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New sense of humanity
I really enjoyed the session, it was an enriching experience that made us grow as citizens and as students, but most importantly as people. From the moment we hear the
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Life in the Aquarium
The story “Aquarium“ puts us in the shoes of Basma, a girl who fled the war in Syria with her family and moved to Rome. Basma feels like she is
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If I could do it, so could you
When Ghazal came into our class to speak about being an immigrant, it moved me. She talked about a war in Syria that was happening only a kilometre away from
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A place called Earth
In her story, young Valentina tells us about an Earth torn apart by the hate and mistrust of humanity, to the point that the most virtuous men had to abandon
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Why CHANGE interests me? THINK, MEET, ACT, CHANGE!
My name is Božana and I am a student of the faculty of Law. From time to time I volunteer for associations and organisations in the field of social entrepreneurship
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CHANGE on the radio waves
Dijana Požgaj, the mentor teacher, shared the story of how the CHANGE project served as an inspiration for the an entry into the LiDraNo competition: 8th grade students in the press
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Azeitão Elementary School: the day after the meeting
On 2nd June 2020, the 7th grade students and teachers of Portuguese and English of the Azeitão school used Zoom to meet Ghalia Taki, a Syrian refugee living in Portugal
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When reality is different from what the media says
Maria Martina Floarea, 16 years old, shows us the real conditions of the migrants living in the Termini train station in Rome, through her eyes. Young boys, women with children,
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Online can be fun too!
Due to the pandemic many students in Portugal are forced to have some classes online. This class from Lisbon was very special, 30 students all cozy and wrapped in
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CHANGE goes Online
Personal encounters have always been an essential part of the CHANGE project. In our experience, it is how any kind of real change begins: meeting actual, real people behind the
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Diversity is an added value
“Free to leave, free to stay”, written by Carola Romani, is an imaginative story about humanity and the value of its diversity. It begins with the imaginary trial of
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Everyone deserves an equal shot at a better life
And Irish student voices their thoughts after an encounter with a refugee: Learning about Filimon has not really impacted me, because I have family in the Third World and
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Thank you S.!
S., a refugee from Cameroon, had a great surprise during her encounter with a group of young teenagers this week. Her story is neither easy to tell, nor easy to
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International Day of Education
On this International Day of Education, JRS Europe celebrates schools, teachers, and students around the world, and we want to highlight the CHANGE programme’s approach towards education: Promoting
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A place I would have never thought to call “home“
Through a “Letter from Italy“ from a son to his faraway mother, Matilde tells us about the sad reality of the exploitation of migrants in the fields, where they are
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International Migrants Day: let’s play for an inclusive society!
On December 18th, thousands of students from Spain and Belgium joined our Interschool Kahoot online event, organised in light of International Migrants Day. You may ask yourself, what is an
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Flying Towards Freedom
The Journey of Maurice placed third in Centro Astalli’s literary contest. It is a fable that uses the phenomenon of bird migration to recount real-life events in the journeys of
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A Journey Through the Mind of a Refugee
The story All the Memories in the Glovo Bag placed second in Centro Astalli’s literary contest. The author describes one of her dreams, bringing the reader on two parallel