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\nJadranka Milicevic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Jadranka Milicevic stands in front of 34 women from different conflict areas who have gathered in Stockholm to find out how storytelling can be a tool for outreach. They have all taken it in turns to tell a happy moment of their lives. Moments that has often meant overcoming hardship. The attention in the room is tangible.<\/p>\n
\u2013 We all need to collect stories for our work and tell them. But usually organisations don\u2019t have much knowledge on how to do it, says Jadranka who works for Cure, a feminist activist group in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n
\u00c5sa Carlman from Kvinna till Kvinna who has been coordinating the Storytelling seminar says that the seed for working on storytelling was the need for a stronger organisational memory:
\n\u2013 We have a lot of stories to tell but we are not so good at collecting them. Our stories leave with the persons who experienced them. Now we also know that when we are good storytellers it is easier to awake engagement, get funding, and strong results from our advocacy.<\/p>\n
The silence is spreading in the room while everyone is concentrating on how to develop their story.<\/p>\n
Between the readings the lively discussions move between whether the messenger is part of the message, how to break stereotypes and the demand for flesh and blood and happy endings.<\/p>\n
Last year Kvinna till Kvinna launched the report \u201cInsist Exist Resist Persist\u201d, built on stories from women human rights defenders from all over the world.<\/p>\n
\u2013 I use it very much when talking about women\u2019s security and how to support sisterhood. I can use the story from a Colombian woman, and a woman from Bosnia recognise her self and says \u2013 That\u2019s exactly how I felt!, says Jadranka, strong stories are really useful tools in our work. We still use the movie \u201cLilja Forever\u201d from 2002 in schools to prevent young Roma women from being victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n
This year Cure made a movie \u201cI am a Roma Woman\u201d on the positive stories of Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia.<\/p>\n
\u2013 But in media, still the stereotype of an old, poor, miserable Roma women is used as illustration, says Jadranka.<\/p>\n
An organisations life and work is built on stories \u2013 about how it all started, the vision and mission. Stories are not only the history and backbone of organisations, they can also inspire others to join and support the organisation. When it is put as a story it makes it easier for us to remember it. It becomes emotional facts. Ruba Simaan work with communication and fundraising at Al Tufula in Israel.<\/p>\n \u2013 Here I learnt a lot from how the others wrote and told their stories. I recognized their conflict situations. It could have been Palestine, says Ruba, Now I\u2019ve got tools to add situations as stories, to put some excitement in a report.<\/p>\n \u2013 I realised how important the personal perspective is to engage. At Cure our staff meetings often last a long time because there has to be room for our stories, says Jadranka.<\/p>\n \u2013 Every year Al Tufula has a retreat to plan for the next year and collect achievements from the past. Last year I made a slide show, and it got much more comments than a usual report. \u201cWhen did this happen?\u201d. Soon I will have a workshop with the women in the staff to develop our stories more.<\/p>\n Liv Fjellander<\/em> \u2013 It was a very happy moment. After two years of war, and a life in exile I was for the first time back in Sarajevo. For 48 hours I had a chance to see my husband Goran, my dad and some friends. I was happy and sad and scared and brave, because I had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fondacijacure.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ruba](\"http:\/\/www.kvinnatillkvinna.se\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/101027Ruba.jpg\")
\nRuba Simaan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
\nFreelance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"