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September 27th, 2017

27/9/2017

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SHARE PEACE  PICNIC


On 23rd of September we celebrated International Day of Peace with SHARE PEACE PICNIC in the Central Park of Serres. This year’s message of the Peace Day was Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for all. António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General said in his message: “In times of insecurity, communities that look different become convenient scapegoats. We must resist cynical efforts to divide communities and portray neighbours as ‘the other’. Discrimination diminishes us all. It prevents people — and societies — from achieving their full potential. Together, let us stand up against bigotry and for human rights. Together, let us build bridges. Together, let us transform fear into hope.”
This message inspired us, the PRAXIS team to organise SHARE PEACE PICNIC to bring everyone in Serres together – the locals, Yazidis and European volunteers. Bring them together and enjoy our time together while sharing our diverse cultures.
In this blogpost our team is sharing our experience of organising this event:

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"Normally I don’t enjoy this kind of social events, but I have to admit that this picnic was something really good. People from the camp came, even the girls and we enjoyed a really good afternoon together.
I even ate pie, something really odd to me. I met new people, the others danced, and my incredible canary sauce (Alioli) was a success and that’s what matters now. For me it is the best event till now, so I hope I can support in more works and share more with my friends here in PRAXIS."
- Cristo

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"For me it is really exciting to organize this kind of events! Specially, when our main goal is to bring people together and enjoy the time. I am someone, who likes to make other people happy - it makes me the happiest.
So while back, when we started to generate ideas for this event it became like a mission – whatever happens, we will give our all and make this the best possible event ever. And with this kind of attitude magic happens. The whole organising process was like a ride in American mountains, overcoming smaller and bigger challenges on the way, but our team was determined to find all the solutions and create an event that will be remembered.
And I believe this is what happened. We enjoyed the event a lot. We loved to taste different kind of homemade food, play football, dance, talk to each other, make soap bubbles, draw, play Frisbee. We were really happy to see so many people joining us. We know it is just a beginning and we can grow a lot, but hey, you have to start from somewhere!
  In our group we believe that sharing our time is the most precious thing we can do and this is why we organize this kind of events outside our everyday activities. To show the locals different cultures and make our Yazidi friends feel more welcomed and feel more home."
- Maris

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"The best picnic starts with sharing. Our picnic was special because it brought together people from different path and we met in the middle.
We shared our food with each other and we ate together. Later some of us played football, some of us drew our hands on the poster in order to make our logo for the photo wall.
People kept coming and coming to our event. Even the girls from the camp. In the beginning they were little shy, but they were so cute. We shared our food with them which made them happy and they opened up more to join our activities (like playing football).
For me the most enjoyable part was dancing. We came together and danced to a lot of different music at the end of the picnic."
- Tomris

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"All after, I am glad, and satisfied. I would like to say thank you, for our team.
At first, because even if there were some barriers coming up within the organizing part, we solved it in a calm and trustful way. We believed that this event is going to be perfect as it is going to happen and we believed in our goal.

Our goal was to feel ourselves closer to each other, and spend time together. Celebrate that we are in peace for that couple of hours we spend there, in the Share Peace Picnic event.
I would say, in the future our aim should be to keep this in front of our eyes, and be happy for the peaceful hours that we can spend today in this world.
I hope it was not just one time event, and then we are done, but I would like to keep continue to do events like this.
Well why do I feel so, because it feels good to be together with our friends from the refugee camp of Serres. Show each other our colorful backgrounds, cultures, dances, and last but not least to support each other, and feel that we are here for each other and we can count on each other.
Just to make a finale conclusion for the International Day of Peace, well the exact day (21.09) might be over, but I would like to ask to celebrate it every day. It shouldn't be just one day of the year, but make it for every day of the year."
-Dóra


And this is how the SHARE PEACE PICNIC looked like. We enjoyed it, so we are excited for what will happen in the future! Hopefully You are as well!
Our team wants to thank everyone who participated or supported us with this event.
Peace is not something really big and abstract, it start from small things around us. It starts with a smile, with “Hello!”, with offering someone a hand and it can grow into something big: the WORLD PEACE! So, we encourage you to make this everyday habit to share peace around you.

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September 25th, 2017

25/9/2017

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On 21st of September we celebrated International Day of Peace. In times of insecurity in the world we are searching for peace, more stable and life. So sharing peace everyday for everyone has become essential.
For this International Day our volunteers team prepared media campaign to promote and share our ideas about peace around us! Have a look down below!

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September 07th, 2017

7/9/2017

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International day of peace in serres

In the name of International Day of Peace, we are going to organise an event in Serres. Our idea is to have a common picnic together with the people from the refugee camp, the local people of Serres, and the organizations who work with our Yazidi friends, and share our time with each other.
This event is going to take place on the 23rd of September (Saturday) from 4pm till 8 pm in the Central Park of Serres.
This years International Day of Peace message is Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for all. It honors the spirit of TOGETHER - promotes respect, safety and dignity for everyone forced to flee their homes. To support diversity, non-discrimination and acceptance. “Together, let us stand up against bigotry and for human rights. Together, let us build bridges. Together, let us transform fear into hope.”
And what could be more better on that day than bringing people together to enjoy nice afternoon with picnic.
We would like to ask the people, who join our event, to bring with themselves some food that they have prepared before, so in this case we can share our own food with each other. It’s always nice to taste other countries traditional food.
What else will happen?
In order to have fun time and learn some traditional greek dances we are going to invite folkdance groups, or our greek friends can show us some of them. We would like our Yazidi friends as well to introduce their dances with us. In our experience, we know how much they like to dance.
For the children, and of course not just for the children, we are going to have games, like football, badminton, rocket, frisbee on the sport field.
If you feel creative and would like to show your artistic side, we are planning to create photo wall which people can decorate with their writings, drawings etc to show support for the International Day of Peace. We will use this later in the event as a photo wall to take portraits of the people in front of the wall.
It’s always a nice feeling when people support each other one way or another. PRAXIS Greece team would like to ask the people to support the event with a contribution to our picnic tables. If you have some food items like fruits, vegetables, flour, sugar, milk etc that you would like to share with us, we would be really thankful!

Come and share your time with us!

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