Community

FAILED MIGRATION: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES

Emi Rehana Ferdous is a social and intercultural worker at Peace Now. During her career, she was able to discover the stories of many families who decided to migrate to Italy in search of better living conditions. Unfortunately, not all the stories had a positive outcome: among them, she has discovered a high percentage of…

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Community

WHAT IS ANXIETY AND HOW TO LIVE BETTER WITH IT?

Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and phobias (social phobia, agoraphobia, and other specific phobias). In 2017, 3.8% of the global population suffered from anxiety disorders which correspond to about 284 million people. Females are more likely to develop such disorders, as 4.1% of them…

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Europe

ITALIAN AT HEART

Have you ever wondered what it feels like to grow up in a country that does not recognise you as its citizen? How would you feel if there was a big bureaucratic wall between you and who you think you are? Would you feel as you were left out? I am Kejsi Hodo, born in…

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Africa

MY SISTER’S EXPERIENCE IN CAMEROON

In 2018, for five weeks, my sister went to Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, to help restore a technical middle school for girls. She was part of a group of young French people that flew to Cameroon to join a group of young Cameroonians in order to work together. Before leaving, they raised funds to…

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Community

THE HISTORY OF THE PRIDE

Nowadays, the Pride is considered a party more than a political march. However, it was born because of a very decisive political event that took place in 1969 and was led by queer and trans women of colour. Unfortunately, we tend to cis-wash and white-wash history and, therefore, to forget the role of these beautiful…

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Community

TINY DOT: COLOURS AND SUSTAINABILITY

Until the beginning of 2020, Lorenza Mazzoni used to work in the tourism industry and, for this reason, she travelled a lot. With the outbreak of the pandemic, the sector she used to work for basically stopped and she, therefore, decided to reinvent herself. In this interview, we will discover how Tiny Dot Zero Waste…

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Community

HOW MUCH FOOD DO WE WASTE?

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, around 690 million people suffer from hunger and 3 billion people have no sufficient financial means to afford a healthy diet. Nevertheless, approximately 14% of the food produced all around the world does not reach the market, and tons of food are wasted. Food…

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Africa

DERELICT PRIMARY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN RURAL GHANA

Education, in its widest sense, is the process through which the goals and habits of a group of people are passed down from generation to generation. In general, it happens as a result of any event that has a formative influence on how one thinks, feels, or acts. However, despite Ghana’s efforts to deliver outstanding…

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