Migrant•Bus, Touring Talents

<p><strong>Migrant&bull;Bus</strong>, is a mobile project that aims to create social bond&nbsp;between french and refugee populations.</p> <p><strong>We launch Migrant&bull;Bus</strong>&nbsp;to help change the perception of refugee people by french people</p> <p>- by getting together french and refugee people that would have never met</p> <p>- by highlighting professional skills of our team of refugees</p> <p>Migrant&bull;Bus is Ludovic and Emma, two young french freshly back from Lesvos where we worked as volunteers at One Happy Family community center.</p> <p>When we went&nbsp;back to France we understood that the end of their journey didn&#39;t mean that it was the end of their troubles. Nothing was really done to integrate refugees in France, nor preparing french people to welcome new populations.</p> <p>Besides volunteering with Utopia 56 and joining France Must Act to keep being useful to help refugees in France and in Europe, we decided to quit our jobs and&nbsp;focus on the desconstruction of prejudices towards refugee population, in a country where the media spread a large homogeneous miserable, or worse, dangerous image of&nbsp;these populations.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/732544/75c2ea33-2cb6-495f-86f6-8c794215c02b.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Since then Haider, a young Afghan sociologist, joined us to recruit our team of helpers (refugees volunteers for Migrant&bull;bus). He will also come with&nbsp;us on the&nbsp;first Migrant&bull;Bus trip.</p> <p>Migrant&bull;Bus will start this summer throughout France with its tiny house and a team of 6 helpers. We will&nbsp;successively go from town to town for about&nbsp;1 week in every step.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/731713/be4dce57-2faf-4bed-96b1-6d33ad551fdb.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>To make sure social connexions are made, we ask the villagers to provide our team with an accomodation.</p> <p>During our stay we will organize lots of animations, workshops related to the professional skills of our teammates.&nbsp;</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://d3v4jsc54141g1.cloudfront.net/uploads/project_image/image/731714/20b8d36d-acf4-4cf2-a80e-73845bf3e8d0.jpg" width="100%" /></p> <p>Our tiny house will of course include a kitchen and all materials for our activities, and be the place where the meetings happen. We will also have more informal theme parties to make sure our team can get along with local people, have fun and get to know each other.</p> <p>By doing so, our project intends to serve as much our teammates by allowing them to use their skills again and discover french culture and improve they language skills, and the local people that will be able to travel throughout different cultures in their own village.</p> <p>To do that, <strong>we need you</strong> !!</p> <p>Our crowdfunding campaign will help us to launch our activity by the summer.&nbsp;</p>