ESC 2019/2020

It is never easy to leave what you are used to, the comforts of what you call home and the company of those who are dear. It is harder, maybe, to start a new life in a new city, doing a new job, living in a new...

Christmas is a special holiday. Almost all of the people celebrate it within family: there is lots of food, presents, laughs, songs, lights etc. But what about celebrating it in an amazing little Cypriot village with a local family? Well, you just have to...

As Covid-19 started to spread also in the small island of Cyprus we have been asked to work from home, “smart working” they say, in order for everyone to keep safe in the house, reducing as much as possible contacts with the outside.   Challenge accepted! First...

Nicosia is not a city with which you fall in love at first sight. It is a city to discover and live day by day. It is not easy to describe it in one word as it has many different faces, some of which...

I have always been attracted by border areas. I see the border as a space characterised by creativity and richness, because it is a place where differences meet and they find themselves having to look for their own way to merge, to intersect, to overlap or to...

I don’t particularly like new beginnings. I never have. Yet, I keep looking for them. It is like when I start writing on a blank page. I never know how to start: the beginning is the most difficult part. I would always prefer to start...

On 7th and 8th March, I was invited to participate to a training organized in the framework of BASE programme. The training’s aim was to learn about working as cultural advisor and how to be a community advocate within the Cypriot society, in order to address...

It has been so many years since I started to be more and more informed on the effects of climate change and pollution on human rights, and from my point view this approach to climate change and the respect of the environment is still...

If I had to choose one word to describe my experience as volunteer in Cyprus at ‘Home for Hope’, I would say intense. It was like experiencing different worlds in one same place, because that very place found itself being the center of many different worlds. And that center is only...

Volunteering at “Hope for Children” CRC Policy Center is like diving into an ocean of cultures and stories. You will never come out the same as when you went inside.    During the months spent volunteering here I got to know many people: some stuck around for a long time, others just passed...