Venues and routes – Trials & Tribulations

Ground for walking with refugees

Sadaqa — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:30:00 +0000

Refugee women do not choose the terrain they must cross. They walk through mud because the road is impassable, climb barriers because the border is closed, wade through water because the only route to safety runs through rivers or across seas. The ground beneath their feet offers no accommodation, makes no concession to modest dress or exhaustion or the weight of everything they carry.

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When the path forward means going alone

Sadaqa — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 09:54:00 +0000

The desire rises clear and insistent: you want to undertake Trials & Tribulations, to step into chosen difficulty in solidarity with refugees, to experience what your comfortable life has shielded you from understanding. But the obstacle appears before you even begin: you cannot find enough participants to form a group, locate an established event nearby, or wait months for the next organised…

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When nature becomes the course

Sadaqa — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 21:11:01 +0000

Not every community sits near an assault course. Not every organiser has access to professionally managed obstacles or facilities designed for physical challenge. But this need not prevent you from facilitating Trials & Tribulations. Britain’s landscape offers its own obstacles, its own difficulties, its own ground that teaches what refugee women already know: that sometimes the only path forward…

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Where sea meets struggle

Sadaqa — Wed, 01 May 2019 18:12:00 +0000

Refugee women fleeing conflict often find themselves walking toward coastlines — the sea becomes barrier and possibility both, the promise of safety lying across water that might kill them. They walk through cities that are not their cities, past landmarks that mean nothing to them, toward shores where boats wait or don’t wait, where passage might be bought or might be impossible.

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Where marsh meets memory

Sadaqa — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 16:59:00 +0000

Refugee women fleeing conflict often find themselves walking through terrain that offers no accommodation: marshland that shifts underfoot, estuaries where water rises without warning, coastal paths where the sea determines whether passage is possible or fatal. They walk through landscapes that are beautiful and indifferent both, where nature’s rhythms care nothing for human urgency…

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