00:00wake up wake up is the chorus of the song that jenny bsg choreographed for the dance for refugees
00:17campaign the dancer talked to eronews about this call for action ahead of world refugee
00:23day celebrated every year on 20 june everyone needs to wake up it's time to talk about it's
00:33time to to help it's time to react we can't stay silent we have to speak up for oppressed
00:39people and and this is what i'm doing the social media campaign challenges people to post their
00:45versions of the choreography on instagram and donate funds it is aimed primarily at young
00:50people who jenny works with at her dance school and when she travels abroad try to to target the
00:58the new generation because they for me they are to change they can do the difference in this world and
01:05dance was for me the good way to attract attention and to change this narrative to put um to to you
01:13know to celebrate the strength the potential and the resilience of refugees jenny bsg was born in
01:24belgium where her family sought refuge from the war in the democratic republic of congo a background that
01:30left its mark on the artist and led her to activism in collaboration with the u.n high commissioner for
01:36refugees my family they fled violence in the 90s and you know my two elder brother that spent time in
01:46refugee camp and my mother are she has experienced experienced displacements my dad too violence fear
01:56struggle today i am the living proof that the refugees background doesn't limit the the you know the
02:05the it it doesn't define the limits of refugee it defines their strengths the united nations says
02:13there are currently 123 million forcibly displaced people worldwide almost 37 million of them are
02:19refugees the organization warns that recent drastic cuts in humanitarian aid funding are putting their lives
02:26their lives at risk
02:36you
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