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…
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…
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…
On the 26th of May 2021, India has been recording a total of more than 27 million positive cases, more than 24 million recoveries, and 311,421 deaths. The second half of April and the month of May 2021 have been particularly devastating in India with more than 200,000 new cases (up to 414,433 on the…
One advantage of having a Workaway experience in a small hinterland village, like Blacksod, is the chance to take a closer look at the locals. Hannah, my Irish host mom, was an authentic Irish woman. For example, she was bilingual, she spoke both English and Irish. She explained to me that, nowadays, in big cities…
These are the most important guidelines that people are supposed to know in order to plan their departure: 1) CONTRACT During the few months or weeks before the au pair arrives, the host family and au pair should talk about their specific wishes and expectations. The detailed agreements they reach thanks to these discussions…
About Universal Civil Service: Universal Civil Service aims at involving both European non-European citizens who live in Italy to remove inequality and to promote integration over the entire country. For those who want to do their Civil Service abroad, there is also the possibility to travel to another country (International Civil Service). Moreover, the young…
The problem: plastic waste pollution With the increasing production of disposable plastic products, the Earth is faced with a major problem: plastic waste pollution. Plastic items and particles accumulate in the environment posing a serious risk to ecosystems, animals, and humans. Even though plastic was discovered to be revolutionary and convenient, indeed it has been…
Surveillance is often praised in the name of security, but when the gaze of an authoritarian state penetrates every layer of a person’s life, reality starts to take the shape of a literary dystopia. The all-seeing surveillance system in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, however, is no fiction: with constant police patrols and high-tech cameras…
