This week at Pulling Together we began our latest project funded by Trafford Council Inclusive Neighbourhoods Grant Scheme. Our Family Tree is a project in which we hope that members can explore the the experiences of parents and grandparents as they made the journey from their homelands to the UK to make a new life for themselves and their families. This week we looked at how to ask family members who made this journey some as early as the 1960’s and some more recently. We would like to find out what experiences they has and how they overcame barriers such as language, racism, loneliness and isolation at the time of their arrival.
Some of the questions we decided on were:
Where were you born?
How did you get to England?
Where did you get married?
How old were you when you had your first child?
What is your favourite food?
What was your dream or ambition?
What language do you speak?
Do you have any brothers and sisters? Where are they?
Did you know anyone else in England?
What did you think it would be like living here?
Were you lonely?
How did you stay in touch with your family back home?
Did you think you would live here forever?
Do you have any photos of when you first came here or from before you came?
Using the questions and answers we hope to make a presentation and a fabric collage/banner that expresses the feelings that each person had.
Pulling Together Asian Women's Group 