Educational video on corona vaccination by refugees for refugees goes online!

The "Friends of Refugee Solidarity in SI (Solidarity International)" expressly welcomes the fact that there is finally a free vaccination offer in Germany for residents and employees in the refugee camps. However, the public debate about the pros and cons of one or the other vaccine, as well as horror reports about individual deaths after a vaccination, has massively promoted a massive spread of "vaccination warnings" in various social networks of the refugees, so that this vaccination offer is now being used by many refugees is rejected. Distrust and fear of being used as guinea pigs or being injected with a “bad” vaccine due to racism lead to great uncertainty. In some places, vaccination acceptance is still in the low double-digit range.

The Circle of Friends is therefore going online with an educational video on corona vaccination: Refugees for refugees, with medical information and personal testimonials from vaccinated people, point out the great importance of a high vaccination rate for combating the pandemic. Alassa Mfouapon, refugee activist from Cameroon and spokesman for the nationwide circle of friends: “We hope that it will spread widely and will do everything we can to ensure that refugees can be vaccinated. Our members also help each other to organize vaccination appointments. We also demand that vaccination squads go to the collective accommodation and vaccinate unbureaucratically on site". The video film is intended to spread primarily through the refugees' networks and contacts with one another. Link to the educational video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvXGIAPksoU

The Circle of Friends of Refugee Solidarity has been committed to providing refugees with the necessary protection since the beginning of the Corona pandemic: "We demand the end of mass accommodation in camps that make this protection impossible. The suggestion to house refugees in empty hotels during the pandemic was ignored! The willingness of accommodation facilities to organize this was rejected! We criticized the governments, which considered it sufficient to protect them from the virus by isolating refugees in camps, sometimes for weeks and months. The result of the mass accommodation and cramped conditions - not only for refugees - was and is the repeated emergence of hotspots.

This is particularly bitter in the camps on Europe's external borders, such as the Kara Tepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which was set up on former military grounds after the fire in Moria. The local self-help organization of camp residents and Greek islanders "OXI - Lesvos resists Corona", partner organization of "Solidarity International", is now massively restricted in its activities due to the acute corona outbreak!" Alassa Mfouapon regrets.

More information on our website: https://freunde-fluechtlingssolidaritaet.org

English:

Educational video on Corona vaccination by refugees for refugees goes online!

The "Circle of Friends of Refugee Solidarity in SI (Solidarity International)" expressly welcomes the fact that there is now finally a free vaccination offer in Germany also for residents and workers in refugee camps. However, the public debate about the pros and cons of one vaccine or another, as well as horror reports about individual deaths after vaccination, has massively encouraged a spread of "vaccination warnings" in various refugee social networks, so that this vaccination offer is now rejected by many refugees. Mistrust and fear of being used as guinea pigs or being injected with a "bad" vaccine out of racism led to great uncertainty. In some places, vaccination acceptance is still in the low double-digit range.

The Circle of Friends is therefore going online with an educational video on the Corona vaccination: By refugees for refugees, with medical information and personal testimonies from vaccinated people, it points out the great importance of a high vaccination rate for fighting the pandemic. Alassa Mfouapon, refugee activist from Cameroon and spokesperson for the nationwide Circle of Friends, says: "We hope that the campaign will be widely disseminated and will do everything in our power to ensure that refugees are vaccinated. Our members also help each other organize vaccination appointments. We are also calling for vaccination teams to go to the collective accommodation and vaccinate on site without red tape." The video film should spread mainly through the refugees' networks and contacts with each other. The link to educational video:

Since the beginning of the Corona pandemic, the Friends of Refugee Solidarity has been committed to providing refugees with the necessary protection: "We demand the dissolution of mass accommodation in camps, which make this protection impossible. The proposal to house refugees in empty hotels during the pandemic was ignored! The willingness of accommodation facilities to organize this was rejected! We criticized governments who considered it sufficient to isolate refugees in camps, sometimes for weeks and months, to protect them from the virus. The result of mass accommodation and cramped conditions - not only for refugees - was and is the repeated emergence of hotspots.

This is particularly bitter in the camps at Europe's external borders, such as the Kara Tepe camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, which was built on former military land after the fire in Moria. The self-help organization of camp residents and Greek islanders there, "OXI - Lesvos resists Corona", partner organization of "Solidarity International", is now massively restricted in its activities due to the acute Corona outbreak!" regrets Alassa Mfouapon.

More information on our homepage: https://freunde-fluechtlingssolidaritaet.org

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