Ciao beautiful people,
We have some great news - we have our first sponsor for our monthly updates. Yes, we have known the company for a while - but that’s not the point! Ever heard of friends, family and fools helping your project in the early days - let’s hope you see them as friends and family, but not fools. 😉 They are good at what they do as well, so you can be assured you will be in good hands with them.
2E Apostille Services offer a document concierge service for:
Authentication – UK Foreign Office
Attestation – various embassies
Certification – by lawyers & notaries
Translation – by certified translators
So, if you ever need their support just look them up and mention us for some special treatment!
Now coming to the life over the last month? We started working with GenZ AI gurus. They are helping us organise our gaming side of the business. Yes, they are powering our games using AI. If you remember the work we did with GenZ coders from the post conflict country of Lebanon with Code Brave last year. They kicked off the process of gamification for us. We are now taking their good work to the next level with these AI gurus. More about this later.
Articles and podcasts we shared over the last month
You can catch up here
Arty Refugees Stories each have a 10 min podcast and a 2 min read article with an infographic summary.
🌍 "In the first place, we don’t like to be called refugees." 🚫✈️ This powerful statement kicks off Arendt's essay 'We Refugees' 📝📚💔 Listen & Read here .
🎶 Explore the soulful journey of Faye Gael 🌍 Exile, identity, and genocide intertwine in his music & debut novel "Petit Pays" wins 5 literary awards 📚 Listen & Read here.
🎨 Tibetan Exile Thrives in US: Blending Traditional Buddhist Art with Contemporary Western Influences 🌟 Listen & Read here.
Post Conflict conversations - each podcast is 10 mins and the article is 5 mins read.
🌍 Lost Lessons: Unveiling the Impact in Kashmir 📚✨ Navigating the Challenges in Children's Education in a Post-Conflict Region 💔👧 Empower the Future, Rewrite the Story 🌈💪 Listen & Read here.
🕰️✨ Back to the (destroyed) future: 🌍 The resilient journey of child refugees returning to Bosnia-Herzegovina post-war. 🤝 Listen & Read here.
The Danger of Forgetting 🌏: Cambodia’s Lost Identity and the Imperative of Remembrance 🕊️✨ Listen & Read here.
💥ISIS 'Caliphate' Ended, But 60K from 57 Countries Linger in Syrian Camps: The Untold Story of the 'Brides of ISIS'🌍 Listen & Read here.
They are free to access for the first 3 weeks after posting 😉 Look forward to seeing which one you liked the most.
Volunteers Corner
Great updates about what our previous student journalists have been up to -
Skylar after completing her time with us joined Civil Net to pursue her career as a journalist. While there she found time to write another article for us -
🚀🔥 Direct from the Front Lines: The Total Impact of War 😱🌍 Fall-Out From Nagorno-Karabakh 💥✊ Feature Article Unveils All! Listen & Read here.
Now she is a freelance journalist at International Business Times
Fiona (see above) after completing her time with us built on her work with us and wrote an article based on her arty refugee Hannah Ardent article. “Ardent’s Puzzle: Can one do evil without being evil? “ got published by Poltik Perspective. Have a read here.
Great news isn’t it 🙂
8 students from War Studies Department, King’s College, London, just completed their internships with us. Watch this space for their back story podcasts and interesting articles about post conflict communities like what’s going in Nigeria to Northern Ireland.
We have 18 students from Oxford University joining us in March - yup, that’s next month. We can’t wait to share our work with them for you. Don’t forget to tell your friends about their work as well.
We also have 6 students from Birmingham University working with us building their personal selling skills and game dev experience.
If you want to try out the game we are developing with them you can try it out here. 👇Don’t forget to tell your friends and family about.
Cassia is still travelling in Central America. She manages to find time to edit articles. Falak is working her way through her university applications, while still finding time to help out. Taya took a bit time off and will be back next month.
Great isn’t it - how many students love working with us to keep you informed and updated on current affairs and refugee related issues.
Gifting Corner 🛍️
What a great way to celebrate International Women’s Day by supporting a female artist while making your impact and enjoying some shopping - with discounts no less.
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, Taya and the team of committed professionals.