Pocket Stories

22/12/2023

The Roots Guide Educational Toolkit is here! 🎉

Are you an or looking for creative approaches to citizenship education-related content and teaching ideas on themes like , , , , , and ?

Our new 📕 Roots Guide Educational Toolkit is designed for you!

It offers you step-by-step instructions and ready-to-use lesson plans that can be used with teens and adults alike in both and learning settings.

🔗 Download our FREE 48-page toolkit here: https://www.ourpocketstories.org/rootsguide

Designed by experienced educators and facilitators active in the fields of global citizenship education (GCE) and diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) in the Netherlands and around the world, the Roots Guide Educational Toolkit provides solid pedagogical structure and innovative, carefully researched content that enables introspection, sparks curiosity and inspires bravery to explore the complex political, socio-economic, and cultural situations we currently find ourselves in, and to imagine what futures we want to emerge.

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The Roots Guide Educational Toolkit’s creation team includes Meghann Ormond, Ingi Mehus, Fiona Hawes, Kristina Mau Hansen, Rehab Eldalil, Daniel J. Wurpel, and Hamzah Kashash.
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A big shoutout to the inspiring Roots Guide toolkit storytellers Carmen Guillen, Abdul Altawekji, Alina Vartanovna, and Abel Fernando💌

Finally, the Roots Guide initiative is made possible by support from the National Geographic Society, Wageningen University & Research, and folks like you.

03/10/2023

Pocket Stories volunteers Fiona-Marie Hawes and Meghann Ormond are just back from a week in , the tiny Calabrian hillside village revived after decades of as a home for with -seeking backgrounds awaiting permanent residence status in .

Pocket Stories is a partner in the + 'Rural Migrantour' KA2 project, an initiative designed to develop new guided walking tours supporting , , and in areas around Europe. The Migrantour (https://www.mygrantour.org/en/) network brings together 20+ organisations in urban areas and is now expanding to include rural areas, which are oftentimes only considered as places people leave and overlooked as destinations in themselves.

Over these last two years, Rural Migrantour partners have been exploring the unique geographical, social and political challenges associated with creating tour routes addressing their areas' many layers of . We found ourselves frequently not only examining the areas' most recent cross-border migratory experiences but also putting them into conversation with ones that are centuries and even millennia old. We also became increasingly alert to the nuanced , regional and national contexts that shape dominant rural narratives about what/where/when constitutes a 'local' and a 'foreigner'.

One point is clear: whether rural or urban, past or present, migration should not be treated as an exception to some imagined sedentary norm.

During our days together, we also had the great pleasure of taking Camini's first Rural Migrantour. Migrantour intercultural companions Douaa, a writer, and Zakaria, an intercultural mediator, brought us through Jungi Mundu's array of creative labs that support the inclusion of newcomers as well as the many beautiful murals and artfully restored buildings that have helped to bring Camini back to life. Congratulations to them on the work they've done! May they continue to unpack and examine the many "bags" upon which Camini continues to be built.

Special thanks to the event's brilliant organiser and Jungi Mundu project manager Serena Franco, Jungi Mundu's co-director Rosario Zurzolo, the very talented siblings Douaa and Hamza Alokla, and everyone we had the opportunity to meet over these last days for their great insight, moving talent and incredible hospitality!

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The Erasmus+ 'Rural Migrantour' KA2 project project is led by Terra Vera (Slovenia) and includes viaggi solidali , EUROCOOP Camini “Jungi Mundu”, Borgata Paraloup - Impresa Sociale and Fondazione Nuto Revelli (Italy), Μονοπάτια της Ελλάδας - Paths of Greece (Greece), LAG Svilengrad (Bulgaria), and Pocket Stories (Netherlands).

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Photo credits: Meghann Ormond & Fiona Hawes

25/07/2023

One of our past storytellers, Anna Karakozova, needs our help.

Her daughter Paula is seriously ill with ME and hopes to get her Neurophysics Treatment. Since this treatment is unavailable in the Netherlands, they must go to Australia. But this is costly, and in Anna's words, "I can't do it alone. I need the power of network now."

That is what Pocket Stories is all about - connecting and supporting each other. You may have met Anna during one of our storytelling events or resonate with her story. If you have the means, however big or small, please join us in supporting our valuable community member and her beloved daughter..
Read Paula's story in the GoFundMe link below:

Hallo allemaal, English ⤵️ Русский ⤵️ Hieronder lees je het verhaal van onze lieve dochter, zus, … Paula Diaz needs your support for Samen voor Paula!

17/04/2023

01/11/2022

Our Roots Guide is featured in Bedrock Magazine:

"Reizen is een geweldige manier om de wereld om je heen te ontdekken en jezelf beter te leren kennen. Maar twee jaar corona-lockdowns, het klimaatakkoord van Parijs dat boven ons hoofd hangt en recenter de chaos op de vliegvelden doen ons noodgedwongen reflecteren op ons reisgedrag. Daarom presenteren we met veel liefde de Roots Guide, een ultra-duurzame reisgids waarmee je een inspirerende reis door Nederland kunt maken."

We presenteren met veel liefde de Roots Guide, een ultra-duurzame reisgids waarmee je een inspirerende reis door Nederland kunt maken.

05/10/2022

Roots Guide is the top pick at the 12th issue of Raccords as preferred resource to help us deepen our understanding of the migrant reality!📙

Guests of this 12th issue of Raccords share their preferred resources to help us deepen our understanding of the migrant reality.

03/09/2022

We love seeing on display in ! You can borrow a copy in their library or get your personal copy by purchasing one at www.rootsguide.org (see link in bio)📙

03/09/2022

We are very proud of and .hansen who organised our beautiful presentation in 🤩📙

03/09/2022

Our storytelling guides , and Masood read their beautiful stories during our book presentation in in today! What a beautiful way to spend a Saturday📙☀️

20/08/2022

Do you live in Wageningen? Come and join us at the Wageningen public library on Saturday, 3 September to experience the Roots Guide!📙

This event has been organised by our wonderful Kristina and Alejandra. It's going to be a really lovely event, with 3 of our guides from the book - Razan, Lay and Massoud - sharing their stories with the audience.

Join us!

🇳🇱 Ontmoet Roots Guide - jouw atypische gids van Nederland. Op 3 september ben je uitgenodigd om kennis te maken met Roots Guide, een interactieve reisgids die