Connecting People on the Move and European Residents
Walk of Shame Europe
Rehumanising connections at the borders
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Walks
Travel to the outer border of Europe. Meet like-minded people. Connect with People on the move. Spend time. Listen. Feel. Maybe friendships will grow. Moments of humanity. Moments of shame. Moments of hope.
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Talks
Every sunday evening 8.30 pm CET. Online talks with Europeans and people on the move. Connecting digitally to build friendships, to exchange information, to support each other. To unite where borders divide
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Meet Ups
Friendships grow from Walks & Talks. So we meet in different places in Europe. To exchange, connect, plan new walks, brainstorm about new plans. To stay human in digital times
Why the Walk of Shame?
European migration policies are causing systematic dehumanisation of people on the move at the borders of Europe. We, as Europeans, have failed to act according to the European values we have worked so hard to establish in the past. It dehumanises us all and brings great suffering to people on the move.
The Walk of Shame is born out of shame and frustration. Rather than focusing on emergency aid and political change (both very important), the Walk is intended to just go, connect and rehumanise some of the relationships between refugees and Europeans by walking, talking and simply spending time together.
How does it work?
What is not what we do or intend? It’s not about ‘feeling like a refugee’. We do respect the absolute difference between the situation of people on the move and Europeans. Nor is the Walk intended to ‘make the world know’, that’s a journalist's job. Since people on the move are prevented by borders and European violence to come to Europe, the least Europeans can do is to cross their borders and meet them. Will it change the situation? Probably not, but we have experienced how important it is for people on the move and Europeans to re humanise their relationships in this seemingly simple way
Send us an email if you are interested to join a next walk