Impact Report 2018 StreetwiZe • Mobile School

Follow-up greece • Ladies Union of Drama
29/05/2018 • 01/06/2018
Joke Verreth
Ladies Union of Drama
Drama / Greece
Ladies Union of Drama started working with
the mobile school in 2017. The team currently
organises three mobile school interventions
per week: two sessions at Roma camp Filippou
and one session at the Central Garden during
the ‘bazar’, since many Roma families from
cities around Drama travel to the city on that
day to sell different things. Their children work
as well, to be able to contribute to the family
income.
The last couple of months, the team noticed
that refugee children and their families started
working at the market too. The families live in
the refugee camp in Drama, which was set up
this year. The team is considering starting up
outreach sessions with the mobile school there
as well, should they get the permission to do so
from the city council.
Roma camp Filippou is divided into two rivaling
camps. The families of both sides do not
get along and their children are not allowed
to play together. Currently, the team organises
one mobile school session per week at both
sides. After one year, they have noticed some
improvements already, since some children
participate in both sessions. The future goal
is to put the mobile school in the middle of
the camp, to encourage the children to play
together and to encourage their families to
cooperate. Thanks to their continuous work,
the street educators have been able to build up
relationships of confidence with the children and
their families at the two locations. The team has
applied for a van, since this would allow them to
organise an additional street session per week at
a location outside of Drama.
During the follow-up training, we evaluated the
local mobile school project together with the
team and drew up a clear action plan to guarantee
the sustainability of the project and to
increase the impact on the streets. Although
there is a high turnover of volunteers, the core
team of five street educators has remained the
same since the start of the project, which makes
for a stable and durable way of working.
The team also invented games with the panels
they hardly ever use and they created their own
mobile school activities, adapted to the local context
and to their target groups, which received
positive feedback of the children during the testing
on the streets.
Additionally, the team discovered the Street
Business Toolkit panels, developed to address
business topics on the streets.
IMPACT
8 people trained: 5 staff & 3 volunteers
Increased motivation
Concrete action plan to increase social impact
Creativity of street work team enhanced
2 new educational activities, adapted to the local context
Knowledge of Street Business Toolkit
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