Therapist Supportive Workshop for kidnapped Students by ISIS| Suruc, Turkey Brief about the Project The students are Peace and Freedom builders! UKSSD held a workshop for the students who were kidnapped by ISIS in May.2014 when they were coming back from school exams from Aleppo that time. The students are between 14-18 years old. They were in ISIS detention between 3-5 months and faced different methods of torture, especially students whose families have links to PYD or YPG. Above that, the students were forced in detention to go through a Shareeah Course which included many extremist radical input far away from the modest right Islam Principles. The ISIS intentionally implemented a brain-washing process on kidnapped students; therefore, the students tend now to isolate themselves from the society and suffer fear and insecurity in the community. UKSSD as a student organization working on peace building and tolerance among all Syrian society components, and seek to achieve a real just democracy in future Syria, and to rescue a young generation from the threat and risk of radicalism and extremism; UKSSD organized a therapist supportive workshop for kidnapped students to enable them to interact in their youth and social surroundings, and to guide them to activities suitable for their young age. Activities of First Day | 23.11.2014 The workshop started on Sunday 23.11.2014 at 10:00 AM in Suruc City, Turkey and ended at 17:00 evening. The workshop was opened with a word from Ahmed Shekho UKSSD Kobani Student Director as he welcomed the students and thanked them for joining the workshop and explained the reasons and facts behind organizing this workshop for them. Ahmed Shekho talked also about the social integration and youth activities in the life of Syrian youth and the importance of the role of young students to get back to their active role with their colleagues in their student youth groups and organizations with other Syrian spectra. Also, he focused and reassured the students on avoiding the Media or interviews with journalists at present time because it might put their lives or their families at risk and threat in Turkey or Syria. The workshop sessions started with 17 students and the UKSSD invited two local trainers: Mohammed Ali Ahmed and Maroof Akarai. The first session of the workshop included an introduction about students and trust building between the kidnapped students, UKSSD team, and the trainers. After that, Khalil Qotarsh and Mohammed Jomaah (School teachers of students in Kobani and very close to them) talked about the beautiful school days together in the past and all adventures together. They promised the students that those days are going to come back again soon. Then, Ahmed Shekho talked about education and school, and its importance in our life; he promised the students that we will do our best to secure alternative education methods and suitable atmosphere for them, to compensate them from their absence from their studies during the ISIS detention period. Even if we dont receive any aid or support from INGOs or individuals, we will still find or make a way, because students and youth are our hope and future that will enlighten future democratic pluralistic civil Syria where there will be no differences according to race, religion, or gender. The workshop included pauses so students will not feel tired or exhausted. Beverages, food, and sweets were always distributed during sessions. The students were very happy for organizing this workshop for them by USSSD regardless of the hard circumstances that UKSSD and all Syrians suffer from. This workshop was intended to be implemented in Kobani City, Syria, but due to security concerns we did it in Turkey, Ahmed Shekho added. The session for discussions and dialogue between students, UKSSD team, and the trainers finished at 15:00; as the trainers and UKSSD talked about the Shareeah course that students forced to have it at detention and its radical and extremist effects. Through this session, trainers and UKSSD team could enable the students to start expressing thmesleves as a first step to get back to socail and student activties again. The response from students side was very high and positive and the workshop will go on to cover more themes and also students who are in other cities in Turkey. The Entertainment session started at 15:00 and finished at 17:00 as UKSSD reserved a football pitch for the students to feel more secured and included. The goal for this session was to continue in talking and discsussing with students while playing with each other so trust building will increase from students side as a preparation for next days of this project. Media and Students Safety UKSSD has forbidden all media and journalists to come close to the workhsop area or take photos or interviews with the students for their safety and security. UKSSD believes that media should not target those students or their families to avoid any discrimination or violenvce against them from some groups/individuals who might be pro-ISIS in in Turkey. Feedback from Families of Students Some of the students families contacted UKSSD to get sure about the safety of their children. They showd respect and gratitude to UKSSD team in Turkey for holding this project for their sons. Also, some of them who are teachers or working in other fields offered UKSSD their availability to work voluntary in this project with UKSSD team so all students who were kidnapped by ISIS can be included. Support UKSSD in this Project! The next days of this workshop will be held in Suruc and Urfa cities for a period of one month, each week one day. UKSSD seeks first of all moral support before the financial one so all kidnapped students can be covered in this initiative. We do cordially thank each individual supported and contributed in this project (Especially Great activists who made this project to be imlemented), and we do promise that we will never stop our work for Syrian youth and students so we can achieve a real integration and tolerance again among Syrian society. __________________________________________________ مكتب الإعلام المركزي 27 / 11 / 2014 Yekîtiya Xwendekarên Kurd li Sûrî û Elmaniya اتحـــاد الطلــبة الكُـــرد فـــي سوريــــا والــمانيـــا Union of Kurdish Students in Syria and Germany ukss-sy.org twitter/UKSSD2012 #UKSSD
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 20:00:32 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015