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ACTIVITIES
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Consciousness raising: Workshops and training programmes, exhibitions, presentations, publications, participation in national and international events in collaboration with prison services and aid to victims, etc.
- library (collection of reference works, film materials, etc.)
- books ( Hotel Prison and The Cellars of Congo ) and lectures by Jan De Cock
- the project known as ‘Give Prisoners a Face' (in Dutch, ‘Geef Gevangenen een Gezicht', or GGG)
Via a social-artistic project (in which victims and offenders join others in creating masks), we have sought to explore the duality of freedom and incarceration. The exhibition entitled “Give Prisoners a Face" (“Geef Gevangenen een Gezicht”), held in early 2007, was an important first initiative undertaken jointly with other field workers both within and without prison walls.
Talks and debates were organised on the occasion of the exhibit, with a view to giving the general public wider insight into the world behind bars.
Specific activities:
- sale of the book In the Cellars of Congo (published in Dutch only)
Revenues from sales are used entirely for a prison project in Congo.
- talks
- Benefit events (solidarity evening, garden party, sponsored walks, concerts, carolling, musical, auctions, etc.)
- gifts, donations, bequests, etc
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veiling 23/2/08 galerij Campo & Campo te Berchem.
- Charitable activities:
- material support to prisoners around the world
- visits to (ex-)detainees, victims and their families
- letter-writing campaigns between people within and without prison walls
- foot reflexology for women in the Antwerp prison
- participation in discussion evenings with prisoners, victims and caregivers
- tracing a path towards rehabilitation