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 […]
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 “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 “Yahweh, Father of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim people,” followed with trepidation by the whole world. Yahweh defends Himself against the charge of high treason
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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 I know how important coming to Europe or emigrating in search of a better life is to people. I just think it is sad that
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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 listen to. The cultural and social consequences of being a woman, in some countries, are among the main factors leading to forced displacement. However, most
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 nuanced critical thinking in a world where facts are distorted for political purposes. 80% of the teachers who have implemented CHANGE agreed it fostered critical
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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 often deprived of their documents and treated as slaves. The letter ends with a bitter hope: that the need for food during the Covid-19 pandemic
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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 Interschool Kahoot event? Perhaps the following description may help… Once all connected on Zoom, students from various classes and ages eagerly signed in to
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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 refugees. The result is a fanciful story that manages to reflect the sad reality of human world events in a delicate but truthful way.
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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 journeys in the company of a young Somali migrant working as a Glovo driver: one journey goes through the streets of Rome to deliver food
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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. The protagonist, Bashiir, flees his country because of his sexual orientation, but also because – like all refugees, fundamentally – he wants to be happy,
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