Building Hope in Armenia: a Day at Lichk School
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Building Hope in Armenia: a Day at Lichk School

  It takes only five hours to cross Armenia from top to bottom. It took us two hours to travel from Ijevan, close to the northern border with Azerbaijan, to Martuni, a village of around five thousands people by lake Sevan. The “bus for hope” contained 13 of the 36 participants from the European “Youth … Continua a leggere

The death of a fellow traveller
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The death of a fellow traveller

by Aleksandra Pawlik I see traveling as an act of expressing affirmation of life. We can watch all this marvelous things around while we are hitting the road and feel SO ALIVE. We can be in the moment of now, surrounded by people, their talks in unknown languages, their laughter, but also hypnotized to this … Continua a leggere

A stairway to Earth – Living Stories from Toronto
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A stairway to Earth – Living Stories from Toronto

by Francesco Tassi I am going to tell you how I have met Kutt, the stairway’s player of High Park. Kutt is a musician originally from the British Colony of Saint Kitts and Nevis Islands, in the Caribbean (Sea). He lives now in Toronto but he has “played” stairways all around the world SEE the … Continua a leggere

Care&Share: a glimpse into the world of volunteerism
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Care&Share: a glimpse into the world of volunteerism

(Italian version here) Carol Faison first traveled to India in 1994,  in search of a few children she had started sponsoring then lost track of. Until then, she had been campaigning in Italy to provide financial support for indigent children in southern India, but her visit to the state of Andhra Pradesh made her realize … Continua a leggere

Letters against the war
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Letters against the war

by Matteo Tomasina Letter against the war (2002), India Research Press, $36. ISBN – 8188353000: DOWNLOAD FOR FREE After the tragic event of 9/11 in New York the reaction of people in Western countries was strongly emotional, characterized by fear, anxiety, sense of insecurity, but also anger for what happened and solidarity towards the victims. … Continua a leggere