{"id":15823,"date":"2019-03-07T12:50:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T09:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/?p=15823"},"modified":"2019-03-07T20:47:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:47:13","slug":"gul-a-newspaper-for-female-migrants-in-saint-petersburg-ayym-baky-and-safina-khidzhobova-editorial-board-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/en\/news\/gul-a-newspaper-for-female-migrants-in-saint-petersburg-ayym-baky-and-safina-khidzhobova-editorial-board-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Gul \u2013 A Newspaper for Female Migrants in Saint Petersburg. Ayym Baky and Safina Khidzhobova, Editorial Board Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word \u0433\u0443\u043b<\/span>\/gul\/g\u00fcl translates from the Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Azerbaijani, and Kazakh languages as \u201cflower.\u201d For us, the flower is the symbol of wisdom, strength, and spiritual beauty. A flower grows in spite of everything. It overcomes barriers and makes the world more beautiful.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This newspaper first appeared in December 2016 under the auspices of the \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg\u201d project and is intended for female migrants from Central Asia and their family members. We publish in four languages: Tajik, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, and Russian. The paper is meant to be educational and informative, and includes legal advice on how to find a job, how to get the necessary documents, how to enroll a child at school, and how to obtain a registration. On the last page, we print a list of organizations where women can seek free advice if their children are rejected from a school, if there is violence in the home, if their labor rights are being violated, or if they need an appointment with specialists.<\/p>\n

The paper is published by us\u2014young women with experience as migrants. We do all the writing, translating, illustrations, pagination. Then we distribute it by the Full-Service Migration Center and at markets. We regularly get together at meetings and have become like family. We even do the translations ourselves: Safina and her sister – into Tajik; Ayym – into Kyrgyz; Nargiz – into Uzbek. The founder and publisher of the Russian version is Yulya Alimova, the coordinator of the \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg\u201d project. There are other special aspects: before allowing Nargis to come to the meetings, her parents invited Yulya over to see if they could trust her.<\/p>\n

We teach Russian for migrant children in the \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg\u201d project. We get them ready for school and help with their school subjects. Mothers and children who learned about the chance to improve their Russian specifically from Gul come to us. But the newspaper itself owes everything to the Russian language classes\u2014mothers, aunts, and sisters brought their children to our courses and said that they lacked a community specifically for women. Female migrants live closed lives and they\u2019re not used to voicing their opinions. Our hope is that these women understand that their opinions are important, that they are a part of society. We write about important women in the history of Asia, like Toktogon from Kyrgyzstan, who raised 150 children brought out of blockaded Leningrad; a female lawyer from Uzbekistan, who helped migrants; and Mavzun Chorieva, an athlete from Tajikistan who won a bronze medal in boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. To show that girls need to be given freedom of choice, that their goals and aspirations must be respected, we came up with a comic strip about Farangis, who is a boxer and dreams of going to the championship, but whose father is opposed to her hobby. To celebrate March 8 last year, we published an issue about the history of this date and explained how this day is important for women. Our readers are thrilled that they can read this paper in their native languages, since it is very difficult for them to read in Russian. We try to include lots of illustrations and infographics.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re preparing a coloring book that tells the story of a girl who wants to go to school, but her parents can\u2019t send her there because she has to watch her younger brother and help her mother. It\u2019s based on the true story of a family that came to us at \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg.\u201d We want to explain that all children\u2014both boys and girls\u2014must receive an education. We inserted a leaflet into this coloring book with an infographic explaining the step-by-step process of enrolling a child in school. Everything worked out well for the real girl from this story\u2014Yulya Alimova convinced her family that it was important for her daughter to get an education and helped them get together the documents they needed. At \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg,\u201d we frequently see girls up to the age of eight or nine who have not started school because they help their families at home, while 14- to 15-year-old girls don\u2019t go to school because they have to get jobs and help their families financially.<\/p>\n

In Central Asia, it\u2019s traditional to believe that girls must stay home, then get married, and then have children. Pressure is stronger on women in some places than in others. In Tajikistan, the situation with women\u2019s freedoms is worse than in Kyrgyzstan, but there is also a major difference between cities and rural areas. There is domestic violence in many families, but women don\u2019t even realize this because they believe it is the norm. We frequently raise the topic of violence in our articles and try to change the silent acceptance of this \u201ccustom.\u201d A psychologist at our newspaper\u2019s crisis center talked about different types of violence in the family, how to recognize them, and where to go for help.<\/p>\n

The adolescent social center Ostrovok, where \u201cChildren of Saint Petersburg\u201d prepares migrant adolescents for university entry exams, has twice offered master cooking classes for local mothers and migrant mothers. By sharing the habitual process of preparing food, these mothers were able to come out of their shells and speak freely. We would like to create a space like this that is always available where women could come to sew, since not all of them have enough money to buy clothes and it is cheaper to sew them from scratch or alter them. This would also be a space for women to talk. Migrant mothers generally feel embarrassed about their appearance, are not well-educated, don\u2019t speak Russian well, and have a low position in society. This space could help them gain confidence in themselves and make friends. It\u2019s important to us that people living in Russia think about the problems that migrant women face and the we\u2014migrants ourselves\u2014are indifferent to them.<\/p>\n

Photo: <\/em>
\nSafrina Khidzhobova, 22, fifth-year architecture student, writes texts, translates, illustrates<\/em>
\nAyym Baky, 24, three years in Russia, educated as a journalist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The word \u0433\u0443\u043b\/gul\/g\u00fcl translates from the Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Tajik, Azerbaijani, and Kazakh languages as \u201cflower.\u201d For us, the flower is the symbol of wisdom, strength, and spiritual beauty. A flower grows in spite of everything. It overcomes barriers and makes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208],"strategy_cases":[],"campaign":[],"archive":[],"filter-content":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-15823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-womens-rights-en"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417.jpg",4272,2848,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-125x125.jpg",125,125,true],"medium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-650x433.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417.jpg",1536,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417.jpg",2048,1365,false],"pub-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-220x147.jpg",220,147,true],"post-thumb":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-170x170.jpg",170,170,true],"wcicon":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"wcsquare":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"wcsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-250x167.jpg",250,167,true],"wcstandard":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-550x367.jpg",550,367,true],"wcbig":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-800x533.jpg",800,533,true],"wcfixedheightsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-270x180.jpg",270,180,true],"wcfixedheightmedium":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-450x300.jpg",450,300,true],"wcfixedheight":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-750x500.jpg",750,500,true],"wccarouselsmall":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-210x150.jpg",210,150,true],"wccarousel":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-400x285.jpg",400,285,true],"wcslider":["https:\/\/adcmemorial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_6417-1100x500.jpg",1100,500,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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