Month September 2021
Inspirational Nugget – 2018 – March For Our Lives-initiators, USA: Safe schools and communities for everyone …David, Emma, Jaclyn and Matt co-founded March For Our Lives together with their friends to demand peaceful solutions for safer schools and communities. Too… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget: 2018 – March For Our Lives-initiators, USA – The story behind March for Our Lives David Hogg, Emma Gonzalez, Jaclyn Corin and Matt Deitsch grew up in a country where school shooting drills are a regular part of… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget – 2019 – Greta Thunberg (16), Sweden Greta shows that children are at the heart of the fight for a more sustainable future. Climate change is violating children’s rights to life, health and peace, and children are now… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget – 2019 – Greta Thunberg (16), Sweden …Greta doesn’t just talk about solutions, she lives them. In August 2019, Greta embarked on a journey to the United States to attend important climate conferences. Rather than board an airplane,… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget – 2019 – Greta Thunberg (16), Sweden … Cities, countries and continents follow Greta’s school strike spread to other Swedish cities, to other European countries, and finally to other continents. Over seven million young people embraced Fridays for… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget …Environmental issues are human rights issues. A healthy environment is essential to the survival, well-being and development of children, and therefore a precondition for the realization of the rights of the child. At the same time, the fulfillment… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget …Her parents had tried to stop her. No other children had joined her. But she was determined to see it through and sat down, alone. She wrote on Twitter: “We children usually don’t do as you tell us… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget …But Greta saw that she needed to use her voice to do more. Inspired by last year’s International Children’s Peace Prize winners, March for Our Lives, she sat down in front of Sweden’s parliament on August 20th 2018… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget …When Greta first learned about climate change at about eight years old, she was shocked that adults didn’t seem to take the crisis seriously. She became depressed. She didn’t eat, go to school or speak for months. Her… Continue Reading →
Inspirational Nugget – 2019 – Greta Thunberg (16), Sweden Greta Thunberg (16) has mobilized over seven million children across the world to strike, like her, for climate justice. Greta’s message to the world is simple: fine words about the climate… Continue Reading →
