The Journey to The Twelve Stars

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Created by ME.YE.OE

Scenario: ME.YE.OE The stories are collected by the students from the Turkish team Drawing & Colors: BG team Layout: Mrs. Todorova and Bulgarian team 2018, PROJECT 2016-1-BG01-KA219-023778

Tsar Simeon Veliki School, Vidin, Bulgaria Istituto Comprensivo Melvin Jones Orazio Comes Szkola Podstawowa im. St. Mikolajczyka Scoala Gimnaziala Pietroasa CEIP LUIS CERNUDA Darica Namik Kemal Ilkokulu DE LA SALLE COLLEGE SIXTH FORM

Since the Syrian civil war officially began March 15, 2011, families have suffered under a brutal conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, torn the nation apart, and set back the standard of living by decades.

About 13.1 million people in the country need humanitarian assistance.

Healthcare centers and hospitals, schools, utilities, and water and sanitation systems are damaged or destroyed. Historic landmarks and once-busy marketplaces have been reduced to rubble.

War broke the social and business ties that bound neighbors to their community. Half of the people affected are children.

The Syrian army and various militant groups are fighting to control territory in the country’s northeast and northwest. The civil war has become a sectarian conflict, with religious groups opposing each other, that affects the whole region and is heavily influenced by international interventions. www.worldvision.org

This is the story of three families from Syria

The Halil Family Halil family has been to Darıca since 2016. Their house which was in Haleppo ruined with the bombs and their belongings were stolen.Day by day their lives in Haleppo was getting difficult.They had a car and sold it about 3500 dollars and decided to come to Turkey in illegal ways. They found a smuggler and gave him 3000 dollars for coming to Turkey. The smuggler took not only the Money but also their luggages and promised to give them back but they couldn’t get them back.Now they are so sorry to give their luggages to him because there were their family photos in them. The journey from Syria to Turkey was like a nightmare. They escaped from the police and tried to stay alive.They were hungry, they were thirsty but they couldn’t stop if they had stopped they woud have been killed or died. While they were walking on the road to Turkey the father had a neck illness.

When they first came to Turkey they lived in Sevsen’s ( the mother) sister’s home.They tried to find a house for rent but

nobody wanted to give them their house because they were from Syria and they were refugees. So the hard days started for them in Turkey.

The father Muhammed Ali was an engineer in a factory in Syria but he couldn’t find any job in Turkey because his diploma wasn’t equal with Turkey’s universities’ diploma. So he couldn’t do his job and found daily works and earned money. His illness from his neck has started and till then he hasn’t worked enough.

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The family faced with economical problems so Two brothers Şahvan and Şehvan have started to work then. They went to high school in Syria but in Turkey they can’t go to school because they don’t know Turkish and they have to earn Money.Their friends from here are also from Syria because no one wants to be friend with them.

The mother Sevsen was a teacher in Syria. She misses her job very much whenever she see a school and students she cries. She

believes one day all these bad dreams will finish. There is big difference between the life in Syria and in Turkey she thinks. She loves Turkey but she’s very upset to doesn’t have enough neighbours.Their most of the relatives are in Europe, some of them died in the war and some of them are missing. Their children went to private school in Syria but now they have to go public schools however the family thinks Turkish education system is better than Syrian’s.

Their daughter Şirvan is 11 years old and she is in 5th grade. When she first went to school in Turkey she came to home every lunch breaks and cried because she didn’t know Turkish and nobody wanted to be friend with her.But now she knows Turkish like a mother tongue even she forgets to write in Arabic.

The youngest son Şehyar Halil is 5 years old and goes to kindergarten.He had hard times to getting used to school but now he is very good at being friends with everybody. Şehyar knows Turkish, Arabic and Kurdish.

The family don’t want to go back to Syria even the war stops because their children are getting educated here. They’re very happy to get citizenship in Turkey after 6 months.

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This is the story of three families from Syria

The Cuneyd Family Cüneyd family has been to Darıca since 2016. Before the war in Syria, their life was so good. They lived in Haleppo. They had house, car and shop. They didn’t have any economical problems.

