MR Foundation & Portuguese Counsel for Refugees
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Laurine, a German psychology student who is doing her internship at the CPR in Portugal. She asked me if I would be interested and could collaborate in some way with the center and I jumped at the opportunity.
The CPR is a center that has been hosting refugees for more than 30 years with different locations in Lisbon, providing help in different ways and fields. (please read more about the CPR here)
We then decided to organize a singing class at Music Room, which was led by one of our singing teachers Laura Osorio, the idea was to have a good time and to be able to engage in this class with tools everyone has, our voices. Only 6 people were able to come, since the center is out of town and to come to Music Room they used part of their budget, which is already limited. This being the first time, we understood that next time we must go to the center ourselves, since there are many more people there who would like to participate.
Given the incredibly difficult situation the people we got to meet are in, activities like these can be helpful in the integration progress and we ourselves can learn so much from these experiences and find ways that we can provide more help.
If you want to collaborate in any way, please contact catarina.martins@ cpr.pt (social and integration department) at the CPR. The general email is [email protected]
Find out more about MR Foundation here