Ciao beautiful people,
How is your summer coming along? Did you know the Olympic Games are a thrilling showcase of unity and fairplay. So every four years we feel inspired when we meet the Refugee Olympic Team. These athletes overcome incredible challenges, compete under the Olympic flag, symbolizing hope and resilience. Remember “The Swimmer” - what a great movie. It was about only one such inspiring athlete, but they are many more like her. Their stories remind us that the spirit of the Games is about more than medals—it's about courage, perseverance, and global togetherness.
Now for our next innovation 🙂- Here we co created an interesting way for you to engage with the student journalists work. eBooklets - yup! now you can also access the student journalism articles via your beloved kindles. You can access the eArticle on Amazon - just click on the booklet cover below 👇
Look forward to seeing what your friends and family think of them.
Before we go further a quick word about this month’s sponsor -
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Don’t forget to mention Arts4Refugees for some special love ❣️
Podcasts & articles we shared over the last month
Unveiling the Refugee Experience: Hayv Kahraman's Art of Identity and Displacement
Unpacking Memories: Surviving Fragments - A Journey Through Displacement and Identity Reconstruction
Unmasking Gender-Based Violence in Post-Conflict Kosovo: Shedding Light on Domestic Abuse and Femicide
Uncovering the Power of Art: Behjat Omer Abdulla's Journey of Self-Discovery and Empathy for Refugees
Samira Kitman: Defying Expectations and Achieving Dreams Through Calligraphy and Miniatnres
From Baghdad to Los Angeles: Hayv Kahraman's Artistic Exploration of Refugeehood and Identity
Forced Back Home? The dangers of rushing IDP resettlement in Nigeria
They are free to access for the first 3 weeks after posting 😉 Look forward to seeing which one you liked the most.
Gaming Corner 🎮
Our gaming dev team are working away on the micro games. This week you can enjoy the updated version of the Freddie Mercury game. Don't forget to share the fun with your friends as well 🙂
Click start to access the game 👇
Rosebud loves our work with them so much they will be mentioning us their coming blog post - so watch this space for more!
Volunteers Corner
Our Gaming Dev team time is fast coming to an end - during their time with us they have created 15 + micro games. They re purposed the Arty Refugees articles and converted them into an Ai based micro game. Did you try them? More here.
This was the first time the team created a game. They received all the training during the time working with us. Now have solid experience creating micro games using Ai. They have decided to stay on and train the next round of interns on guess what? Ai based gaming 😊
Gifting Corner 🛍️
#NoMatterWhat: Humanitarians Deliver is on 19th of August. It would be great to show you support. If you want to learn more about World Humanitarian Day - a great blog post here.
You can show your support by making a statement. Don’t forget you can get a 30% discount if you become a paid subscriber. You get to support your local community along with refugees at the same time - why choose one over the other!
Make a statement with wearable art by Harper Bizarre Art
About Harper Bizarre Art. Exhibited at the Tate Galley, London. Harper Bizarre Art 🎨 make a statement totes are exclusively available here. Each time you go shopping you can make a much needed statement. So, treat yourself and your loved ones with these exclusive totes 🛍️ .
50% of Harper Bizarre's earnings from this gift will transform refugees into entrepreneurs. Meaning members from this low income post conflict community can take ownership of their own lives. So, basically, you fund training, inventory and business mentoring with each gift. You can buy the totes here.
For a 30% discount on these arty gifts you have to become a paid member. Membership costs less than a coffee a week. This is how we pay our bills while funding the impact we create.
Till next month folks,
Zufi, Michael, Gerry, Nimrit and the team of committed professionals.