness of global “responsibility sharing”
Moment #1 (7 min)
- Name game – five Lebanese family names (Zaitir, Khashann, Jamal, Jawdeh, Harfoush)
- Break them into groups – 5 min
- Place the circle and papers on the floor.
Moment #2 (7 min)
- “Close your eyes – imagine yourself in your safe space, in your house with your family.
- Open your eyes, and as a family go and choose 10 of your most important items and return to your house. 3mins
- People! war has started in your country “Now each family has one minute to choose 2 items and move to country X” “Put on the WWII sounds”
Moment #3 (10 min)
- So… you… refugees… you need a safe space?Welcome welcome to country x, we will keep you save, come on in, come on in. Gather into the centre roped circle. 2 mins
- Akram says
- YOU SHOULD KNOW (says the president of country X) that…(AKRAM shouting, Maddi cutting)
- IN THIS COUNTRY, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK
- AND REMEMBER THAT HOSPITALS ARE NOT FOR FREE
- OH AND YOUR CHILDREN, CANNOT TO SCHOOL
- YOUR PASSPORT? That’s no use here
- Your currency? That has no value here.
5 mins
- Keep them in the tight circle for 2 mins.
Moment #4 (15 min)
- So you can relax now and go back to your homes with your families.
- Now let’s have a couple of minutes to discuss why we did this activity? The point of this exercise was to demonstrate that although many refugees are physically safe from the war, they often live in very very harsh conditions, which can be devastating. 5 min
- INFOGRAPHIC: 85% of refugees life in developing countries, where conditions even for the locals are challenging. – talk this through 3 mins. Most if not all refugees are living in such harsh and cruel conditions, so we’re going to play a small video to give you an idea.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Ae4teetaI#action=share
Moment #5 (11 min)
Depending on time we do this by family or in plenary.
3 minutes
- What happened?
- Is this related to real life?
- If you had the power to change this, what would you do?
Resources
- Paper A4 (30)
- Paper tape
- Markerss (5\colors)
- Computer/ projector / speakers
- Rope
- Sticky notes
- scissors(1)
- Internet (Preferably)
