The children who live in the Elaionas refugee camp play and discuss with the Group Samatasavvata how they see life in the camp and what they would change in Elaionas and the world. The footage was taken in June 2020, before the camp was completely isolated due to quarantine. […]
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Every school context is unique and every educational effort has as its starting point a full understanding of it. Nothing can be done without taking into account the needs of children, the way they perceive reality, the questions they have, the obstacles they encounter in understanding. In order to succeed in mobilising the learning processes, […]
Video of the celebration organized on Sunday 20 May at the Open Refugee Accommodation Facility of Elaionas, with the main slogan ‘We meet – We celebrate together in Elaionas’. Hundreds of Greek, refugee and immigrant children, parents and teachers from 15 schools in Athens took part in the celebration. […]
This paper explores how versions of one role, the child-student, are represented in contemporary Greek cinema. It analyses the films The Fisherman by Dimitris Spyrou, The Canary Bike by Dimitris Stavrakas, and The Light That Goes Out by Vassilis Douros. The common thread in all three films is the representation of the child-student as “other”. […]
Unfairy Tales, three short animations –true stories of the flight of children from conflict– explain the horror behind why they fled. One story – “Ivine and the Pillow” – animates the true story of 14-year-old Ivine and her pillow. After a perilous escape from Syria, Ivine settles at a refugee camp in Germany only to […]
Deborah Ellis turns her attention to the most tragic victims of the Iraq war: Iraqi children. She interviews young people, mostly refugees living in Jordan, but also a few who are trying to build new lives in North America. Some families left Iraq with money; others are penniless and ill or disabled. Most of the […]