Completed Projects

Music

So far, CMOR has produced a successful music and Movie project dubbed ‘Refugee Stories’ https://youtu.be/HZmksxXEckc?t=3]

 Story of Refugees. which contains different tracks, R&B, HIP HOP, and Reggae, two music Videos and 1000 copies of the CD plate, “Freiheit” by Wind-Jain Eagle entertainment. The project highlighted a true story of marginalization, enslavement and psychological depression at the refugee camp called Anker-zentrum Germany. The project was run through Farafina Institute. Where we operated as group.

Film

This project challenged us to even venture into a bigger movie project – ‘Voice of Refugees’ https://farafina-institute.org/causes/voifugee-voice-of-refugees/developed by Destiny Joshua Nduka, supported by Nasir Jones, Lawey Rufus and Rita Anyidoho, Tony Agutu. The movie demonstrates the experiences of refugees from Africa along the journey to Europe and their living situation in Europe. We are all from different countries: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and Cameroon.

Ongoing Projects

• CULTURE FOR REFUGEES

Culture is the pillar of life in fostering effective communication, integrity, integration in diversity and a dynamic tool of entertainment. Culture has its footprints in the happiness of life especially through art, language, history and other social spheres. Refugees and migration are both linked to culture both in practice and theory. The journey of immigrants and refugees links the stories to their daily lives to culture. Their over-riding philosophy of culture is that it benefits you and you credit it, culture is celebrated as the means of life.

Refugees have become part and parcel of culture as they seek to settle in other countries. Despite facing racism and other forms of discrimination they are still able to inspire and extend a sense of belonging to those with no identity. Refugee cultural identity continues to draw interest across various sectors and may grow to an interesting field of study.

Everyone has a right to be subject and relevant to self while staying accountable to the society. But having a refugee background continues to threaten this very right, separating people from their families, their culture, shuttering dreams and deny access to education. We practice various forms of art from dance, songs and theater performance on the project we have named “culture for refugees.

Aims of the project achieve; –

    -Raise awareness and share information on legal ways to migrate to Europe

   -Educate African kids from Europe especially Germany on African history and culture.

   -To share our true story of migration across the Sahara Desert to Europe and preserve this experience in history books

• VOICE OF REFUGEES

Through this project, refugees from African countries will build their capacities in expressing their experiences as refugees regarding their journey and life in Europe and perceptions on societal issues through creative arts (music, movie, storytelling). As a result, they will produce songs, stories, a motivational speech and a movie currently in production stages.

It as well features discussions on the art works with young people and policy makers. This will contribute to raising awareness of our situation, diminishing stereotypes, and fostering their participation in democratic life. 

Workshops within the project are developed and piloted to discuss refugee experiences, perceptions and related art work with young people. This provides the basis for to continuation of the workshops after the end of the project and become multipliers.

Aims of the project: –

– Facilitating opportunities and building capacities of refugees from African countries to engage and become empowered to participate in civic society and democratic life through cultural expression.

– Bringing together refugees from African countries with young people (young people in general and other young refugees) and policy makers at local and national level to enter into dialogue about issues concerning young refugees in Germany.

– Up scaling and professionalizing the previous work of Farafina Institute in the area of fostering democratic participation of African refugees in German society through arts.

• REFUGEE DIALOGUE SERIES

The project is an innovative way to engage and share refugee experiences through various online live session across our official social media platforms. The monthly series hosts various guest, activists, artist and experts in the fields of refugees and migration from across the world.

The sessions are majorly conversational in nature and may feature other detailed presentations show casing art, music, poetry, book reviews and related events.

Aims of the project: –

-To develop an online community that champions and relates to the story of refugees

-To Advertise and market the art works to a larger audience in the online space.

-To generate real time feedback, reactions and views from the social media platforms on the impact of the various CMOR projects.

-To foster potential partnerships and collaborations with individuals and organizations with mutual objects with CMOR.

• #SUPPORT REFUGEES AFRICA

The charity project supports refugee communities in Africa through donations to support education, access to food in refugee camps and improve quality of lives. The primary approach entails fundraising and collection of item donations from stakeholders, partners, friends and well-wishers for dispatch to refugee camps and homesteads in Africa. The pilot project targets urban refugees and is set to run in Nairobi KENYA

Aims of the project; –

• To support efforts towards access to education for refugees in Africa.
• To address limited access to food in refugee camps in Africa.
• To foster collaboration and consolidate partnerships for refugee support.
• To mobilize resources from stakeholders and well-wishers to support refugee initiatives in Africa.
• To establish the Africa-Europe refugee connection through mutual support.