Am Tue, 24 May 2005 17:47:40 +0200, schrieb Gerard Muller: > Dear all, > > Earlier on I wrote I always ask the sponsor to choose and introduce > a talking stick. > > While most do not find this an easy thing to do, most select > something which I could not have thought of, > and more often than not the words they introduce the talking stick > with are something which, well, you would like to have in > writing.................... > > No-one ever did, until last Saturday, and it is a beautiful example > I would like to share with you. > > The background: we have some 15.000 Somalians in Denmark, fugitives > from the war a decade ago. > Ninety percent are unemployed. Being foreigners, muslim and black > does not make it easier in Danish society to get a job. > > The question of the Open Space was: > "Many thousands Somalians would like to have a job soon - how do we > create that success ?" > > Participants: some hundred people. Somalians, employers, and others > somehow connected to the issue. > > And now for the talking stick, introduced by a Somali woman - here > are her words: > > > I have chosen to bring along a key to our closing round. > > Every single Somalian who was on his way to Denmark, had a dream We > all knew it would require hard work to realise that dream > > The dream was about getting a life with physical and social safety > > Among other things that means having a job to enable us to pay for > a place to live, > to have control over our lives, and have a sense of pride in > ourselves and thereby be respected in society. > > This key represents our dream. > > But it is as if this key does not fit to the keyhole we found here > in Denmark ........... > > However, Today we have created a new key. > The key to our dream, to our future. > > From Today onwards we will use this key to turn into the right > direction. > > We will turn it from left to right and will work hard to realise > the dream > > > Greetings from Denmark, > > > Gerard Muller > Open Space Institute Denmark > Phone: (+45) 21269621 > Mail: g...@openspace.dk > > > * > * > ========================================================== > osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To > subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, > view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: > http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html > > To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: > http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
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