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Turning my #6wordchallenge into a social campaign

SAVE THE UYGHUR MUSLIMS

Embrace student Julia Poulussen and her 6word challenge

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As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.

Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.

Hello there!

My name is Julia, I'm a 23 year old applied Psychology student from The Netherlands. At the moment, I’m almost finished with my minor - Embrace TEC at Fontys Pulsed in Eindhoven. Despite Covid-19, I have had the best creative experiences and bonding time with my fellow students at this minor. Here they create super interesting challenges to make us crack our brains. I had the chance to take part in a very interesting creative challenge that is really close to my heart.

#SixWordChallenge

To think and design our personal statement/manifesto in a short 6 words sentence that would carry our own individual unique message. For example: "For sale, baby shoes, never worn". This powerful sentence loaded with meaning makes one quickly understand the context.

I didn't feel the need to address anything personal about my own life because I couldn’t see how that would be of any benefit. Instead, I wished to raise awareness on an urgent issue close to my heart, i.e., about our Uyghur brothers and sisters that are locked away from the world by Chinese authorities only because they stand by their beliefs. I feel together, as humanity, we need to take action against this atrocity but how can we do that if people here aren’t aware of what is going on in China.

So, I used my voice as a Muslim to turn this challenge into something bigger than myself. To inform people and make them aware about this inhumane atrocity. I wrote:

"Open eyes, Blind eye; Uyghur genocide"

[Explanation - The world is watching and is aware of this genocide (Open eyes), but chooses to close their eyes and ignore what is happening (Blind eye) with the Uyghur Muslim Community in China (Uyghur genocide).] 

My Social Campaign:

#Uyghur_Muslims

As a young Muslim entrepreneur, I felt the need to support my brothers & sisters in China. So I started a 30 day campaign where you can order a T-shirt with these 6 words sentence printed on it. It's an original design which I crafted myself making the typeface with newspaper cuttings representing the media that doesn't look enough into this grave issue.

Practical Information:

  • the profit from this campaign will go 100% to our Uyghur muslim brothers & sisters
  • Please pre-order your unique t-shirt during our 30 days campaign. Once the campaign ends and all orders come in, the T-shirts will be produced in the exact amount by the company Everpress and shipped to your doorstep. By using this method through Everpress, we ensure that that no extra material and energy is wasted.
  • You can preorder your T-shirt here: https://everpress.com/save-the-uyghurs or by clicking on the 6 word sentence. Remember, your money will be spent for a good cause and you will become part of initiating the change!

At my business page @studio_nour on Instagram you can see all the different colours available. If you are interested in a hoodie or a crewneck sweater, we can also make that happen! Just DM me and I will set it up.

Please take a look and share this campaign on your social media accounts with family and friends! Let's get louder all together for this oppressed minority!!

Pulsed for Good

Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.

Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.

As a secondary school graduate, choosing the next step in your education may feel like a scary leap. Nothing to worry about: Pulsed Empower is here to support you. This inspiring, challenging program enables secondary school graduates to uncover their uniqueness and put it to satisfying use. Empower focuses on your wants, needs and abilities and helps you find the direction that fits you like a glove.

Empower is all about the strength of creating. The emphasis is on learning through experiencing, doing, sometimes failing, and starting all over to finally succeeding. That is why books are optional, not mandatory. Empower turns every day into an innovative field trip filled with technology, entrepreneurship, and creativity. At the same time, you stay socially connected with other students and lecturers.

Pulsed for Good

Smashing the status quo, breaking the mould, shaping a new one … just to break it again. Our fast-paced, ever-changing world demands equally evolving education. That is why Fontys Pulsed Academy puts its daring spin on it, based on better, broader, exciting design-based learning. Our curriculum is never finished, our thirst for knowledge and skills is never quenched, and our ambition is never fully achieved.

Fontys Pulsed Academy offers student-centred, talented-based teaching approaches captured in five act-provoking programs. These are primarily aimed at a challenging cocktail of technology & craftmanship, entrepreneurship & business, and design & creativity. Additionally, we offer expeditions for educators to take ownership and (re)design the education of their institute.

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