Well into summer and in the middle of a heatwave, the team of Young Journalists has been preparing the summer issue of “Migratory Birds”. The newspaper that was born inside the refugee camps remains true to its cause; to give voice to teenagers, refugees, migrants, as well as Greeks. All together, we co-create the bimonthly issue that you are now holding.
In the 14th issue of our newspaper we identify those “invisible borders” that make us appear different and tend to separate us from the local community. In an attempt to break them down, but without forgetting our cultural identity or our mother tongue, we seek places in Athens where different cultures meet and interact.
We go to the theatre to see the plays put on by the teenage theatre group of Network for Children’s Rights and the theatre group of the French collective Je Pars À Zart, made up of actors of our own age, and we change our minds about what theatre means. We meet the first female football team of refugees and migrants, Hestia FC, we watch them train and we see how one ball can unite women from all around the world. We visit the Migrant Integration Center of the City of Athens and we interview the Vice Mayor for Migrant and Refugee Affairs, responsible for the Center’s operation. We discover the Communitism building in Metaxourgio and chat to the artists who use it as a space for interaction and collective expression. We dance to the rhythm of the music of the student bands at the Schoolwave festival and we go skateboarding with the team Free Movement Skateboarding team, along with children from all over the world, who teach us that no matter how many times you fall, the important thing is to get back up.
We wander around the city we live in to find places where people from different backgrounds coexist, like we do in our team.
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