Our project, once more, in the media

 

"El correo" newspaper May 9th, 2017

The President of BUBISHER, MR LIMAN BOICHA, thanks our collaboration to build a new library in the refugee campsites in TINDOUF (Algeria)

 

Next October,2016, if everything goes fine, we will search for the most convenient site to build Bubisher Library at Dajla. By the time, the library-bus will have arrived. This bus will be driven to all its schools and neighbourhoods to announce all the children and youths that human right, that of reading, the same as that of education, health or decent housing, is theirs. Those youths´ homes tumbled down and their adobe walls just turned into mud one year back, when, all of a sudden, it started pouring down in Sahara like it had not rained in the last 25 years. Dajla is the furthest camp, the least inhabited, the one which has suffered exile´s scourge the hardest. The most loved, though. Those who still live there feel they are Dajlians, have a group spirit, love their poor landscape, stand against so much adversity. And Bubisher´s library will become, if everything works out all right, their common room, a place for pleasure, in a  camp that lacks bars, lacks everything which does not serve to the most immediate survival.

Some months back, when we paid you a visit, we suggested you embrace each other so as to guarantee a month´s  wages to one of those Saharan youths who have already become librarians at Bojador or Smara. However, we have decided that we must be daring and that your effort will enable for us to hire the first librarian at Dajla. You are just not aware of how much we value your efforts, your imagination to raise funds. It is true that the Basque Country has always been generous  as well as supportive, that what you have done has not been alien to you, such has been the climate that you have grown up to. Some of you may think that what you have done has not been big deal, that you might have achieved far more had you tried harder. But you have made a new library possible, together with other people´s efforts somewhere else.

Saharan youths are no abstract beings; neither are you. They are Bachir, Mahyuba, the same as you are Aitor, Aintzane or Maialen. And when you go to a library to borrow a book and you don´t know why it´s there or why the librarian is doing her work there, do please think that many a people once fought, risking their jobs and even their freedom, for there to be books both in Spanish and Basque, without any censorship or restrictions. There are people behind those shelves, dead or alive, silent heroes who have paved our ways to those libraries. Well, when Ebnu or Nuha make it to that library in Dajla and borrow a book in Spanish or Arabic, you will also become a voiceless, anonymous hero. I don´t know whether you will feel a breeze in your neck, the breath of someone from far away. But that breath will exist and so will you.

We will only be free if we know which path to choose. Your Saharan peers will be free because you will have provided them the map of all those paths.

It is on behalf of all our teachers, Bubisher´s two hundred members, on behalf of the students who have also contributed with their effort at all the schools of the state that we thank you.

This library will also be yours. Who knows whether you, or some of you, or even many of you will ever come over and see it, enjoy it. And also work in it, reading their first tale a Saharan child who will not be able to read it by themselves. Maybe one of your teachers will come over to teach techniques and ideas to the new librarian. Your Saharan friends will be only too pleased to welcome you and make tea under the stars. And there will be laughter and hugging. And our hug. Leid fi leidi: hand on hand.

Inés and Gozalo, on behalf of Bubisher.

We have invited Mr Shan Sei Fan, a chinese genealogist at school. Our students work on relationships with the chinese community in Tahiti and learn about their genealogy. It was a great moment !

Article publié dans la Dépêche de Tahiti le mercredi 19 Octobre 2016 n° 17231

And you can read the translation below

The Aorai Students Get to Know Their Forefathers

A warm welcome was awaiting Mr Louis Shan Sei Fan at Aorai High School yesterday morning. Expert in genealogy and family trees for the Chinese community in Tahiti, Mr Shan Sei Fan had come to guide the students who were looking for information about their ancestors.

Catherine Lusseau, history and geography teacher in charge of coordinating the programme Erasmus+ explains : « The students currently work, with our European partners, on the topic ‘The Relationships to the Others’. So we decided to collect information about the Chinese community in Tahiti and the way its members integrated the Polynesian society. The students are working on their genealogy in order to know who their ancestors were. The aim of this exercise is to show our partners that, following the Polynesian example, a multicultural society can prove to be tolerant and thus live peacefully. We may say French Polynesia is a sort of laboratory for the world.»

The topic of this European programme is entitled « It’s my life, it’s my choice ». Among the tenth and eleventh graders who met Louis Shan Sei Fan, one student found out that her ancestor came from Germany. He was a captain on board a whaling boat which called in at the Austral islands. « This type of exercise corresponds to the objective of the programme : being tolerant, live in peace », adds Catherine Lusseau. « An exhibition about the story of the Chinese community will take place next January for the Chinese New Year, The work prepared by the students will be posted online on the Erasmus + platform. »

 Meheitia Sandford, a fifteen-year-old grader says « I discovered that my ancestor’s name was Sun Ko. He arrived on Rurutu island in 1920. He came to open a grocery store. He belonged to the latest wave of Chinese immigrants. My parents told me about this historical part but they didn’t say anything about my ancestor. »

 Aorai High School and its partners, have also launched a health programme which is related to the Erasmus+ syllabus.

