11th October 2016
Involved classes: 3I, 3H
Erasmus+ YES+ activity: The Project is Introduced to 3I and 3H
The students from 3H and 3I enter the Twinspace platform for the first time and the Erasmus+ Y-.E.S.+ project, its final aims, the activities and their time organization are explained by teachers Balloni and Rigamonti to the students: the students have to upload their profiles and their pictures onto the platform.
17th October 2016
Involved classes: 3I, 3H from 13.05 to 14.05
Erasmus+ Y.E.S.+ activity: Creation of the Project Logo
The students are shown the slide show created by teacher Spreggiaro from the school Graphic Course, translated by teacher Balloni and approved by the other partners during the 1st Trasnational Meeting in The Czech Republic. This slide show explains how to create an effective logo.
This is the task the students have to perform. They can work alone or in pair or group and create a logo representative of the project aims. The same activities will be carried out by the students of the other partner schools; then, there will be a competition among the produced logos to choose the best one
The activities are carried out with the help of the teachers Rigamonti and Balloni
A logo is created
8th November 2016
Involved classes 3H 3I
Erasmus+ YES+ activity: evaluation of our logos
The students evaluate all the Italian logos.
The objectives of this activity are:
- to verify if the logos are effective from a communicative point of view, and their respect of the project final aims.
- to identify the logos’ strengths and their feasibility
- to verify the respect of copyright
The students choose some logos and the changes that must be done, then decide which logos could be sent to the Twinspace competition for the best one.
The teachers who follow the activity are: Balloni, Rigamonti and the expert teacher Eugenio Spreggiaro.
17th December 2016
Erasmus+ Y.E.S.+ activity: Project's logos created by the Italian Students
classe 3°H
classe 3°I
December January February 2016/ 2017 (Mobility in Spain: dissemination)
The students from 3H and 3I work disseminating what they did during the 1st moblility meeting in Spain. The students involved in the mobility explain and repeat the activities they were involved in. They related on the activities with the psychologist, the multilingual dictionary, their family maps, the IBM programme ( we used a free demo programme) and all students complete the above mentioned tasks.
Song writing / short shory writing activities (December January February 2016/ 2017)
After the Spanish mobility, and before the 2nd Mobility in Sweden, the students interview immigrants and write about them...
Some students prefere writing and creating songs, others prefer writing short stories.
In the following pictures, we have some students involved in the song writing and its music
Official data from our Municipality February 2017
In February, a delegation of our students were invited by our Municipality and were given official data related to immigration in our territory.
These pieces of information are very important because our students can have a relly updated, first hand vision of what's happening in our Municipality. These data will enable Erasmus + students to understand what immigration is like in our territory and what is done to help these people to integrate too. During the 2nd mobility in Sweden, students 'll have to compare the Italian immigration data to those of the other countries involved in the project and what the Municipality has given to us, will be extremelly helpful.
During the visit, the students had the opportunity to witness an official cerimony, when two foreign people were given the Italian citizeship.
Here there are some pictures of the event.
As soon as we received the official data, we started working on them... going further with our researches in order to arrive well informed at the 2nd Mobility Meeting in Sweden and in order to be able to explain the Italian situation to our friends from Sweden, The Czech Republic and Spain.
The aim is to compare data, attitudes and solutions to the waves of immigration to Europe and make up our minds about what we could do to help and include these refugees.
This is the product that recaps all our researches and work.
OUR STORIES AND MICROTALES from April 2017
We went on with our stories and microtales too. Stories of immigration from immigrants we know or we met and inteviewed. We tried to give voice to their experiences, feellings and emotions. The microtales are meaningful sentences taken from these stories, they are ment to be written on bookmarks ( one of the final products of this project). Our 10 most representative stories ( we, students chose them) are uploaded onto the page STORY BOOKS (Italy) within a virtual book. Anyway, the other 22 stories are uploaded in the same section too in another virtual book.
Our stories have no ti tles, just the names of their main characters. This characters told us where they are from and what happened to them …Reading the first virtual book you can meet Atai, Alexander, Margaret, Jasmine, Gladys, Ahmad, Rabeea, Yusra, Malia and an immigrant without name as she did not want to reveal it …
Reading the second virtual book, you can meet Abdul, Abdanke, Ahbdul, Alaya, Beatriz, Diallo, Dimitri, Faras, Hicham, Jamal, Jamila, Karim, Larissa, Leila, Leyla, Nabil, Oliver, Sarah, Karim 2, Yadira, Yasmine, Youssouf.
