Country: Italy
Name of partner organization: Tecnopras s.a.s.
Number of participants: 11
Target group: Migrants
Date: 25 October 2014
Location: Association
Gli Argonauti 2000, Rome
Duration: 2 hours
Description of activity:
Book chosen: ‘The
girl who fell from sky’, Heidi W. Durrow (the novel tells the story of Rachel,
the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor
of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new
guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin,
blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s,
she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a
biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white).
The learners have
welcomed the initiative as an opportunity for socialization among migrants and
integration in the hosting community.
Most of them were
already acquainted with one another, therefore the initial embarrassment that
arose in previous Clubs was not relevant and the participants could make the
most of the experience with the educators.
At the end of the
Club, the participants agreed for an extra time together to visit an exhibition
of African photography.
