Integration Centre Prague has organised two presentations on Syria and refugees for elementary school students as a part of the INTEGRA-day campaign series. The presentations took place on 11th of September in a cultural centre at Prague 22 as a part of local community event Day of Health and Equal Opportunities. The presentations were prepared in cooperation with Rober Netuka from Organisation for Aid to Refugees and Roz Somolíková Shero, who is a Kurdish woman originally from Syria and who has been working as an inter-cultural worker for the Arab-speaking community at ICP. The presentations were attended by 4 classes of 4th graders and 5th graders who learned interesting information about Syria, Roz´s home country, as well as her story of becoming a refugee and building a new life in the Czech Republic. As a part of the presentation, a short documentary was screened about Roz´s younger sister Silva and her experience with going to school and making friends in the Czech Republic.

As there are not many foreigners from the Middle East present at Prague 22, the children showed great excitement about meeting a Kurdish woman face to face and asked Roz various questions about her life in Syria, her refugee journey as well as her experience with integration into the Czech society.

As a part of the event, ICP also introduced and disseminated the latest outputs of the INTEGRA campaign – the PhotoVoice zines (and website), introducing selected PhotoVoice authors along with photos and comments expressing their views and experience with integration in Prague.