Dutch filmmaker Sam van Zoest has made a documentary about one of the founders of our organisation, Bogdan Andrei.
An SV alumnus himself, Sam met Bogdan when he first volunteered in March 2019. When Bogdan announced he would retire from full-time overseeing the NGO and move back to the mainland, Sam realised the tremendous obstacles that were awaiting Bogdan.
Read MoreThe 8th of March is a day to acknowledge women’s achievements in the world, for promoting awareness & change towards women’s rights, gender equality, and against SGBV. Needless to say, just one day is not enough. Nor just one week, or just one month. But it is an occasion to raise and amplify voices.
Read MoreArticle by Theo Jackson
Applying an intersectional lens to the refugee experience shows us that, along with racism, refugees may be further marginalised by patriarchal, heteronormative and ablist systems. Although refugees may appear as a uniformly vulnerable group, it is crucial that we understand how overlapping power structures create important differences in experiences and needs, within an overall vulnerable population.
