Thanks to your generous support, we were able to successfully overcome most of the challenges – despite the pandemic.
You and your financial support helped us to advance our campaign “No camps for women and children! Abolish all camps!” to move forward. We made the bus tour this time to the north of Germany with the theme “Women* Moving Against Lagers and Racism” and were able to build and maintain new and old relationships with women and groups.
We demonstrated, organized workshops and did other activities that we shared with you through the newsletter and our info mails. We supported many refugee women* by referring them to, and in some cases accompanying them to asylum process consultations and medical care organizations.
The women who participate in our empowerment workshops realize that they are not alone in facing these problems. This has given them courage and the strength to address the situation collectively and not perceive it as their individual problems.
A great example of this was our “Women* Moving Against Lager System and Racism” bus tour 2021. During the tour, we met many women who shared with us about their difficult situation. For example, the problems of getting birth certificates for their children, or not having the possibility to attend German courses because their camps are far away from the cities and so on. At the end of the tour, refugee women* and women* with migration background in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern decided to organize themselves as Women in Exile Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This is a great joy and encourages us to continue breaking borders and building bridges.
In the name of all members of Women in Exile & Friends we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your support! We look forward to your continued support in the coming year. This will be special for us, because Women in Exile will be 20 years old and we want to celebrate that.
Women in Exile & Friends, wish you/you peaceful and happy holidays and a good, healthy start into the new year!