“As Children’s Commissioner, I am really shocked and very concerned to see the very high number of children who were out of school at some point last year. These statistics are an absolute scandal…” The trend of children leaving school early or without any qualification is an appalling event that exposes every year over a thousand of young people to vulnerable conditions and difficult perspectives of life…
“Why? Why should I learn English? I feel very comfortable to speak my own native language. Everyone around can understand me. I enjoy chatting with my friends in my own language… That is enough for me, ok?”
A blind man with a lantern A blind man was walking home holding a lantern in front of him. A healthy man saw him and asked: “I hope, you don’t mind if I ask you a simple question” “Please go ahead” the blind man replied. “I understand that you are blind: so, why do you
If you believe that the clock can’t turn backwards, you might have to think again after what happened at the Australian Open tennis tournament for Junior Girls. Liza Kotliar, a 16 year-old Ukrainian girl, shook hands with her Russian opponent after being knockout …
“This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralysing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is …” Read more
Autumn is a good season to review in the summer what happened before moving on to our next step. There were two groups in two different locations. To both groups we wanted to offer the opportunity to….
Ruth, you are not inadequate, you are outstanding! If I could have spoken with you before you took your life, I am sure that I would help you see your good and avoid that tragic decision. Because I know how deep negative judgements and labels can be devastating. How deep judgements and negative labels can undermine the self-confidence and dignity of a person who honestly works and sacrifices herself to an outstanding commitment as yours was
What happens when you leave your familiar, usual, comfort zone? Come along and you will find out: nothing to fear anyway, no stress or anxiety, just joy of learning!
It is a hard time to speak about understanding. It is hard in this time to “imagine all the people sharing all the world” as John Lennon sang…. It seems a time when we don’t want to understand each other…. when we are learning to survive with deaf ears… when explosions replace the sound of music…
Is this what we want for our children?
Did we give up feeding their hope? spark their imagination? encourage them to stand for the future they want to?
How to use the moccasins of your brother at very best Read More »
Do you remember Mr Harry Wormwood? And Miss Agatha Trunchbull? Mr Harry Wormwood is a car salesman, Matilda’s father, in the story of “Matilda” by Roald Dahl. One evening Mr Wormwood abruptly takes the book out of Matilda’s hands and forces her to watch TV with the rest of the family in order to be
