00:00wake up wake up is the chorus of the song that jenny bsg choreographed for the dance
00:12for refugees campaign the dancer spoke to euro news about this call for action ahead
00:20of world refugee day celebrated each year on june 20th everyone needs to wake up it's
00:29time to talk about it's time to to help it's time to react we can't stay silent we have to speak up
00:34for oppressed oppressed um people and and this is what i'm doing the social media campaign challenges
00:40people to post their versions of the choreography on instagram and donate funds it is aimed primarily
00:47at young people who jenny works with at her dance school and when she travels abroad i try to to
00:54target the new generation because they for me they are to change they can do difference in this world
01:01and dance was for me the good way to attract attention and to change this narrative to put
01:10to to you know to celebrate the strength the potential and the resilience of refugees
01:16jenny bsg was born in belgium where her family sought refuge from the war in the democratic republic of
01:25congo a background that has left its mark on the artist and led her to activism in collaboration with
01:32the u.n high commissioner for refugees my family they fled violence in the 90s and you know my two
01:42elder brother that spent time in refugee camp um my mother she has experienced experienced displacements
01:50my dad to violence fear struggle today i am the living proof that the refugees background doesn't
01:59limit the the you know the it doesn't define the limits of refugee it defines their strengths
02:07the un says 123 million people are forcibly displaced twice as many as a decade ago maybe 37 million are
02:16refugees and aid cuts now threaten their lives
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