 Three students will go to Sweden next January, and three or four other students will travel to Spain in May, thus living the exciting adventure of meeting other people and learning other cultures. Hinaiarii Tamaititahio, a sixteen-year-old students in eleventh grade Literature says : « I discovered that I had a German ancestor » We made researches about our forefathers in order to know if they were Chinese. As for me, I found out that one of my ancestors was German. He was my great great grandfather. I don’t know his name but he was a captain on a whaling boat which came to Raivavae. I have just discovered that and I am quite surprised. »

                   Translated in English by Terminale GF students and Mrs. Macouin, their teacher

We have held classes telling our student´s about the hidden sugar that is found in different meals. What kinds of food/drink you can find much sugar in and what the sugar does.

We have created a new webpage that describes the project and hopefully get´s us more attention in Uddevalla municipality

Follow the link if you want to visit our webpage! Send me some feedback if you think there is something more that I should add. Some of the writing is in swedish but use google translate if you want to read it all! Have a good day everyone!

The link: http://www.uddevalla.se/4.58cbd8941579fc128269b5.html

Erasmus on Swedish college

We went to the college in Trollhättan (Högskolan Väst is the name of it) to tell teacher-students about our project. We got many interesting questions and helped spread the word about this great project!

Diary from Turkey - Sweden

Turkey

The trip from Sweden to Turkey was the best trip I have done. It was an interesting trip because I have learned much new things. There are a lot of new things that I have learned during the trip that I previously had no idea about. It's been fun to visit the historical sites and also the museum we were at.

This trip will have many memories of all the fun things that we have done. All all fan pictures we have takeed and when it came up a girl who ask to buy my sunglasses.

This is one of all the pictures I have taken. I thought it was very funny when they asked if they could take a picture too tougher with me. That was for the first time I felt a little bit famous.

This is an picture that the bus driver wanted to take on me, I do not know why. He asked it on Turkish so I did not understand what he meant first but then he show me what he meant. I was quite scared but still thought it was a funny thing.

This is another picture of a funny thing happened during the trip. It arrived a random man who worked at the market and asked me if I could take a picture of him when he was sitting there.

It has almost been only positive things of the trip.  There's somethings that have not been so good. The one thing was that I've moved around so much, I could live with three different families before we went home. But that was one positive thing about it was because that I got to see how the different families all lived, there were much difference between all the families I was with. So just that has been an experience.

But this trip is really something I want to do again!!!!!!!!

Ottilia

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I´ve had lots of fun on the trip to Turkey. I´ve learned about new cultures, new languages and i´ve gotten to know new people. I now know more about Turkey and how the people there live their lives. They have a big food culture, when they eat they eat small portions of a lot of different food and they are not afraid to try new food.

I´ve also learned that it's important how you dress yourself. It is not many people that put on shorts or dresses etc like it is in sweden. I’am used to dress myself after what weather it is, so when i come to a country that is very hot i put on shorts, but the people there are not used to that.

The people from Turkey love their country very much. You can see the turkish flag  everywhere and they know very much about their history and the one who created Turkey. And they love to tell everyone about it and are very proud.

I lived with a lovely girl called Beyza. She lived with me when everyone came to sweden. I lived in a apartment with a beautiful view and it almost looked like a picture from Greece.

So my trip to Turkey has been amazing. I´ve met so many nice and kind people and i have so many memories and pictures and i think it has been a amazing experience

Jonna

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That first thing I want to say is that I have learned myself so many things like communicate with people that not speaking swedish or english, how spoiled we are in Sweden and how fun it can be to meet new people. I maybe not learned so much english that I would hope for but but that things that I did learn is awesome because no one can get things like this learned in school, like see how they live in their weeks and not just see how the tourist places are.

My thoughts about the journey is that I had very fun and the people in Turkey are very kind. The days was sometimes little more boring than other but that is live I guess. I liked when we students was together on the evenings and played games with each other. One thing that I didn't like was when our schedule was changed and we did other stuff to compare it.

Another thing that I didn’t like so much was the long bus trips we did because the heat and the days was ruined so we didn’t do so much after that. The weather was good but little to much clouds on the sky.

Maybe that I like most about Turkey is their food. I like their food because I like meat and the fruits was so sweet and delicious.    

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My home was very good, I’ve got mine in room, they had nice toilets and a comfortable house just to be in. Where I lived compared to other it was pretty good.  

I think this journey is worth the time to do stuff like write and so on and it’s really worth the experience that you will get from this. I don’t regret anything from this trip.

I didn’t take so much pictures so I leave that to the other students.

That was my thoughts about this journey.

David Nilsson Sweden.

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My experience in Turkey was very fun, and if I had the chance I would do it all over again. I learned a lot during my week in Turkey, such as how a Turkish school looked like. It was very different compared to mine, but then every school isn’t alike. The school in Turkey was just one building, compared to mine, it has several buildings so sometimes you have to go outside to go to another lesson. The nature was also a bit different, there were a lot of stray dogs and cats on the streets. Something I also learned that was different from Sweden is that they didn’t wear seatbelts while in the car. Because in Sweden there is a law that says you have to wear seatbelt.

I also learned that the people there were different levels of religious. Not everyone were very religious and some were.

Some good things about the trip is that you meet new people from other countries, which is really cool. You learn to be more independent and also how to be more social, which is important on a trip like this. You also learn more about another countries traditions.

Some bad stuff that happened in Turkey was that the principal didn’t want all of us to hangout on the evenings, because he didn’t want boys and girls to be around each other without any grown up watching. Probably so that any inappropriate stuff wouldn’t happen.

Ellen Berntsson