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Fleeing to be Myself
Story of Bashiir is the grand prize winner of Centro Astalli’s literary contest. It is a story about life, love, human rights, homosexuality, cultural stigma, freedom, family relationships, persecution.
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Virtual presentation – CHANGE in a new format
This month, JRS Portugal organised a CHANGE presentation via Zoom with four classes from two different schools in Leiria. The students were between 14 and 15 years old, and were
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Yazdan – Why I love to be part of the CHANGE project
As part of the CHANGE project, which the students of the 7th grade of the Antun Mihanović Elementary School in Osijek are participating in, we organised an online encounter
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From prejudice to integration through music
Middle school students from Santa Maria delle Mole, near Rome, talk about their experience meeting refugees. After the meeting, they launched an initiative under the CHANGE Student Ambassador Programme.
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Listen and share: the added value of the encounter into Change programme
An Irish student shares his feelings and his experience after the encounter with Ghazal and Filimon, two refugees from Syria, now living in Ireland. Listening to Filimon and Ghazal’s stories
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Mass graves
Mass graves, Countries too abandoned. Fairy tales savored in the cold by small and hopeful children. Rough waters, killer waves, lost prayers and in need
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Hope for the future!
An Irish student’s hope for the future after participating in the CHANGE programme. “I feel like learning about Ghazal and Filimon has impacted me a lot because I’m going
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Inspirative Hiba’s story: making videos and drawings!
This time, we are bringing to you a story of CHANGE told by group of student journalists, as well as their inspiring short video: This year, a group of
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Writing does not go into exile
Thousands of students from schools in 15 Italian cities were the protagonists of “La scrittura non va in esilio” (Writing does not go into exile), the award ceremony for the
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CHANGE begins with an encounter
It is not easy to write about JRS’s CHANGE project for high school students. These workshops aim to challenge the students to think critically on the subject of refugees and
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Young journalists as a part of CHANGE
Student Lana Jurišić is one of the students from primary schools in Croatia, currently inclouded in CHANGE project. She wrote about CHANGE in their school newspaper “Zmajček”, as a student
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Travel across the humanity of Abdulazez’s pictures: the power of images
In June at the European school III in Brussels, Nathalie Stalmans, an Ethics teacher, organised an online meeting with her students and Abdulazez, a Syrian man and a VUB student
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One to one: Encounters with the Cross-cultural Socio-educational Service [SEI]
The SEI Association has supported for many years the newly arrived adolescents and their families to Pamplona at their time of migratory grief. They are assisted in language acquisition and
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Self-awareness through an encounter with the other
After meeting Ghazal, a refugee living in Ireland, a student wrote the below reflection and made a promise to herself to work hard. “Following meeting and listening to Ghazal, and
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Building a community of solidarity at school
At the sound of the bell on the first day of school, the voices of the students have finally returned to the classes, which have remained empty and silent for many months. This new school
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Walking together
Everything was ready for February 16. At the break of dawn youngsters coming from all corners of the world gathered to spend a day in the mountains. We reached Villava,
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Online encounters
“I escaped from Afghanistan ten years ago and my journey was not easy. There was a night when I thought that it would be my last time seeing the moon.
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Professor Rosário: “What we can’t see, we can’t feel”
“Out of sight, out of mind” in the context of this theme this proverb makes perfect sense. In 2015 this theme appeared in all media was reported, was spoken. At