Journey Home at the Geffrye Museum
Relaunch of Journey Home board game
Friends were well represented at the Geffrye Museum in east London on Saturday 25 January at an event to launch a new, improved version of the Journey Home board game. The event also celebrated an agreement between the producers of Journey Home and The Big Issue Foundation that gives fifty per cent of all profits to the charity.
Quaker author Jennifer Kavanagh is a co-creator of the game, which is based on one of her books, and, on Sunday, she spoke about it on BBC London’s Inspirit programme to presenter Jumoke Fashola to highlight 2014 Poverty and Homelessness Action Week (25 January to 2 February).
She said: ‘Our great mistake is to think that people without homes are somehow “other” – somehow different from us. When I came to Quakers about fifteen years ago the first thing I was asked to do was to coordinate the soup runs they did and I was nervous. I had never been on one. I had preconceptions. Then I went on one. I offered someone a cup of tea and instead of stumbling over a bundle in a doorway and feeling embarrassed and not knowing how to respond – it was the beginning of a human relationship and it was a real epiphany for me. I felt this could be me.’
During the event at the Geffrye Museum four tables, with people playing the game at each one, were in constant use. Over thirty people supported the event. One participant said: ‘The game was great fun to play. It’s also thought provoking. It takes you on a journey and makes you think about what home means.’
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