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#OneHappyFamily was introduced to Australia today!
Former Australian Human Rights Commissioner Gillian Triggs, renowned investigative journalist, Peter Greste, and our own Bridget Chivers were some of the big names to speak at the student-run @DirrumDirrum Festival at @Radford College Canberra. This year’s theme focused on “truth-telling and power”, and “shared sustainable prosperity”.
Bridget Chivers shared with the audience:
“OHF works to give some dignity and self-determination back to those trapped in transit. The community centre is not built and run for the people, but with them. Together with people from different nations, volunteers, asylum seekers and refugees; it has become a community. In this place, there is no race, no borders. Religion and nationality doesn’t matter here.
The people from the camps often live in total dependency on governmental or NGO aid. Most of them do not wish this. They want to help themselves. They want to be self-determined not determined by others. So, this place is a place of stories. Every single human that walks in here has a story, has a past, has dreams for their future, has skills. These are their messages for you, and their wishes”.
A small display accompanied her speech. This showed the situation in #Moria, snaps of #OHF and portraits and testimonies of the many people who have been part of #OneHappyFamily since we opened.
Let’s keep this global movement going!
Thank you lovely Bridget for your dedication🧡
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5 hours ago
#MeetTheFamily:
#OneHappyFamily is a community center open to everyone. Sometimes we have visitors or team members with special needs. Our new cat family for example needs water in a potty and some food served to their little makeshift next to the water tanks several times a day.
‘I hope that one day I will be strong and independent like my mum cat so that I can be responsible for myself and take care of others’
Thank you beautiful cats to make our space a bit cuter and a lot of people happy.
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3 days ago
#OneHappyPodcast🎙
#Episode4
This episode is all about the volunteers:
We chat with Sam, who volunteered in #OneHappyFamily for 2 months. If you want to know how your time as a volunteer in OHF could look like, listen to Sam’s stories, experiences, laughter and statements.
We also asked Aimerance how she feels about the volunteers who come and go all the time and how she feels sad and happy about that at the same time.
We will have a sneak peak into the pottery workshop, talking to Hugo and a short comedy dialog about the usual small talk with volunteers, that for sure will make you smile.😀
Enjoy the podcast and let us know about your own volunteer experiences.
One Happy Podcast #4 - One Happy Family Community Center Lesvos OHF
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This episode is all about the volunteers. We chat with Sam, who volunteered in One Happy Family for 2 months. If you want to know how your time as a volunteer in OHF could look like, listen to Sam’s...3 days ago
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