1. On the Move

2. Home

3. It is night.

4. You are about to go on a journey into the unknown.

5. You don’t know what the future will hold.

6. You have to leave your home.

7. You know you may never be able to return.

8. War has broken out in your country.

9. Syrian refugees
Photo credit: .Nick Harrop CAFOD
Elderly people are eating less so younger members of the family can eat better meals
Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis

10. You can hear gunfire.

11. The fighting is nearby.

12. You must leave quickly.

13. It is unsafe for you to stay where you are.

14. Trucks are coming to take your family to the coast.

15. You will then look for a boat to take you to safety.

16. There is no time to waste.

17. You must move quickly.

18. TASK ONE:  The first thing each of you must do is pack a bag for your journey.
In your bag you may carry no more than six items.
Don’t forget: Your items might be heavy to carry or difficult to look after.
Think carefully about what you really need to take. 
Young children or elderly people might not be able to carry certain items.
Look at the belongings list and choose your items.
You have 10 minutes to find the six things that you want to take, or to draw them on your cards.
Discuss this with the rest of your family. 

19. Fleeing

20. The truck has arrived.

21. You have packed only what you can carry.

22. Take one last look at your home.

23. You are leaving friends behind.

24. Thai Myanmar border
Photo credit: Oliver White / Caritas Australia
Students in Myanmar.
Photo credit: Oliver White / Caritas Australia

25. There is nothing you can do.

26. You pray they will be safe.

27. You cannot get comfortable in the truck.

28. The driver is in a hurry to get you to safety.

29. They speed along.

30. They almost lose control going around a corner.

31. The brakes screech.

32. A bag that belongs to your parent flies out of the truck.

33. The driver cannot hear you shouting to stop.

34. The bag is left far behind.

35. TASK TWO: Your parent has lost everything
TASK TWO: Your parent has lost everything. Help them make up for their loss by giving them something from your bag.
They can take one thing from each family member.
You have 2 minutes to do this.
What do you have left?
Discuss this with the rest of your family.

36. Tough mountain ranges

37. The truck has to climb a steep mountain.

38. It gets slower and slower and a strange choking noise comes from the engine.

39. You wonder if this truck will ever get you to the coast.

40. Somalia
Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services/ Laura Sheahan
Somali refugees at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaic
Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services / Laura Sheahan

41. You hear a mighty bang.

42. The truck grinds to a halt.

43. The truck’s engine is broken and cannot be fixed.

44. You must continue the journey on foot.

45. You find that your bag is too heavy to carry.

46. TASK THREE: Your bag is too heavy to carry
TASK THREE: Your bag is too heavy to carry. Make it lighter by taking out the heaviest item.
You have 2 minutes to decide which item and to leave it behind.
What do you have left?

47. Journey on Foot

48. You struggle on but find it harder to keep going.

49. It is a hot day and the sun is beating down.

50. There has been no rain for more than a year.

51. The roads are hard, full of holes and difficult to walk on.

52. The youngest member of your family falls and hurts their leg.

53. Thai Myanmar border PC 2012
Photo credit: Oliver White / Caritas Australia
Photo credit: Oliver White / Caritas Australia

54. They cannot go on without help.

55. Two of you will have to carry them.

56. TASK FOUR: These three people can no longer carry their bags
TASK FOUR: These three people can no longer carry their bags. The rest of the family will have to help carry their belongings.
Remember that no one may carry more than six items
Discuss with your family. 
You have 3 minutes to do this. 
Some things will have to be left behind.
What do you have left? 

57. At last you can see the sea.

58. You have reached the coast.

59. Splitting Up

60. The fishing boats are waiting in the bay.

61. Unfortunately, the boats are very small.

62. None can take more than four people.

63. Your family must split up.

64. Mali
Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services
Ayorou, refugee camp, Tillbery, Niger
Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services

65. This is very hard.

66. You become very upset.

67. You want to stay together.

68. You are frightened of what might happen.

69. You have no choice.

70. TASK FIVE: Your family must split up into groups of four.
Who will you go with?
You have 2 minutes to sort out your groups.

71. The Fishing Boat

72. They demand payment.

73. You have no money.

74. They agree to let you on board…

75. in exchange for the most valuable thing in your bag.

