The Maha Mamo facilitators camp has started. People from South Africa, Brazil, Italy, United States, Lebanon, Malta and the United Kingdom are reunited to advocate, raise awareness and break the stereotype of statelessness. We know it is not an easy challenge, but with the commitment and empowerment of the team, we will build together the base of what will be a community to support stateless people and raise more awareness on statelessness.

In our second meeting, the team received an introduction about ACT Technology. The technology for communities. It is based on webs 3.0 which aims to communicate people around positive causes to create a bigger impact. We shared some ideas and questions about it to get a better understanding of how would it be applicable in our community.

In today’s session, we moved towards the facilitator concept. We shared ideas about what it means, its role, duties, traits and responsibilities. We got inspired to see how we develop this role in our daily lives, in our work, with our families and friends. We agreed that this is a quite important yet challenging role, however, we all have the most important strait to facilitate within us, that is the willingness to take action to in causes we feel passionate for.

To start the second week of the Maha Mamo Facilitators Camp, we met a great and wonderful woman who shared with us the story of a stateless young in Lebanon. Beyond the name, there are persons that due to religions, bureaucracy, casts and many other reasons, continue borning in this world without the right to Belong!

After our last session full of information, facts and answers, this time we came up to the meeting with IDEAS. All kind of ideas and as much as we had. We put all of them over the table (or the screen) to visualize the number of possibilities to approach a new project of this type. In this stage, there is not bad or wrong, there is not too big or too small, there are just ideas in progress to be developed as projects, therefore the process must be open to ani kind of mind, we need to listen and receptive because solutions are everywhere just waiting for us to be seeing.

Today's session we set some minimums and maximums outcomes we will like to accomplish for our fundraising campaign. We identified these 3 areas as the most important topics to get clear: Graphic material Story description Crowdfunding websites After that, we discovered which are the first steps to take in order to achieve our goal.

During this session, we created our sub-teams to approach the project from different areas. Content and advocacy Design, marketing and promotion Reach out, connections and platforms. We also defined these teams as the structure that we will keep to the development of our community. To work in different areas allows us to make a zoom-in into details that we want to set before this camp finish and we start to welcome more people to the team

We are getting closer to the launch of our crowdfunding campaign and this means a heap of happiness for the time. This is our first project as The Maha Mamo Team and we are excited to start our community with this amazing story. Every day we learn more about each other, jobs, families, friends, daily routines and much more. We are an amazing team of women for the moment and despite all our duties and responsibilities during the days, we are glad to meet the team at the end of the day to create solutions and contribute to this cause.