How difficult is it for a young person today to find work? It’s the scourge of the century and every day we hear news about precariousness, abuses and work difficulties. This story takes us into the England of a group of young people who have decided to tell their stories
At first glance, Vittoria’s story might seem like a simple description of a job: a shoemaker. Images of nails, soldering, shoes and paint flash across the screen. Through the video we enter a bit into the backstage of a shoe store and even smell a bit of it. But Vittoria’s
The StoryAP Award came to a close in December 2021. The winner of the award has been Mirvat Sayegh’s story “War is like”, made with the support of UNHCR and Siamo Coop. We publish below the jury’s motivations, as well as the list of European finalists, and finally the list
Khalida Popal is the former captain of the Afghanistan women’s national soccer team. Sport has been for Khalida, since her childhood, a way to defend women’s rights. She discovered a passion for football as a child, playing with her brothers. As she grows up, she discovers that girls are no
On the occasion of what is currently happening in Afghanistan, we want to bring to attention one of the stories on the StoryAP portal, the story of Shikhali Mirzai. I met the author personally in France, thanks to a European project, and it was a truly memorable meeting for me.
“War is like ..”: what is war like? Can we Westerners really imagine what war is like and what impact it has on the lives of people who, in one way or another, survive? As I listen to the story of Mirvat, a young Syrian who fled the war in
On May 9, 1950, the French foreign minister, Robert Schuman, in a famous speech, set out his idea of a new form of cooperation between European nations, especially with the aim of avoiding further wars. A first step towards this union took place with the Treaty of Paris of April
On 21 April 130 migrants lost their lives in a shipwreck in the Sicilian channel. Three boats, in danger due to the rough seas, asked for help for two days, without receiving help from the Italian, Maltese or Libyan authorities. The Ocean Viking ship of Sos Mediterranee, and three merchant
Yesterday, March 17, the italian Senate’s Constitutional Affairs Commission unanimously approved the bill establishing, on March 18, the National Day in memory of the victims of the Coronavirus epidemic. In fact, it was March 18, 2020 when the army trucks left Bergamo, taking away the victims of the pandemic. Today
On the one hand, I feel within me the pride of coming from that land, Calabria, a beautiful land but torn by interests and indifference. I feel that there we can live a different life, in a certain sense “truer” and closer to the needs common to every human being,
What has just passed is the week dedicated to actions and campaigns against gender-based violence by men. Just last Saturday, here in the city where I live (Rome), there was a large demonstration in Piazza del Popolo that reiterated the need of women to fight this system. A struggle that
November 9, 1989 is the date of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The story of what happened that night is extraordinary. For several weeks in East Germany there had been riots, and it seemed that the government had finally decided to allow visits to West Berlin and throughout Germany,