76. The boat is leaving in 4 minutes.

77. You must decide what you will give them.

78. TASK SIX: The boat is very small and they now say that you have too much luggage.
No one may carry more than two things.
You have 4 minutes.
What do you have left?
Talk with the others in your family and decide what can be shared and what must be left behind.

79. The boat sets sail.

80. The sea is rough and stormy.

81. The boat starts to leak and sea water floods in.

82. Turkey
Photo credit: CAFOD Ben White
Syrian refugees exit Turkey
Photo credit: CAFOD/ Ben White

83. TASK SEVEN: You manage to save your bag, but it is soaking wet and anything that could be damaged by water is ruined.
You have 2 minutes to check the belongings in your bag and throw away anything that is spoiled.
What do you have left?

84. At last you can see land.

85. It has been a terrible journey!

86. You are anxious to find out what has happened to the others in your family.

87. You hope they have arrived safely too.

88. What will happen now?

89. Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis/ CLMC J. Khoury

90. You don’t know but you hope for peace and safety.

91. Pause to reflect Debrief questions:
There are several questions that could be used to scaffold the feedback from groups:
Did you bring the right things?
Did you think about food and water?
How did you feel when you had to give up your belongings?
What was the most difficult part of the journey?
How did you feel about what was happening to you?
How did you feel when your family had to separate?
How did you feel at the end of the journey?
How might it feel to be a real refugee?
The debrief can happen in a variety of ways:
* Give a different question to each group and 5 minutes to answer it before feeding back to the whole group.
* Ask for verbal feedback from a few questions and generate discussion between groups.
* Choose 2 or 3 questions and give to each group, allowing time to discuss and then feedback.
The outcomes of these questions, which you choose to use, and the method will be dependent on the group you have and the age range that they are in.

92. FACTS There are many reasons people are forced to flee their homes:
War
Violence
Persecution
Natural disasters
Famine
Fear

93. A person uprooted by conflict will remain displaced for an average of 17 years.
UNHCR, 20 June 2014: [Accessed 6 April 2018]
Photo credit: Paul Jeffrey / ACT-Caritas

94. More than 22.5 million people around the world have been forced to flee their home and their country.
Figures from UNHCR: [Accessed 4 April 2018]
22.5 million people were refugees at end This figure includes 17.2 million under UNHCR’s mandate and 5.3 million Palestinian refugees registered by UNRWA.
“By the end of 2016, 65.6 million individuals were forcibly displaced worldwide as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations. That was an increase of 300,000 people over the previous year, and the world’s forcibly displaced population remained at a record high.”
Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis

95. It is also estimated that there are more than 40
It is also estimated that there are more than 40.3 million internally displaced people in the world.
Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre of the Norwegian Refugee Council. (Figures from UNHCR Global Trends: Forced displacement in 2016 report)
[accessed 6 April 2018]
Photo credit: Caritas Australia

96. 10 million people are considered ‘stateless’:
that is, they have no country that recognises them as citizens.
[Accessed 4 April 2018]
Photo credit: Oliver White / Caritas Australia

97. 10.3 million people were newly displaced by war or persecution in 2016:
That is the equivalent of 20 people being forced to flee their home every minute of 2016
Photo credit: Zoe Corden/ CAFOD
[Accessed 4 April 2018]
The number of new displacements was equivalent to 20 people being forced to flee their homes every minute of 2016.
A Rohingya family receive food aid from Caritas Bangladesh. More than 620,000 people are now estimated to have fled to Bangladesh, escaping violence in Rakhine State in neighbouring Myanmar. CAFOD's local Church partner, Caritas Bangladesh, is responding to the refugee crisis by providing emergency aid to those in need.
Photo credit: Zoe Corden/ CAFOD

98. Imagine if it were YOU.

99. What happens next? Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis
Refugees' belongings on a beach

100. Photo credit: Ben White/CAFOD
Refugees getting off the boat.
What is happening here?
How do we feel about this situation?

101. Photo credit: Mahmud Rahman/ CRS/ Caritas Bangladesh
Thangkhali Camp in Bangladesh, where, as of end of October 2017, more than 28,000 refugees from Myanmar had arrived. Thankgkali is just one part of a sprawling refugee camp that has formed since August 2017 alone, hosting more than 600,000 newly arrived, and often traumatised, refugees from Myanmar.


