A video, a song and a mural are part of a creation of 78 young Colombians and Venezuelans that will be presented this Tuesday in Bogotá as part of a project promoted by the United Nations Agency for Refugees (UNHCR).
The initiative seeks to highlight the importance of refugees, whose world day is commemorated on June 20, the international organization reported today.
In what has to do with Colombia, 78 young people from 20 cities participated in the “A Colombia where we all dream” program, promoted by the “We are Panas Colombia” campaign, led in turn by UNHCR and the Mi Sangre Foundation, an organization co-founded by singer-songwriter Juanes and social entrepreneur Catalina Cook.
“We wanted to create a space in which young Colombians and Venezuelans met and could talk about their dreams, their plans, and their life project in Colombia,” said Rocío Castañeda, UNHCR’s public information officer, quoted in a statement.
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After several months of joint work, the young Colombians and Venezuelans created a video, a rap song called “Unidxs soñamos”, and the design of a mural that will be repeated in Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Barranquilla, Pasto (border area with Ecuador), Pamplona and Maicao, the latter two in areas bordering Venezuela.
The process included training workshops in which were the journalist Daniel Samper Ospina, from the School of YouTubers; JKE, from Medayork Records, and muralists Deimos, Enka and Dose.
The co-founder and director of the Mi Sangre Foundation, Catalina Cook, pointed out that the idea was to create a space in which young people were not only a topic of conversation but the “creators of that conversation”.
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Cook defined the workshops as “a safe place for dialogue, to experiment, meet others and co-create content between young Colombians and Venezuelans, to send a clear message: that in Colombia it is possible to dream together and together.”
He stressed that the outcome of the co-creation initiative showed that cultural and social integration can be promoted in many ways.
“When you learn and share with other people, it is changing the way we think. For me, participating in ‘Unidxs Soñamos’ was a transformation, “said Yesid Sánchez, one of the 78 young participants.
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According to figures from Migración Colombia, until January 31 there were 1,742,927 Venezuelan migrants in the country.
