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Sofa Solution Two youth hitchhiking from Ankara to Vienna with a sofa as their burden to raise money to finance the Kecioren school of refugees' children in Ankara.

Europe is in fear. Some are afraid of an uncertain future, some are afraid of terrorism, some are afraid of Europe going all-nazi again. These disputes hold no value. It serves no purpose in solving the refugee crisis. Less talk, more action, please. We, Carla and Heli have taken up to spread awareness of one solution that has the power to resolve the situation - education. Our goal is to raise fu

nds for Keciören refugees' school in Ankara, Turkey. It's a beginning. We aim to inspire other communities in Europe to follow Kecioren's initiative, to follow Norway and provide these people education. They need it. We need it. We want to include UNICEF, Amnesty International, WHO, OXFAM, UN, Red Cross and many more to focus on solutions. We want to inspire you to start your own local initiative in the city you live. Together we can make a change. Why the SOFA, you ask? It's a burden to travel with something that normally is rarely moved. Like most people, leaving home is a rare occasion, often very emotional. Leaving for good can be painful. It's a big change and we, people need to feel secure. Sometimes the security is in our memories, sometimes it's an emotional bond. The sofa represents the struggle the refugees have gone through travelling. It is their memories, their families left behind or lost and the fear of unknowing what is yet to come. It is something that holds them back. It's a burden. Why Building Bridges For Refugee Children was born?
- To give access to education to children who cannot afford the local transport to attend a proper school;
- To integrate these children and their families in Turkish society;
- To prevent children from begging, entering criminality and being exploited in child labor. We hitchhike from Ankara, Turkey to Vienna, Austria, passing by 25 locations to hold local community meetups. We have taken a month for it. it's going to be an emotional roller-coaster. All for education.

Hey people!It's been a while since the trip ended. What, do you think, could be done next to help provide education to t...
11/01/2017

Hey people!

It's been a while since the trip ended. What, do you think, could be done next to help provide education to the lost generation?
In Turkey, Syrian children are a more favourable workforce than their parents. This must end.
Here we ask: What steps can we all take to make it stop?

Heli looks back to the journey and concludes what it meant for her.
18/12/2016

Heli looks back to the journey and concludes what it meant for her.

It’s 9am on the 25th of July and I have arrived at Kızılay, the city centre of Ankara, the feared capital of Turkey. The coup was in full HD 3D live mode just a week ago. Most people who had …

You cannot live here, only exist.
24/10/2016

You cannot live here, only exist.

Where are the refugees from Idomeni? What happened after the eviction of one of the largest refugee camps in Europe since WWII. What is the current situation in Greece?

Dear friends, The Sofa Solution project is finished, we have reached back to our homelands, the sofa is sold and some mi...
05/09/2016

Dear friends,
The Sofa Solution project is finished, we have reached back to our homelands, the sofa is sold and some minds have changed.
We want to thank all the organisations and people who helped us organize the events, all those some-one-hundred drivers without whom we'd still be either dehydrated, sunburned or frozen, stuck in the middle of nowhere. So big thanks again to Epeka Slovenia, Centar E8 - Vranje, Legis, Centrul de Voluntariat Timisoara, StudentPlus Timisoara, Youth for Equality, Szubjektiv, Artemisszió Alapítvány, and, of course, System and Generation Association - S&G and Keçiören Belediyesi.
We thank again our sponsors Puskupusku, Kreit, Littlebit, and Microsoft.
We collected 250$, after indiegogo taxes 221$ went for the Building Bridges for Refugee Children kids' study support materials. It is not a lot, but it is certainly of big help and we thank our donors Kassa Small, Erin Traeger, Murat Caliskan and the anonymous passer-by-s.
We had discussions about that topic with a couple hundred people, we witnessed the change of opinion from offensive to supportive of one individual. Most people, as it turns out, are push-pull: they support the louder idea. They were highly agreeable, which gives us hope that positive media coverage could boost people's support.
Now it's time to persuade big organisations to support the kid's mental development, regardless of whether they want to stay in a country or not. Kids are kids, kids need education.
We hope you enjoyed our insta pics and the thread here.

Stay tuned for the summary film!

26/08/2016

Na zofi je mogoče odlično lenariti, z njo pa je tudi mogoče na domiseln način opozoriti na resne družbene pojave. To že nekaj tednov počneta študentki Carla Lostrangio iz Italije in Heli Aomets iz Estonije. Ko b***a končali projekt Sofa Solution, b***a imeli za seboj 34 dni potovanja z avtoštopom, k...

26/08/2016

Na zofi je mogoče odlično lenariti, z njo pa je tudi mogoče na zanimiv način opozoriti na resne družbene pojave. To že nekaj tednov počneta študentki Carla iz Italije in Heli iz Estonije. Ko b***a končali projekt Sofa Solution, b***a imeli za seboj 34 dni potovanja z avtoštopom, ki sta ga začeli v t...

"Chaotic scenes recently at the Italian-French border when 200 people attempting to swim to France were turned back and ...
24/08/2016

"Chaotic scenes recently at the Italian-French border when 200 people attempting to swim to France were turned back and deported to southern Italy."

Borders cannot avoid the exode. People leave and come to our countries for a reason.

Austrian police say there has been a “creeping rise” in the number of migrants and asylum seekers attempting to cross into the country from Italy.

Back in Ankara!
24/08/2016

Back in Ankara!

Our great event in Budapest on the Liberty Bridge.
24/08/2016

Our great event in Budapest on the Liberty Bridge.

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Katie Dimmer, Save the Children’s Director of Operations in Greece, said: “Families who have fled violence and death in ...
23/08/2016

Katie Dimmer, Save the Children’s Director of Operations in Greece, said: “Families who have fled violence and death in their homeland continue to live in fear and do not feel safe.

Why don't we offer real solutions for people coming in Europe? We would avoid so many other cases like this one.

A four-year-old refugee has allegedly been r***d by an Afghan man at a shelter for asylum seekers in Germany. The Iraqi boy was living with his family among 600 other migrants at the centre in Boostedt, north of Hamburg, when he was assaulted. His father told Kiel District Court his eight-year-old s...

Read this interesting research to know in details about numbers and effects in Europe.
23/08/2016

Read this interesting research to know in details about numbers and effects in Europe.

The recent wave of asylum seekers to 28 EU countries, Norway and Switzerland accounts for one-in-ten asylum applications to the region since 1985.

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