World Refugee Day: Jeny BSG calls for action with Dance4refugees

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World Refugee Day: Jeny BSG calls for action with Dance4refugees  International dance icon Jeny Bonsenge, also known as Jeny BSG, launched a dance challenge earlier this month as a call to action in support of refugees. In the run-up to World Refugee Day, she spoke to Euronews about her motivation to work with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/06/20/world-refugee-day-jeny-bsg-calls-for-action-with-dance4refugees  Spark your senses, wake your wonder. Euronews Culture seeks to show creativity in action and inspire our audience to explore the world through the five senses. Start your journey through the best of Europe's arts, gastronomy, traditions and high-end craftsmanship.

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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

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