PIA SCHMID
While looking for some exquisite silk in down town Bern we accidentally got attracted by a little shop. When we opened the door we were received by a small, tender woman with shining eyes – Pia Schmid! «After having worked for two years with Afghan refugees on the Indian subcontinent I couldn’t forget the plight […]
DR. THO HA VINH
As an ambassador for Gross National Happiness (GNH), Dr. Tho Ha Vinh, born in France, the child of a French mother and a Vietnamese father, has become known in wide circles – in the German-speaking world through his book Grundrecht auf Glück (Basic Right to Happiness), and in many European cities through his lectures and […]
LUCIEN (CHRIS) MALINS
In 2001 Lucien Malins, better known as Chris, agreed a sabbatical year from his work at a Waldorf School in the UK in order to try to bring a progressive form of education to an evolving alternative community in La Alpujarra region of southern Spain. After moving with his young family to live in a […]
EMIL RUSTIGE
Emil was an adventurous and inventive kid, enjoying long travels across continents with his parents when he was only three years old. He engaged in building huts in the woods as well as inventing a pancake-cooling-machine. And he loves soccer and is an enthusiast percussionist. But one day he got annoyed that his parents seemed […]
BURKHART VEIGEL
“He had found his place in the world. He knew he was doing the right thing: he gave others freedom.” When the Berlin wall went up in 1961 Burkhart was studying medicine in his second year at FU Free University Berlin. When he listened in disbelieve to the shrill radio announcements that early morning on […]
COSCO [LOUIS DE CORDIER]
Cosco is one of those people just everybody likes: outgoing, sensitive, supportive, laughing a lot and straight forward to the bottom. That way he got himself caretaker-ships for not just one Cortijo (stand alone farm dwelling) in the Alpujarra Mountains of the Sierra Nevada (South Spain), to where he has moved with his wife about […]
Caring for the mental and physical health of children
We are living through not only one of the most polarizing times in history but unfortunately also one of the most vicious and ideologically charged. This gets especially tragic when it comes to kids and adolescents, who are increasingly pulled into the net of this new reality of the coming metaverse, its convenience, health doctrine and social uprooting.
TIFFANNY BRAR – INDIA
“We have to fight focusing on the blindness but rather enable blind people to pursue their talents by helping them to become independent and build confidence. I’m trying to change the status quo by challenging it. Sometimes I can’t do it because there are many barriers, so I’m not yet there reaching the sky but […]
LORENA JULIO – ARGENTINA
We all could see the inequalities in the society. I saw it in my town. Children with disabilities have no access to education because the system is not accessible and also the parents feel ashamed because of the prejudices of the community. Some people are more aware while others prefer to ignore this unfair situation. […]
KARTHIKEYAN GANESAN – INDIA
Sristi Foundation – A Journey towards my dream My name is Karthikeyan and I come from Pondicherry, South India. I spent 15 years in an orphanage which enriched my life immensely. This orphanage, called Baby Sarah’s home (a unit of Integrated Rehabilitation & Development Centre – IRDC), is a very special place. It fosters 111 marginalized children, […]