Moguts per seva passed by football and with the will to promote inclusion, a group of young migrants will found an embryonic project in Barcelona in 2005 Football Club Darna. A proposal that, both in the country of the times, has grown to become a reference ofsocial integration through sports.
Ara, this soccer club has become the protagonist of the first part of the collaborative project Goals for Changecreate films for photojournalists and documentary filmmakers Ophelia de Pablo Yo Javier Zurita The documentary photo-video awards the World Press Photo 2021 Pablo Tosco. Boost for scholarship Art for Change from the La Caixa Foundation I am the support of Canon Europeis a large initiative that aims to provide eines audiovisual artists for young migrants why puguin narrate the six own realities.
“We will change the very negative image of the migrants that appears in the communication media”
“We will change the very negative image of migrants that appears at the communication mitjans,” says de Pablo at the inauguration of the exhibition, which will tour different Spanish cities. The Nau Bostik ―social and cultural space of community management in Barcelona― will open the ports in these dimensions to show the fullness of a project that works to create a new narrative about migration i be an “engine” of anti-racist social change.
A darrere life of each image
Through photographs, videos and texts, young migrants are converted into els chroniclers of the six own vinesrevertint to the usual roles. “For us it is very important to participate in this project that we know. All of us have a story and we will demonstrate that immigrants do not come to commit crimes, they come to form a family and a new life,” he explains to Public Soufiane El Ahmadicaptain of the Darna Football Club.
The origin of Goals for Change comes from the project Futbol per a l’Esperança a Sud-àfrica, by Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita
Soufiane will arrive in Spain fa vuit anys from Tangierwill study to be a nursing assistant and work as an intercultural mediator at the Foundation for an inclusive society Bayt al-Thaqafa. On the wall are the six photographs, there is one that draws attention to simplicity: it is possible to see a command of television, a coffee with coffee and some cookies. At first glance it could look like a qualsevol berenar, but it is a tract of some dolços that had been carried from the house to the Morocco after visiting the family. “It’s a very symbolic photo for Soufiane,” Zurita said.
For the photojournalist, this proposal allows you to “learn more” as well as others, in order to change the initial proposal of Goals for Change. “At first we will teach them how to serve in the chambers, we have a more technical intention, but at the same time we will realize that it was not the way. There was more spontaneous narrative“, he concluded.
How is ‘Goals For Change’ going?
The origin of Goals for Change sorgeix del projecte Soccer for Esperança to South Africa, by Ofelia de Pablo and Javier Zurita, with the support of Arab House Yo Africa House. “We are going to explain five stories of young migrants in different soccer teams. There we are going to remember that we are always missing out on the ones who comptàvem the six lives and, for this reason, we are going to decide to go one more country further because they will be able to see themselves,” says the photojournalist.
The final objective is to generate debate and train stereotypes, to donate the opportunity to the young migrants of the Futbol Club Darna who are converted into “dynamitzers of consciousness and agents of the canvi d’una societat moltes vegades misinformed“.
Goals for Change It will continue to develop in different parts of Spain and will add others that will show a new map of migrations created by its protagonists.
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