Making the podcast and booklet
We had the final session of the project today, where the volunteers designed the booklet, choosing pictures, layouts, and colour schemes...
Somali seafarers launch
"We had our launch event. It was an amazing day and a wonderful event to see all our hard work that we put in as a team. I shall say we...
Research and vlog session
"We watched a lot of videos to help make great ideas for our own film-making. We watched videos of Somali seafarers made by the Somali...
Video Interviews - 3
We've finished filming the interviews with two very interesting ones today, including the previous organiser of the Somali Senior Citizen...
Video interviews - 2
"It was an amazing session! We have covered quiet a lot in terms of interviews and film marking. I interviewed one of the elders. He was...
Video interviews - 1
Hi everyone, Francis here again. We've taken a bit of a break from the project during Ramadan, but we're now finally getting started with...
running reminiscence sessions!
We conducted some reminiscence activities, which also helped for our interviews. The seniors took part in the activities to share about...
Reminiscence Training
These pictures show what we learned in the session on Saturday. We did some activities where we shared old and new photos to see the...
Museum of London Docklands
On Saturday we went to the Museum of London Docklands. There was a large group of us, including Somali Seafarers who came along. Our main...
Tower Hamlets Archive
We're in Tower Hamlets library to learn Somali history, and about when they first came to England. It was amazing day spending time to...
Getting Started
Hi everyone! This is francis, the project officer for Eastside. I've just set up this new website for our Somali Seafarer's project,...