The organization Weavetales is empowering refugees and immigrants to use their voices and share their stories, and on Saturday, these efforts will be recognized at the PLAYERS Championship.
“We are really happy to see the community stepping in and supporting,” said Basma Alawee, the cofounder of Weavetales.“Refugees coming from civilized and uncivilized countries. Refugees who are blue-eyed, blonde-haired and refugees who are brown-eyed,” Alawee explained of the different prejudices that exist when viewing refugees.“I was asked and threatened to leave my home,” she said.
“I was stopping to get some groceries and a man from nowhere looked at me and he did the sign of the gun and he’s like, ‘Go back! You need to be deported. Go back home,’” she recalled. “And at the time, I was an American citizen.” “When I hugged my dad, I was thinking all these thoughts: ‘Am I going to see him?’ But I never expected that wouldn’t happen,” Kroma said. “I said goodbye and he said, ‘Until we meet again,’ but it was farewell. It was very hard.”“I became more confident about speaking in public,” she shared.This has also empowered her to find other forms of expression like art. She’s now pursuing her Master’s in Fine Art and Visual Art from Jacksonville University.
She believes people are more receptive to a message in art form because “that goes through the heart, to the mind to open this mind.”This is exactly what Weavetales hopes to achieve through storytelling.
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