On the weekend of 26th - 28th Red Cross youths from parts on Norway gathered together in Molde in Møre og Romsdal District to participate in the 24th hours role play “På Flukt”We arrived in Molde around 6pm (18:00) on Friday with the Role play instructors - the participants were to come the following day since the role play started at 12:00pm on Saturday, 27th march.
Friday night the instructors sat on round table planning the game and giving out roles to each instructor which has to be kept secret from the participants. 
As the participants arrived they were introduced to a short movie clip of the political background from the country of the participants origin, for instance Somalia in this case.
The participants were divided into various families with passports. They had to remember all members in the family with all their given names. The game started at 12pm Saturday 27th and ended on Sunday 28th at 12pm, with 20 instructors and eight families. 
The main point of this role play is to make the youth in Norway feel what refugees all over the world feel and experience, in a life with hard struggles like no food, clothing, clean drinking water and a long distance travelling to safer zones.
In the role play little boiled rice were given to the participants once, around 1am
That is a practical knowledge about the refugee life that you are not taught in class.
You role plays the experience and feel deep inside you how it is to live 24 hours walking long distances with a heavy bag pack.
After 24hours in the play,the participants finally were be given some food to eat. As they eat the instructors were allowed to sit with them and share what they experienced in these 24hours and how the instructors acted upon them. 
I and my co-delegate had 10mins of introduction of what we do here in Norway as youth delegates.
The instructors during the weekend role play. 26th - 28th March 2010.
Finally but not the least, thanks to Matilde and the crew for arranging such a wonderful Role play (På flukt) - let us join hands together as we continue fighting for this world to be a better place. :)
Kevin Klæboe Larsen and Matiilde Etholm
The Role play had been so stressing and there were too many responsibilities to handle, but all in all it went well and turned out to be a successful Role play!!!
This is beautiful reporting on what you guys are doing with the youth in Norway. Keep the good work you are doing and be an examplary for the youth work in Norway.Hopefully people, specially the youth will have a new perspective on refugess youth in Norway. That is how and why some of their foreign classmates at school end here in Norway as refugees. They will view those young people around them at schools with more respect as unique individuals,survivors but resilient kids who undergone a lot. AS such we must all work together as you said, to make the work a better place for all. Where there is injustice, we must fight for justice, where there is inequality we must fight for equality etc.
ReplyDeleteThank you for this report and good luck as you continue to train the youth in Norway.
SAW!!!