The intervention, carried out from July to November 2016, was structured in two phases:

• PHASE I: Workshop Activities and Community Festivals within the three woredas in the villages of Wuchale, Bistima, and Hayk;
• PHASE II: Distribution of the board game “The Path of Life” – created through the analysis and reworking of the content that emerged during the work of the first phase – in primary and secondary schools in the three previously involved woredas (Ambassel, Worebabo, Tehuledere).

PHASE I

Each SCT intervention in the woredas was conducted through two main actions:

• The workshop format, lasting 20 hours, aimed at two different groups of 20 people each;
• The construction of a final event, based on the models of the barter parade and the Community Festival.

The objectives pursued were the exploration and shared analysis of the main theme, the collection of information and the development of awareness regarding the risks inherent in irregular immigration, as well as the enhancement of the culture of origin. The designed workshop format, considering the cultural context and the type of users, acted on three work levels: the socio-affective level; the expressive level and the imaginary level. The themes on which it was structured are:

• Analysis of the risks associated with irregular immigration: exploration of the different dynamics inherent in each phase of the migratory process: the choice, the organization, the journey, the arrival in the foreign country, the new life;
• Enhancement of the culture of origin:

1. exploration of the coffee ceremony – an element deeply rooted in Ethiopian tradition – taken as a symbolic system able to structure the dramaturgical framework of the Community Festival;
2. creation of the “Orchestra”: each participant was asked to reproduce – with their body and voice – a characteristic sound of their territory; by “turning on” and “turning off,” together and individually, the individual contributions, the soundscape of the village came to life, which became a representative form of the village itself.

The construction of the final event, the concluding stage of the SCT intervention in each woreda, was prepared through the direct involvement of both the workshop participants and the local institutions, in particular using the traditional coffee ceremony, a representative element of Ethiopian culture.

The two formats used were:

• The Barter Parade. The workshop participants, accompanied by the operators, walked through the village streets, animating the procession with music, juggling, and traditional dances. During the parade, the Barter action took place: people in the street and those looking out from their doorsteps were asked to donate a coffee bean and were photographed at that moment. They were told that they would find their bean transformed, along with all the others collected, into ready-to-serve coffee during the Community Festival to which they were invited to participate.
• The Community Festival. In each woreda, a Community Festival was held which, starting from a common model, was adapted each time according to the specificities of the village: it, in fact, had among its purposes that of making people perceive how every complex event is possible thanks to the contribution of each member.

PHASE II

The second phase included strategies aimed at the widest possible dissemination of the content that emerged during the workshops conducted in the first phase. The main objective was to reach young people – particularly exposed, in the future, to the risk of resorting to irregular immigration channels. To this end, we proceeded with the creation of the board game “Path of Life”, whose content was developed from the analysis of what was collected. The game was then distributed through various interventions conducted in the schools of the three woredas, which involved both teachers and students aged 10 to 14.