{"id":2285,"date":"2020-03-10T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/?p=2285"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:55:57","slug":"align-is-hosting-a-workshop-for-refuges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/2020\/align-is-hosting-a-workshop-for-refuges\/","title":{"rendered":"ALiGN is Hosting a Workshop for Refuges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        ALiGN is Hosting a Workshop for Refuges\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Kakuma-image-240x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Kakuma-image-240x124.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Kakuma-image-160x83.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Kakuma-image-200x103.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/Kakuma-image.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/56bb369c9.pdf\">coverage of refugees<\/a> reveals that less than a quarter of all news articles on migration or refugee issues mention a refugee or migrant, and far fewer directly quote them. <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/people\/kathy-dobson\/\">Kathy Dobson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/people\/ghadah-alrasheed\/\">Ghadah Alrasheed<\/a>, Interim co-Directors of ALiGN Media Lab, became more aware of this issue after they visited Nairobi last year and met with groups of refugees and saw how far they were far from the stereotype of \u201chelpless victims\u201d propagated by media. The refugees who Ghadah and Kathy met were an impressive group of people, very active in their communities and generously contributing to their host community. That is the reason the ALiGN Media Lab will be hosting a workshop this week as part of a series on media training. The workshop,\u201cStorytelling with Impact\u201d, will bring together a group of refugees from Kakuma Camp in Kenya to discuss how to pitch and amplify their voices, experiences and complelling stories to mainstream media. The workshop will also include training on how to share these stories across multiple digital forms. The participants from&nbsp; Kakuma Camp are from different parts of the world, including Somalia, Burundi, and Congo. Through this collaboration, Ghadah and Kathy hope to share practical media strategies with the refugees to amplify their voices, gain a deeper understanding of what makes stories stand out, and thus deepen the coverage of their important issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research on the coverage of refugees reveals that less than a quarter of all news articles on migration or refugee issues mention a refugee or migrant, and far fewer directly quote them. Kathy Dobson and Ghadah Alrasheed, Interim co-Directors of ALiGN Media Lab, became more aware of this issue after they visited Nairobi last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[235,45,1,215],"tags":[345,27,349,350,351,347,348,335,346,219],"class_list":["post-2285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collaborations","category-commentary","category-news","category-workshop","tag-align-media-lab","tag-digital-media","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-kakuma-camp","tag-kenya","tag-mainstream-media","tag-media-training","tag-nairobi","tag-refugees","tag-workshop"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/align\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}