All the microtales will be involved in a competition ( 3 from each country)
We chose our 3 representative microtales , but here you can find them all:
"Abdul is a seventeen-year-old guy from Sudan who ran away after his father was shot dead to find a better life in Italy, leaving her mother alone." ( by Morici and Borgognone)
"Adebanke had parents and two younger sisters in Somalia and his constant thought was to help them. His countryman worked in a cleaning company and his employer, thanks to Adebanke’s commitment and seriousness, wanted to trust him and he hired him." (by Simone Prato)
“ He arrived in Rome and the first year in Italy wasn’t simple at all, because of the people’s indifference and mistrust. Most of the time Ahmad was ill at ease and he felt alone.It was in that times that Ahmad never gave up and never lost hope, he was right where he had always dreamt of “. (by Sofia Buso and Usfar Afzal)
"This is the story of a little Tunisian girl called Alaya, who migrated from Tunisia to Italy with her father, looking forward to starting a new life there." (by Fiona Fraholli)
“Alexander couldn't take it anymore: he had to do something to stop his father. And since his mother didn't have enough energy to react, he had to be strong for both.” (by Davide Strada and Greta de Fino)
"Atai had to grow quickly, too quickly. Holding his little brother tight, he avoided to watch his disfigured parents and tried to look for a better future, but this dream faded in the depth of the Aegean Sea." (by Luana Trapasso and Lucrezia Rastellino)
"Beatriz is only 17 when she becomes mom, 18 when she arrives in Milan. She faces a long tough path, but with the help of someone very special... read to find out!" (by Diana Catalano)
"Diallo, now, is a 50 year-old man. He left his home country, Africa, to have a better life. Before leaving Africa, he studied there and he graduated in engineering. When he got enough money, he left his country to travel towards Europe. He changed different jobs and countries and, at the end, he settled in italy, where he found a definitive job and a beautiful family." (by Bianca Cupri and Martina Marzorati)
"Dimitri, a 17 year-old-boy from Albania moved to Germany and then to Italy because his parents were looking for a job."
( by Giulia Paolicelli and Alessia Seveso )
"Faras, a 12-year-old Egyptian boy, with a Muslim father and a Christian mother, arrived in Milan, two years ago because of religion persecutions. (by Cuozzo and Eleonora Lacci)"
"Gladys decided to take a change. She decided to go to an unknown country to have a better life and to give a better future to her daughters and her husband." ( by Tatiana Saletti and Camila Medina)
"Hicham has decided to embark on a new life away from home, but he does not know what is waiting for him. Anyway, his destiny will lead him to the best life he deserves." (by Avallone Critelli)
"The days on the boat seemed endless, someone was screaming, someone was crying, someone was hugging the others trying to not to feel the cold..." (by Fabio Gallo e Cristian Giacon)
"Jamila did not have an easy life: her mother’s death, her stepmother’s neglect, and her escape were just steps of her still short life. Anyway, she was just looking for a safe place… nothing more than a safe place where she could fit in with the other people." (by Giorgia Frisenna and Sofia Lauriola)
"Jasmine needs a safe place to hide her baby from the war. The boat directed to Italy is their only possibility to escape, but there is no place for both and Jasmine wants to save her daughter’s life... but the destiny will not separate them forever. " ( by Figini Giorgio and Parente Alessia)
"Karim, the sixteen-year-old guy who risked it all just for a better life. This is his story that tells how he arrived in Lampedusa from Tunisia, he was frightened, cold almost dead, but just a little hot milk was enough to make him live again ." (by Gaia Pardo and Giulia Giustra)
"This is the story of Larisa, a Moldavian girl who decided to come to Italy, looking for a better future for her and her family.
Larisa was a very courageous girl and she wanted to live in Italy and even though her family were afraid, they let her go, so one day of May, she left her country." (by Rizzi and Patruno )
"My name is Leila and I came from Bangladesh. I was five years old when my father and I moved to Italy.
