Solidarity Schools – Mesopotamia
Description: Groups of teachers in collaboration with local grassroots collectives kicked off solidarity school-tutoring, demanding the use of local schools for this function or holding solidarity classes in local social centres. Departing from the experience of solidarity teaching for second generation migrants and refugees, these schools are self-organized, horizontal and engage parents, students and teachers in decision-making processes, linking also the school with the local community and broader socio-political issues. Ola (Open Lab Athens) supports the solidarity school of Mesopotamia through the configuration and maintenance of the school’s e-class systems and the design of the school’s self-assessment questionnaires.
Location: Community.
Period: 2018
Partners: Open Lab Athens (GR).
Users contribution description: Ola supports Solidarity Schools - Mesopotamia also through Iris, a mobile app platform to send mass text messages as a form of activism. Iris SMS is a community SMS donation platform inspired by the Solidarity Economy. Through Iris SMS activist can share messaging costs, count with more transparent and decentralised communication.
https://irismsg.io/
https://olathens.gr/encounter/solidarity-school/
