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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Migration Storytelling and the
European Legal Community

Organization founder shares the work and storytelling at the
Pro Bono Italia Roundtable event. 

ROME, ITALY 24 November 2020 – Founder and Italy Correspondent, Pamela Kerpius, of Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM), the Humanitarian Storytelling organization based in Italy and the US, speaks at the Pro Bono Italia Roundtable on 25 November 2020 for the legal community across Europe.

The founder will introduce the work and storytelling that documents the fragile journey stories of people in the migrant community that have been recorded since 2016 in Lampedusa, Sicily.

Many in the MotM network have read the written accounts in the Journey Story Archive, most recently available in German, as well as in Italian; and have heard the voices of the people themselves on the Open Encounters podcast.

Now, hear about the work and storytelling in the voice of the founder herself as she shares its value with the interested legal community.

The 36th Italian Pro Bono Roundtable will take place on Wednesday, 25 November 2020 from 12:30 to 14:00 CET, as part of the third edition of the Italy Pro Bono Day.

The agenda includes the presentation of the annual reports of the clearinghouses of Coalizione Italiana Libertà e Diritti civili (CILD) and CSVnet, of NGOs new to the Pro Bono Italia network, and remarks from a representative of the Board of the National Coordination of the Italian Legal Clinics.

The event will be held in virtual mode via Zoom Due to the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. Further details will be provided to confirmed participants ahead of the event.

Registration is required to attend and is available through the Pro Bono Italia Eventbrite portal. For more information email the Pro Bono Italia, Secretary General at: segretario@probonoitalia.org.

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About Migrants of the Mediterranean
Migrants of the Mediterranean (MotM) is an Humanitarian Storytelling organization that documents the individual journeys of people who have crossed continents, countries, desert and sea from their countries of origin to the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where they are brought post-rescue after escaping Libya. They are also greeted increasingly across greater Italy, Germany and the EU.

The primary mission of MotM is to give dignity to the world’s most vulnerable and to ensure a platform where they may be seen and heard. MotM creates an account for the historical record, and tracks its subjects – some since 2016 – documenting all issues of the migrant experience in an effort to inform public policy, scholars and the media, and to provide a stable platform for migrants – the most marginalized of people – to find voice and, finally, home.