There I had a lot of difficulties. However, I easily succeeded in my school things."" (by Letizia Casatta and Aiah Nassar)
"I am Leyla. I moved from China to Italy 1 year ago but I do not feel at home. Anyway, today I met a boy and thanks to him, I realized we should not be ashamed of ourselves as we are unique." (by Gaia Polidori )
"I am Malia, I am 17 and my country of origin is Marocco. My family decided to move to MIlan when I was nine. The first years were difficult for us. I felt alone, but there were not many possibilities where we lived before." ( by Greta Spera)
"Margaret is a 23-year-old Egyptian girl who, after being hit by the man she thought she loved, escapes to reach Italy looking for a place to hide from her cruel husband, but she eventually finds the love of her life." (by Beatrice Alparone
and Morgana Venturetti)
"He was born on 26th July 1998 in Casablanca. At the age of seven, he found out that he preferred boy to girls… Morocco is against homosexuality so his father sent him to Milan (Italy). In spite of this, he was a great footballer." (by Marco Boisio and Alessio Seregni)
''Oliver is a boy from Niger. He has to leave his country because of a war he knows nothing about. He wants to find a safer place...'' ( by Caterina Arrigoni)
"This is the story of Sarah, who left Algeria to move to Paris, as she was not satisfied with her life. She had a difficult period; anyway, she managed to find what she was looking for." (by Sara di Biase and Chiara Peraro)
"...I asked him why not legal immigration ? He told me "Illegal immigration is materially expensive, but legal procedures are complex, and obtaining a visa to one of the European countries for those in my situation is impossible". (by Tarik Ouguelli)
"She was escaping from war because her brothers wanted to save her. She had kissed her brothers goodbye and she had tried to convince herself that a brand new life was waiting for her, but not the one she expected. No one cared about her: she was the unnamed girl." (by Michela Sponchiado)
"Yasmine was the only daughter of the king of Egypt. When she turned 15t, because of the war, the king sent her to Sicily to begin a new life." ( by Maria Stefanuto)
"Youssouf is 29 years old and he is a refugee from Senegal. He managed to survive a long exhausting journey through different countries and after two years, he could reach Italy" (by Gianluca Banfi)
"The war bombed not only countries and houses, but also Yusra's dream…
Anyway, she did not give up… She reached the Turkish shores; a boat was waiting for her and other people. They set off, but thirty minutes later, the engine of the boat stopped working and water began to leak in… She thought it would have been a real shame if she had drowned, because she was a swimmer." (by Alessia Furlan)
«The days on the boat seemed endless, someone was screaming, someone was crying, someone was hugging the others trying to not to feel the cold...» (By Fabio Gallo and Cristian Giacon)
September October 2017 Back to school
We are back to school and we start our activities before the 3rd mobility meeting here in Italy next November.
We have to analyse some study cases related to specific events, where immigrants from different countries are involved.
After the second trasnational meeting in September here in Italy we are focusing on two cases especially.
CASE 1
NAME: Said
-Gender: male
-Country of origin: Morocco
-Age:14
-Familiar Situation: Poor, a Family of 5 children + parents, they live in a very small house. Only the father works but he doesn’t make enough money.
-Additional data:
- One of the children leaves school to look for a job in his country of origin but he doesn’t find any (no experience, no skills, no qualifications)
- Decides to travel (illegally) to Spain/Sweden/Italy/Czech Rep. at any cost. His expectations are not real!! he doesn’t have a working age, he may not fit into the education system (doesn’t speak the language) and therefore has no way out.
CASE 2
NAME: Khaled
-Gender: Male
-Country of origin: Afghanistan
-Age:23
-Familiar Situation: Father of two and head of a family. Furthermore, the oldest of three brothers.
-Additional data:
- his Family live illegally in Iran.
- he arrives illegally in Spain/Sweden/Italy/Czech Rep with a group of people.
- he Lives in a small flat in the capital (together with 8 more people). He’s been here for one year. Works in a construction company for which he has worked illegally. His goal is to reunite his family.
16th October 2017
After a long accurate research, we start comparing what we have fond about the 2 cases, the laws involved, the final possible solutions.
We focus on the 1st studycase in Spanish with our Spanish teacher, while we focus on the 2nd case in English with our English teacher.
