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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 very attentive throughout. Salim is a boy from Sudan who participated in the encounter and told us a little of his story.   One of

  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 on Monday the 7th December 2020 with Yazdan, a seventeen-year-old from Iran currently living in Zagreb. This was done so the students could get to

  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.   “It all started with two classes in our school, with help from our Music, Italian, Art, and Support teachers. CHANGE’s modules made us think

  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 really drove home the fact that I live a very privileged life and am extremely lucky to live in the country that I do. Although

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 of being heard.    Islands of breathless bodies    And compassionate sunrays.     “Mass graves” is a poetry written by Elisa Fraschetti Giolito, a student

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 to stop taking advantage of the things I can get so easily that for others it might be near impossible to get, such as water,

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 eighth grade journalists from Kašina and the teacher Dijana Požgaj decided to get involved in a new interesting project. When the teacher introduced us to

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 literary contests promoted by Centro Astalli, realized in collaboration with Rai Cultura (media partner of the event). An event dedicated to culture, books, education and

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 migration – but these words bring up so many associations and even emotions. Immigration, economy, politics, social work, media, neighbourly love, defense, European values…