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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 life experience of someone who has lived through the worst of humanity, surely we will all think differently when we eventually hear about these brave […]

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 living in an aquarium, as she cannot understand what other people tell her in the language of her new city. Fortunately, the kindness of people

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 her home. She came to Ireland when she was 18, so to continue with her education, she needed to complete Sixth Year. She talked about

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 it and move to the Moon. The hope for Earth’s rebirth resides in the children, still uncontaminated by the cruelty of humanity, as well as

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 and civil society, whose main goal is to improve and upgrade quality of life for society as a whole.   During my volunteering activities I

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 group of the Vugrovec-Kašina elementary school decided to record a radio show for LiDraNo this year: a literary, dramatic, and journalistic creation. The guidelines for radio entries

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 since 2014 who collaborates with JRS, and Carmo Belford, from the Portuguese JRS Communications Office.   The meeting was organized as part of the CHANGE

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, men, all extremely skinny, hungry and thirsty, sitting on the floor of the station without hope or an end to their suffering in sight. Maria

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 blankets because of the cold, from the comfort of their houses but not distracted even for a second. This presentation was planned to last 1

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 numbers and statistics: people with their own stories, memories and plans.   However, personal encounters are the very thing we have to limit in these