When the war began they resisted for living there.They tried to continue their life and work conditions. But it was too hard to live with the bombs. One day when the father Abdülmunim was going to the shop he owned, he was shutted by the bomb. The bomb hit his car and he and his brother injured seriously. Abdülmunim lost his one eye and a finger in his left hand. The medical treatment lasted two years in Syria but the hospitals were also bombed and they couldn’t be treated enough. Then they tired to live in Syria whatever happens.By the way they lost all of their

wealth. The days were getting so difficult and they decided to leave their country.

Abdülmunim found a smuggler and came to Turkey by himself. He started to work and live in Gaziantep ( a city in the South part of

Turkey) Two years later all the family came to Turkey by illegal ways. But in Gaziantep there were not so many job opportunities so with the help of their relatives they came to Darıca. They’ve found a job near the electrician and started tol ive here.

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The family has 5 members. The father Abdülmunim is 41 years old and educated till 7th grade. The mother Aliya is 38 years old , the eldest son Muhammed is 15 years old. He went to school till 5th grade in Syria and now in Turkey he has to work. The

youngest son Yemin is 13 years old and goes to school in Darıca at 7th grade. The daughter Nesrin is 8 years old and goes to 2nd grade.

They’re satisfied with their living conditions in Turkey. But they’re very sorry about Muhammed because he can’t go to school but he wants to work because of his sisters.

History of the Syrian refugee crisis

2010 — Syria is a modern society built on the cradle of civilization.

Syria’s rich cultural history dates back more than 8,000 years.

It is an economically fast-growing lower-middle-income country, according to the World Bank. Agriculture, industry, tourism, and oil are economic mainstays. Healthcare and primary and secondary education are free. (Find out how the war has damaged Syria’s social and economic systems.)

President Bashar al Assad succeeds his father as ruler.

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2011 — The Syrian civil war begins.

2012 — Syrians flee bombing and repression.

Peaceful protests in southern cities in March are met with violent crackdowns

by Syrian security forces. Hopes of Arab Spring reforms are dashed by armed repression. Opposition groups organize but can’t seem to unite.

International sanctions and other attempts to pressure the government to moderate are futile; its actions are met with defiance.

Lebanon becomes a major destination for Syrian refugees.

Many hope they’ll return home soon.

Za’atari refugee camp opens in Jordan near the Syrian border.

Though designed as a temporary settlement, it became home to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees who have stayed for years.

August: Syria has committed war crimes.

2013 — Conflict increases as other countries join the fight.

March: Syrian refugees total 1 million.

April: Chemical attacks are confirmed. President Assad is accused of the attacks.

September: Syrian refugees total 2 million.

2014 — Humanitarian needs increase, but access to people in need becomes more difficult for aid groups.

April: Azraq camp opens in Jordan; 1 million refugees are now in Lebanon, estimated to be one-quarter of the country’s population. The large number of refugees puts a severe strain on the nation’s social systems.

June: ISIL declares a caliphate in Syria and Iraq’s occupied territory. Syrian refugees number 3 million in countries neighboring Syria; 100,000 people have reached Europe.

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2015 — Europe feels the pressure of Syrian refugees and migrants.

Hungary erects a border wall, then closes the border with Serbia to stop refugees from entering Europe.

The World Food Program cuts rations to refugees in Lebanon and Jordan due to a funding shortfall. Thousands of refugees arrive daily in Greece; 1 million refugees reach Europe during 2015

2016 — Syria is devastated by years of war.

February: U.S. and Russian delegates negotiate a temporary cessation of hostilities, sanctioned by the U.N., to send aid to hard-toreach populations in Syria.

June: Tens of thousands of Syrian refugees are trapped in no man’s land when Jordan closes the border after a car bombing; about 65,000 people remain there in 2018.

December: Civilians are caught in the crossfire as the Syrian government retakes Aleppo from rebels. A ceasefire to free them fails.

