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OXFORD, Nov 27 — More than 200 refugees and asylum seekers will be trained as tour guides at several Oxford museums over the next five years. This innovative initiative is part of the “Multaka” project, launched in 2015 in Germany. This five-year training program recently received a £1...

Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud Al Saud, Secretary General of Alwaleed Philanthropies, said that the “Multaka-Oxford” project promotes cross-cultural understanding between the Arab world and the UK. “This program, which opens its arms to refugees and helps to integrate them into the local community through the power of art and culture, plays a powerful role in strengthening cross-cultural understanding in society.

“Through addressing visitors in clear and simple language aimed at all age groups and using peer-to-peer communication, the ‘Multaqa’ project hopes to facilitate refugee access to museums, and to help them to find social and cultural points of connection, as well as to increase their participation in the public sphere,” reads the project’s Inspired by this concept, the Oxford museums have partnered with local refugee community organizations to launch their own version of the training project.

 

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