Around the walls of gated Cairo University, there is another community living in parallel on the other side of the erected walls in Ard Ellewa district. With some 75,000 migrants –primarily African migrants– inhabiting Ard Ellewa, the district is deemed to be hosting a rather large number of migrants, along with Egyptians. Hence, it has become essential to promote social cohesion between the different communities in the Giza-located district. “Share the Friendship”, a campaign aiming at promoting togetherness between Egyptian children and migrants, is set to lay the first stone towards creating a gracious, nondiscriminant community in Ard Ellewa. The campaign of #Share_the_Friendship is a collaboration between Safarni (an Egyptian initiative which designs and implements innovative intercultural workshops), Egyptian Startup of Bassita (responsible for the clickfunding campaign), Drosos ( Swiss charitable foundation) and IOM (the UN migration agency), along with the French institution in Egypt. Analogous to their regular workshops in which they enable unprivileged children to experience simulated travel and let them experience imaginary journies to new countries, Safarni will bring children from Ard Ellewa to on-the-ground workshops in order to explore the different cultures of the African migrants in a bid…
Egyptian and Migrant Children Join Together to Fight Discrimination, Promote Friendship
February 9, 2018
