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During the past few years I started discovering what I like doing. One of those things is writing. Another, but not less important, is helping others and doing good things for the world. I always think about the last one. It is always around my head. I think different ways I could help, at least to my community, because there is always a place to start. But I also want to help as much people as I can. So I continue thinking. This year I was sure of what I wanted to do about it. It was my year to start, it was time. In most of the activities I decided to do, I had to have… direct contact with...
Since 1992, every year on December 3rd, we celebrate the International Day for Persons with Disabilities to promote and raise awareness of the rights of persons with disabilities. I have heard some people say that this is a work that should be done daily and that, as such, having one specific day to mark it becomes counterproductive. Although I understand where those comments are coming from -in the sense that the struggle for inclusion is never-ending-, I believe the observance of this day helps us draw international attention to our situation and brings a new opportunity to advance our...
I have spent a great portion of my life trying to harness the power of words in many different ways. For one, I am a writer, something I decided I wanted to be when I first saw someone cry reading a story I wrote. I realized then that words foster empathy, and that, when used wisely, they can bring us closer together. I am also bilingual, so I am constantly switching between English and my native Spanish to convey my thoughts using just the right words. And finally, as of late, there is another way in which words have been important to me, since people have started to call me a teenage...
Young people are the ones that will take the responsibility of guiding the world into a new one. There are a lot of things to change, and these changes will be done by their generation. Young people should start deciding certain things that will affect them in the future. This is why they should start making decisions and helping adults with their perspective, they do this in certain places, such as, in the UN. But, in a lot of other places they are not able to help and give their opinion. In my opinion, we, the young, should have certain rights for taking decisions. And that is what I am...
I dream of a better world, an equality world, where girls and boys have the same right, where every little girl can dream of a future as much as the boys. I trust the next generation, and I hope this kids will made of our world a better place because I know they can do it. This is for you children, I trust you, I have hope in you, you are smart, and you can do whatever you want to do, don’t let them stop you, they’ll try, but you have the strength to don’t let them do that. Please fight for your rights, please respect the others and please don’t stay silence. I know you can do it.
We went through a difficult year for everyone but it is not bad to have wishes for the next one, that is why I am writing this letter for 2021: I dream of a year with more equality, in which we overcome the barriers of gender, religion, color, social class, etc. and let us unite to overcome the consequences that 2020 will leave us. I dream of a year with more health for everyone not only for those who can pay for It but also for every person who needs it anywhere in the world. I dream of a year with more education. The pandemic stopped education for many who needed it, in 2021 we have to...
Every day when we wake up we think about our future, about our dreams and our life goals, but unfortunately, none of that will ever happen without a safe planet. We are living knowing that our future is in danger, that our planet is not a safe place anymore. The climate change is not an issues for the next years, is something we must solve now. There is no time to waste, because while we wait, there is animals that are dying, there is places that are on fire and there is seas that do not have water anymore. So if you are seeing this please share and try to do something good for the environment...
Last week began the 16 days of activism to eliminate violence against women. And unfortunately in the society where I live we are very far from meeting the goal of these dates, that is why I decide to speak and write, that is why I commit to fight, because there are many women who cannot do it and that marks us, It changes us, it hurts us. It is getting up every day and seeing another victim on television, on the networks seeing another request for help or on the street seeing how the harassment is normalized, it is living in fear for me and for many, but since I realize that fear does not...
”Gender stereotypes are a daily action and are very normalized” Every day in our lives, we go through situations where we saw or we are victims of a misogynist comment or action because of our gender, because of being women. To understand better the issue we are going to see some daily examples: If we are in a gym class at school, in which we have to play football, and a boy has to choose between another boy or a girl to be part of their team, the kid will choose the boy without even thinking ( he probably isn’t doing it with any bad intentions), but the problem is that this action is...
What are your hopes and struggles as a young person? My hopes are to have a career that I like, meet new people and have a complete family. What do you think people misunderstand about young people like you? They misunderstand our feelings, our relations, life, friends or partners, our problems like low self-steam, loneliness and the stress we feel. What do you want to change in the world? I want to change the thinks of the old people and stereotypes. How can we make young voices heard? We can make voices heard with social media and don't talk criptically.
