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December 26th, 2011

BlogTV: A Rock Festival for the Children

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Is Santa Claus a rocker? It definitely seems to be the case in Lille!
“Père Noël est-il un rocker?” is an annual rock festival created and run by students from the Edhec Lille business school, to help share some Christmas spirit with disadvantaged families in the region. The idea is not to raise money, but presents—a [...]

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Lily Dionne

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December 13th, 2011

A New Playground for a School in Bulgaria

This school is called, “Charles Perrault”, the first international school in Varna which just celebrated a fully renovated building that will accommodate 83 young pupils [...]

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Krasimira Antimova

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December 12th, 2011

BlogTV: Bikers’ Solidarity

After a serious motorcycle accident, Claude Abejan decided to create an association called « Les Harley du cœur » (Bigheartedly Bikers)… All of the sudden it became indispensable for him to help people with a handicap or disability to offer them a little bit of happiness and….excitement!
To do so, a group of biker friends meet [...]

The language of money

What actually is money? How did it develop and how important is it in our everyday life? Since end of March 2011, the exhibition “The language of money”… [...]

BlogTV: Encounters for change with Mao Chan and Etoile de Martin

L’Etoile de Martin is a French association created in 2006 by young Martin’s parents. One year long, the little boy fought valiantly against a malignant brain tumour before “reaching the stars”. Laurent and Servanne, his parents, wished to honour his memory and share their experience with other parents who have to face the same disease.
Indeed, [...]

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Mao Chan

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September 27th, 2011

BlogTV: Holidays for everyone

“Albret Solidarité” is an association supporting needy families in the region of Albret, Lot-et-Garonne (France).
The association offers relaxing weekends, discovery days and birthday kits, and distributes toys at Christmas. It also owns a house which is freely lent to some families so they can get together for a week time.
For the children, this means relaxing and pleasant moments [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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September 20th, 2011

BlogTV: Books and words on the street

Giving children from disadvantaged backgrounds access to knowledge and imagination: this is the aim of the Atelier du 14 association.
Following the Street Library model created by the ATD Fourth World association, members of Atelier du 14 stroll through the streets bringing words to children.
No pressure, no competition, no discrimination; just sharing through the words, stories [...]

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Isabelle Palsky

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July 20th, 2011

“Homework school” fills an educational gap

Thirty not-for-profit projects were selected during our recent call for applications, including the Ait-Zekri-Belgique association… [...]

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Saskiana Dotremont

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July 19th, 2011

BlogTV : Bamboo Schools, a shelter for education

Karuna-Shechen was founded by Matthieu Ricard in order to initiate humanitarian projects in Asia.
The projects of this association deal with Health & Social Services as well as Education, mainly in Tibet and Nepal.
Interview of Karuna-Shechen members to present us in detail the Bamboo Schools programme: building inexpensive bamboo schools to provide education to children living [...]