Since 2017, Dr. Faraj Remmo, an educational scientist at the University of Bielefeld, has been awarding people around the world whose work is committed to integration, inclusion, diversity and participation. His self-financed "Thank You Sculptures" have now been awarded to institutions and individuals in 95 countries. Now the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin has also been awarded such a "Thank You Sculpture."
"The awarding of the "Thank You Sculpture" is intended to honor solidarity with and support for people who have little to no resources," says Faraj Remmo. In this sense, he defines solidarity as acting against any kind of discrimination; a focus of his work, which is extensively documented on his website.
"As an ex-Berliner and a child and teenager who grew up in Schöneberg, I feel honored and even more motivated to present the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin with the "Thank You Sculpture." Furthermore, the previous extraordinary research and currently the research project "Social Work as Colonial Knowledge Archive? A history laboratory on the (post-)colonial heritage of social work as a model of historiographical teaching research" are valued and particularly emphasized. Another reason is the recently signed climate protection agreement between the Alice Salomon Hochschule and the state of Berlin."
On behalf of ASH Berlin, Prof. Dr. María do Mar Castro Varela accepted the sculpture. As part of the lecture series "Remaining Sensitive. Solidarity between expansion and dissolution of boundaries" at the University of Bielefeld, she had given a workshop on "Climate justice and globality".
ASH Berlin would like to thank Faraj Remmo for the award!