What is Alola? 🐙 🤖
Alola is a non-profit organisation prototyping tools to facilitate creative workshops for kids beyond language and cultural differences.
Alola has hatched from a collaborative residency in south of France, la Hive at thecamp and was founded by Julia, Claire, Aline, Sandile, and Léa.
What are we doing? And why? 👦 🎈 👧
Alola´s community both prototype tools (tangible and paper) to facilitate creative workshops for kids beyond language and cultural differences, and organise cultural workshops, particularly with refugees kids, newcomers or multicultural crowds. While celebrating diversity, Alola aims to create a playful moments of sharing, openness and tolerance. Our mission is to help to foster social inclusion and wellbeing for the next generations.
Alola´s Open Movement specifically aims at building openly and collaboratively creative low-cost activities for kids who don’t necessarily speak the same language or share the same culture. These would be accessible on our platform, to enable any volunteer to grasp some ready-made workshops, or simply inspiration. By adopting an open-source philosophy, Alola wants to enable everyone to become an actor to create a flourishing multicultural society and reach as many children as possible, while benefitting from the energy, passion and skills from any individual. Like you. :)
Online, Alola is a platform with 3 main poles: the workshop ressources, the tangible tools and the community:
Workshop ressources: here you'll find curated workshops on different topics with all the information you will need to run them. You can as well share your feedback or submit new propositions for workshops.
How can you contribute or participate?
This project is very open to new ideas, feedbacks and contributions, so everyone is welcome to reach us. More specifically:
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Are you an amateur, student or professionnal with an idea for a workshop that could be adapted for children who don´t speak the same language ? May it be a draft of an idea, or ready-made, we would be very grateful if you share it for our open-source. Read the HowtoContribute, and then you would be able to had your proposition in the Workshops repo. :)
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Are you an organisation, a volunteer or an educator and wanna organise a workshop? Find our activities on our platform, ready to download.
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Are you an enthusiast citizen and would like to help somehow but don´t know how? We would be glad to welcome you and orient you further. Just drop us a line at contact@alola.world .
Something else?
Yes, we're currently updating our website with a few open-source workshops, stay tuned!
Oh, and we adhere to the Berlin code of conduct.
... and thanks for visiting this repo, we hope you will join on this journey somehow.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
