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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

  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

  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.

  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

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

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

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

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

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

Student Lana Jurišić is one of the students from primary schools in Croatia, currently inclouded in CHANGE project. She wrote about CHANGE in their school newspaper “Zmajček”, as a student

In June at the European school III in Brussels, Nathalie Stalmans, an Ethics teacher, organised an online meeting with her students and Abdulazez, a Syrian man and a VUB student

The SEI Association has supported for many years the newly arrived adolescents and their families to Pamplona at their time of migratory grief. They are assisted in language acquisition and

After meeting Ghazal, a refugee living in Ireland, a student wrote the below reflection and made a promise to herself to work hard. “Following meeting and listening to Ghazal, and

At the sound of the bell on the first day of school, the voices of the students have finally returned to the classes, which have remained empty and silent for many months. This new school

Everything was ready for February 16. At the break of dawn youngsters coming from all corners of the world gathered to spend a day in the mountains. We reached Villava,

“I escaped from Afghanistan ten years ago and my journey was not easy. There was a night when I thought that it would be my last time seeing the moon.

“Out of sight, out of mind” in the context of this theme this proverb makes perfect sense. In 2015 this theme appeared in all media was reported, was spoken. At