For 18 months in 2018 and 2019, a brightly\npainted minibus toured the Swedish counties of Stockholm and Gothenburg,\noffering cultural activities focussed on well-being to newly arrived asylum\nseekers. The project was coordinated by IofC Sweden and funded by the county\nauthorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2018, 21,502 people applied for asylum in\nSweden: a third of them women. But most efforts to help people settle and\nintegrate have mostly attracted men. The IofC project focused on women<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project offered study circles, a Peace and Culture Caf\u00e9 and a wide range of cultural activities. It helped to organize three festivals, including the Light in the Darkness festival in Skeppsholmen<\/a>, near Stockholm, in autumn 2019. \u2018It’s about finding a home in yourself and in the new place you end up, becoming a light carrier for yourself as well as others,\u2019 said its initiator, Nik Dee-Dahlstr\u00f6m of IofC Sweden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In all about 800 asylum seekers have taken part in the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n For 18 months in 2018 and 2019, a brightly painted minibus toured the Swedish counties of Stockholm and Gothenburg, offering cultural activities focussed on well-being to newly arrived asylum seekers. The project was coordinated by IofC Sweden and funded by the county authorities. In 2018, 21,502 people applied for asylum in Sweden: a third of… Read More »Sweden<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.annualreport.iofc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}