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Nov
20

Movie Screening: The Swimmers

  • Picciotto Common Room Genève, GE, 1202 Switzerland (map)
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Join us for an inspiring film screening intersecting with women’s rights, migration, and sports! ♀️🌊

We’re screening The Swimmers

※ The screening will be with English subtitles

🎬💜 The Swimmers is a movie about two Syrian sisters who flee their war-torn home in Damascus, swim for hours in choppy Mediterranean seas to reach Greece as asylum seekers before going on to compete at the Rio Olympic Games.

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Mar
19

Bake Sale for Palestine

On the 19th of March, the MENA initiative is organizing a bake sale fundraiser for children in Gaza. Dr. Salti is a Swiss Palestinian urologist who has recently evacuated Palestinian children from Gaza in order to give them medical treatment in Geneva. He is the founder of Children’s Right for Healthcare (CRH). Dr Salti has already carried out numerous missions, mainly in the West Bank and Gaza, but also in Madagascar. All of the funds raised at this bake sale with this fundraiser will be donated to CRH. This event is done in collaboration with the Migration Initiative, QISA, ASA, LANI and the HRCP Initiative.

🗓️Date: Tuesday 19th of March

⌛ 13:00-16:00

📍Petal 2 (in front of the cafeteria entrance)

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