A Memorable Experience
How do migrant women integrate themselves into their new society? What challenges do they face? To be able to address migrant women, we wanted to found out the answer to these questions. Research was fine but not enough – we decided that the only way to get a real insight is to talk to migrants in person and to people that already work with migrants.
Therefore, we had the great opportunity to meet Augustine from Cameroon. She is the Director of the Private Centre of Social Services NAVA, Director of AIMISOLA project as well as the chairwoman from “ACUVEDA”. Very excited about what she would tell us about her work, she invited us to a place out of the centre of Madrid. Once we arrived at the place, which was like a garage, we met Augustine and were asked to sit down. To our surprise, we were not the only ones that had been invited. Slowly, more and more women came into the door while Augustine prepared the room with colourful, traditional dresses. We found out, that we were in the middle of an event for migrant women and other institutes that work with them. So women with totally different backgrounds entered the garage. After everyone seemed to be there, we sat in a circle and everyone introduced themselves.
Different backgrounds, different experiences, different ages, different approaches – all that in one circle!
The introductions were followed by interesting discussions and questions concerning theintegration of migrant women into the society in Madrid. At some point, Augustine interrupted to bring the discussion to a end because the actual reason why they met was to have breakfast, have interesting exchanges of experiences and fun!
We than got to experience a great international breakfast with them. Everyone had brought some traditional food from their country. From salty to sweet, from hot to cold, there was nothing missing and Augustine made sure that everyone tried everything!
Right after the delicious breakfast, everyone started talking, dancing, trying on the colourful dresses and taking a lot of pictures. No doubt that everyone was enjoying it.
For us, on the one hand, it was an impressive experience to talk to migrant women and listen to their stories. On the other hand, it was great to see how they interact, share, exchange personal opinions, build networks and enjoy such great events.
Overall, this event was all about bringing people with different backgrounds and approaches but the same goal “to integrate migrant women into Madrid’s society”, together. Augustine, with her open and loving character was the one, who made this possible.
Thank you, for letting us being part of it!
Written by L.A.N.A
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22 Jun 2015
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