This is the story of three families from Syria

The Meryem’s story Meryem is a housewife but her husband is in Haleppo now. When she was in Syria she was a fashion designer and she had a boutique. They had had a good life in Syria before the war. When the war began a rocket crashed their house and they hardly survived and escaped from the house. They had a daugher and she was baby at that time. Her husband decided tos tay in Syria and

has tried to resist for the Esad’s regime. Meryem on her own with her baby escaped from Syria and came to Turkey. At first she stayed at refugees camp. She lost most of her relatives in the war. Some of them are still in Syria anda re fighting. Her sisters are in Istanbul and with the help of them Meryem came to Darıca and rent a house. One of her sister’s husband killed in the war and the other sister’s husband had been a doctor in Syria but he can’t work in Turkey. All the family members get economical help from the

Turkish goverment and also try to find some daily Works. They are refugees and they can’t be insured by employers so they can work in half prices.

They miss their country a lot. They watch Syrian channels everyday and try to remember their happy days in Syria.They want the war to stop as soon as possible and go back to their country.

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History of the Syrian refugee crisis 2017 — Syrians seek safety, stability.

March: More than 5 million people have fled conflict in Syria.

April: 58 people are killed in a suspected nerve gas attack.

July: A ceasefire is brokered at the G20 meeting for southwest Syria. Clashes are ongoing in Daraa, ar Raqqa, Homs, and Hama provinces and Deir ez-Zor city. More than 900,000 Syrians have been displaced this year.

2018 — Humanitarian aid is limited as the conflict continues.

Fighting continues, despite international agreements for deescalation.

March 15: Syria enters the eighth year of the Syrian civil war.

2019 — Refugees experience new hardships.

January: A winter storm batters Lebanon with snow, rain, heavy winds,

Humanitarian access is limited because and near-freezing temperatures. Rising of insecurity, and 2.9 million people remain in hard-to-reach areas where floods drive many refugees from aid is not supplied on a regular basis. informal tent settlements, especially in the Bekaa Valley.

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The project title is 'My Europe,Your Europe, Our Europe'. PROJECT 2016-1-BG01-KA219-023778 This is a Strategic Partnerships between eight schools, that will start on 1 December 2016 and will last 24 months.

The students directly involved in the project are between 8 and 18 years old.

The project coordinator is Tsar Simeon Veliki Secondary school from Bulgaria.

Partners in this Strategic partnership are: Istituto Comprensivo Melvin Jones Orazio Comes, Primary school Szkola Podstawowa im. St. Mikolajczyka w Jaszkowej Dolnej, Primary school Scoala Gimnaziala Pietroasa, Secondary school CEIP LUIS CERNUDA, Primary school Darica Namik Kemal Ilkokulu, Primary school DE LA SALLE COLLEGE SIXTH FORM, Secondary school Some of the schools have classes with intensive learning of English, ICT and science. Two schools- CEIP LUIS CERNUDA and De La Salle, never been previously involved in a similar project.

In 2015 the Declaration from Paris is promoting citizenship and the common values of freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination through education. Schools need to adapt and develop new ways of teaching and learning that reflect a changing world.

The project goal is to improve 'classical' education to 'inclusive' education by teaching European values, The Human Rights, and enhanced ICT and digital skills.

Our project objectives are: 1. Share and develop European good practices and tools how to change 'classical' education to 'inclusive' education.

2. Enhance students understanding of European values - freedom, tolerance and non-discrimination, through education.

3. To help for integration of migrant and refugee students.

3. Enhance students' and teachers' ICT and digital skills .

The project outputs are: • the comic strip ‘The Journey to The Twelve Stars‘ • Four table Eurogames • Eight online Eurogames • A movie 'Our Europe,Our Future'

My Europe. Your Europe. Our Europe PROJECT 2016-1-BG01-KA219-023778

Tsar Simeon Veliki School, Vidin, Bulgaria - coordinator Istituto Comprensivo Melvin Jones Orazio Comes, Monopoli, Italy

Szkola Podstawowa im. St. Mikolajczyka w Jaszkowej Dolnej, Poland Scoala Gimnaziala Pietroasa, Pietroasa, Romania CEIP LUIS CERNUDA, Castilleja de la Cuesta, Spain

Darica Namik Kemal Ilkokulu, Darica, Turkey DE LA SALLE COLLEGE SIXTH FORM, Birgu, Malta

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission.

This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.