Living as Neighbours

LWF Communications
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Living as Neighbours is a podcast featuring conversations with women and men who have provided friendship and support to migrants and asylum seekers. Travelling to some of Europe’s remotest borders, Dutch theologian and artist Rikko Voorberg, speaks with people who have opened their doors and have provided help to those seeking shelter and a safe place to live. ”Living as Neighbours” is an initiative of the Lutheran World Federation in collaboration with A World of Neighbours network. The project is supported by the German government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.

Episodes

  1. Marianna - Podlasie

    06/17/2024

    Marianna - Podlasie

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 7 Marianna, a psychologist and anthropologist, moved from Warsaw with her family to a house in the forest on the Polish-Belarussian border. In 2021 she began helping humanitarian workers who were arriving in the region to support thousands of asylum seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe.

    48 min
  2. Karol Wilczyński - Kraków

    06/10/2024

    Karol Wilczyński - Kraków

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 6 Alarmed by a rise in populism and anti-immigrant rhetoric in his country, Polish journalist and university lecturer Karol Wilczyński co-founded Salam Lab to give voice to marginalized people, promote reliable reporting and build bridges between different national and religious communities.

    35 min
  3. Sanela Lepirica - Sarajevo

    05/27/2024

    Sanela Lepirica - Sarajevo

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 4 Sanela was a teacher in 2018 when police in her northern Bosnian town of Cljuč began stopping buses to turn back migrants seeking to cross the border into Croatia. With her father, a policeman, she began providing food, water, blankets, shelter to help those stranded on the road in freezing temperatures. Now, together with some of those refugees and migrants, she runs a social integration center in the city of Sarajevo.

    41 min
  4. Thanasis - Lesbos

    05/20/2024

    Thanasis - Lesbos

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 3 A Greek citizen, Thanasis was driving in his car in 2014 when he first heard about migrant children, who survived a shipwreck, being pushed back into the sea by coastguards. He says he felt "a calling" and signed up as a volunteer to do sea rescue work in Lesbos. Nearly a decade on, he says "it is dangerous work, but we have to do what is right."

    42 min
  5. Philippa Kempson - Lesbos

    05/13/2024

    Philippa Kempson - Lesbos

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 2 Originally from Wales, Philippa moved to Greece with her husband and young daughter in search of a quiet life by the sea. But in 2014, on the way to school, she stopped to help a distressed woman and child who had just crossed from Turkey on a boat. She says "it is impossible to drive past people in need and do nothing."

    51 min
  6. Rouddy Kimpioka - Lesbos

    05/07/2024

    Rouddy Kimpioka - Lesbos

    Living as Neighbours: Episode 1 Originally from Congo, Rouddy was detained in Mória refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, before founding RAD (Refugee African Dance) Music International to help others find joy and solidarity amid the most challenging circumstances.

    1h 3m
  • 6 Episodes

About

Living as Neighbours is a podcast featuring conversations with women and men who have provided friendship and support to migrants and asylum seekers. Travelling to some of Europe’s remotest borders, Dutch theologian and artist Rikko Voorberg, speaks with people who have opened their doors and have provided help to those seeking shelter and a safe place to live. ”Living as Neighbours” is an initiative of the Lutheran World Federation in collaboration with A World of Neighbours network. The project is supported by the German government through the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit.

Information

  • Creator
    LWF Communications
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    6
  • Rating
    Clean
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