What is happening here?
Why are people in tents?
How do we feel about this situation?

102. Rescue ship brings 606 migrants to Italy Migrants missing after
Italian Navy rescue
migrants from dinghy
Migrants missing after
boat capsizes
Migrants found dead off Lanzarote shore
Spain rescues 600
migrants in a day
Rescue ship brings
606 migrants to Italy
How do these newspaper headlines make you feel?
At least 31 dead as boat
sinks off Libya

103. We ourselves need to see, and then to enable others to see, that migrants and refugees do not only represent a problem to be solved, but are brothers and sisters to be welcomed, respected and loved.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, “Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (2014)”. (Written on 5 August 2013).
What is Pope Francis asking us to do?

104. Every stranger who knocks at our door is an opportunity for an encounter with Jesus Christ, who identifies with the welcomed and rejected strangers of every age.
Pope Francis, referring to Matthew 25:25-43
Pope Francis, “Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (2018)”. (Written on 14 January 2018).
What is Pope Francis asking us to do?

105. Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, and above all for being more.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, “Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (2014)”. (Written on 5 August 2013).
What is Pope Francis asking us to do?

106. We must not be taken aback by their numbers, but rather view them as persons, seeing their faces and listening to their stories, trying to respond as best we can to their situation.
Pope Francis
Pope Francis, Visit to the Joint Session of the United States Congress, Address of the Holy Father, 24 September 2015.
What is Pope Francis asking us to do?

107. Pope Francis, Twitter, 18 October 2014
What is Pope Francis asking us to do?

108. As a group, using some or all of the resources provided, complete one or more of these activites:
Write a prayer for people facing this sort of journey today.
Write a poem to express feelings and experiences that the people in may be experiencing.
Write five words that best describe your thoughts and feelings about this situation.
Write a newspaper headline and/ or story for one of the resources. What important message would you want to give to readers?
Create the story that one of the headlines suggests. What key message would you want to make readers aware of?

109. How can we make a difference?
Find out about CAFOD’s latest campaign. Make a difference by adding your voice and telling others!
Please remember our sisters and brothers around the world in your prayers.
How might you raise money to make a difference to the lives of those seeking safety?

110. Organise a Share the journey walk: We’re aiming to walk 24,900 miles around the world in solidarity with refugees.

111. Help us walk 24,900 miles! Why? To pray
1. Organise a walk in your school.
2. Add the miles you walk to our grand total from across England and Wales. You can follow our progress on the online totaliser.
3. Follow your progress around the world at cafod.org.uk/sharethejourney
4. Share your journey with us online using #ShareJourney
Why?
To pray
To stand together (in solidarity) with refugees
To make our voices louder so that governments will hear.

112. For fundraising ideas, visit cafod.org.uk/secondary
CAFOD has a number of World Gifts that can support people seeking refuge around the world. Why not consider organising a fundraising event to buy an emergency World Gift?
For fundraising ideas, visit cafod.org.uk/secondary

113. Prayer for Refugees
(Adapted from Pope Francis’ message for the World day of migrants and refugees, 2014)
Pope Francis, “Message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees (2014)”. (Written on 5 August 2013).

114. We pray that refugees never lose hope of a better future.
God of Hope,
We pray that refugees never lose hope of a better future.
Sudan
Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis

115. We pray that refugees will be welcomed.
North Kenya drought
Photo credit: Joseph Mirgichan / Caritas Australia
We pray that refugees will be welcomed.

116. We pray that refugees will experience solidarity and the warmth of friendship.
Niger
Photo credit: François Therrin

117. Syrian refugees
Photo credit: Catholic Relief Services
We pray for those devoting their lives to helping refugees, that they will find strength in your love.

118. Thai Myanmar border
Photo credit: Oliver White/ Caritas Australia
We pray for ourselves, that we will think of Jesus when we think about or meet refugees.

119. We pray for justice and peace in our world.
Syrian refugees
Photo credit: Caritas Internationalis
We pray for justice and peace in our world.
Amen.

120. With thanks to Caritas Australia
Thank you
With thanks to Caritas Australia