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Inclusion is all about making a better space for every human being
#WorldChildrensDay - Our own Little Community
My name is Sasha, I’m 13 and I live in Romania. This is my story of how #IFeltIncluded . About 2 years ago I moved to Italy. I knew nobody in the country and I was really stressed about making new friends. What are people in Italy even like? I had no idea! When I got there I saw that many kids were similar to those in Romania! I got along well with a lot of people but I didn’t make any close friends and still felt a bit like an outsider. Later, I made friends with one boy that helped me feel a lot more included. He was from England, he was my age and very funny. We became friends and talk to...
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Mental health
Mental health can be frightening, we don't know how to handle it at first, and it's very confusing. Most of us never want to admit when we're not feeling great and asking for help can be the hardest part. It's ok to not to feel ok, but admitting it to yourself and others is not as easy as they say. We always hear what we should do and how we should handle it, but when we're "down", we don't want to admit it and we hide how we actually feel and act as if nothing happened, almost always. It's easier to go to someone you know to talk to, or at least it should be, but we're ashamed of how we feel...
World Children’s Day 2022: listen to the voices of young people advocating for inclusion and fighting discrimination
Autonomy and Resistance
My story, my testimony
Inclusion is integration
LGBTQ+ rights advocate Ruairí Holohan reimagines a world with no discrimination
Brightening the tunnel for those in the dark
Education is a right for every child
As a child and a youth activist who grew up in a developing country, a country where not every child has access to quality education, I have developed a passion to raise awareness and help promote quality education to all children in my society and worldwide . My name is Omary Mwesongo and I grew up in Tanzania. I have obtained the most quality education my parents could offer me. But I haven't been happy with the education that I got and which I am still getting because millions of children in Tanzania and beyond have no access to quality education due to different social-economical and...
These are the issues young people cared about in 2022
Home isn’t Home Anymore
The thing that many people feel now is that home is no longer homey. When the home does not feel like a home, the party that feels disadvantaged will end up feeling lonely. I had a conversation with my friends about it, and they turned out to feel the same. They are not really close with their parents either. The complexity within them makes it difficult to be open to the people around them. Some say, "I can't tell others because they will only compare the problems they face with mine and consider me weak." This caused fear and made them feel worse. However, from the parents' side, they might...