Project Life Jacket: Time to Make Refugees Human Again

     (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20161202/444993 )

     (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20161202/446122 )

Currently, an estimated 60 million people globally are on the move. Human beings, stigmatised by a single word: refugee. Often associated with criminal behaviour, violence and poverty, it is all too often forgotten that these people led perfectly normal lives before they had to flee. That is why the Swiss NGO "The Voice Of Thousands", supported by over 20 European NGOs, has initiated Project Lifejacket. "We visited refugees in camps in Greece and drew the life stories of nine individuals onto life jackets", says joint initiator Michael Grossenbacher . The drawings bear witness to their lives before the war, before they had to put on a life jacket and become 'refugees'.

Ismail Nerabani, a 36-year-old father of two was born in Aleppo and studied French literature. "We were very happy with our life; we lacked for nothing", Nerabani remembers. On projectlifejacket.com everyone can experience the life stories of Ismail and eight other people first-hand. The initiative also provides opportunities for meaningful support with direct impact: donations of money and goods and the opportunity to get personally involved.

Michael Grossenbacher
projectlifejacket@jvm.ch
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