Nick O’Connell
+1 224 500 2707
nick@migrantsofthemed.com
www.migrantsofthemed.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Calls To The Migrant Community On The
Open Encounters Podcast
Humanitarian Storytelling continues during the coronavirus quarantine with
status check-ins on those in the migrant community across Italy and Germany.
ROME, ITALY 5 May 2020 – Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) connects with the migrant community in Italy and Germany during the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown for remote check-ins via WhatsApp calls, recorded and shared on the Open Encounters podcast.
Episodes are live now and released on a rolling basis as they become available, featuring people in state migrant housing across Italy and Germany, with the expectation to expand elsewhere in Europe.
One-on-one calls from Open Encounters host, Pamela Kerpius, cover each person’s physical and mental health status, and other details of daily survival during quarantine in the signature conversational rapport she is known for with her interviewees.
MotM launched the podcast initiative in an urgent reaction to stay connected to and account for the already marginalized people now further separated from work and social encounter during the coronavirus outbreak.
Episodes capture the immediate narrative of this unprecedented time through the voices of the people themselves, and are a resource for those seeking information about the status of migrants living in lockdown when few at the moment are able to report on the ground directly.
Listen and subscribe now to Open Encounters on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, and other podcast providers.
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About Migrants of the Mediterranean
Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) is an online Humanitarian Storytelling publication that documents the individual journeys of people who have crossed continents, countries, desert and sea from their countries of origin to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where they are brought post-rescue after escaping Libya. They are also greeted in some instances across greater Italy and the EU, and now in Asia-Pacific.
The primary mission of MotM is to give dignity to the world’s most vulnerable, and to ensure a platform where they may be seen and heard. MotM creates an account for the historical record, and tracks its subjects (some since 2016), documenting all issues of the migrant experience in an effort to inform public policy, scholars and the media, and to provide a stable platform for migrants––the most marginalized of people––to find voice and, finally, home.