📦 Using cardboard boxes to encourage children to think creatively. 🌍 In today's challenging world, many children face struggles that significantly shape their lives. Recognizing this, Judith Jønsby founded Papmor (also known as Boxmom) in 2015 to provide children with tools to reimagine their futures. "I felt that someone had to do something," she states. 👧 Based in Denmark, Papmor offers themed workshops to help vulnerable children dealing with trauma take ownership of their stories. One workshop theme is “Monster Feelings,” which creates a safe space for children to express their emotions and articulate their feelings through creative activities. 🎨 Initially focused on refugee children from the Middle East, Judith has expanded her support to Ukrainian refugees. The visual nature of the workshops helps bridge language barriers. Evidence shows that her work has a genuine impact, leading Judith to remain committed to expanding her influence internationally. ✨ Judith’s mission is clear: “If I can help just one child feel good about themselves and replace some of their negative stories with positive narratives about who they are, it makes it all worthwhile. I feel so blessed to have more than one story today.” 💪 The journey has been challenging, but Judith tries to "take her own medicine" and view obstacles as learning opportunities. It helps to have a network of people on a similar journey who understand what you are going through without needing explanations. 🎞️ Watch the full video for Judith's advice to those just starting out. – 🌐 Papmor is a member of the Baltic Sea Impact Network, a peer-learning network supported by the Svenska institutet. This network gathers social entrepreneurs from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Ukraine.
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📦 Using cardboard boxes to encourage children to think creatively. 🌍 In today's challenging world, many children face struggles that significantly shape their lives. Recognizing this, Judith Jønsby founded Papmor (also known as Boxmom) in 2015 to provide children with tools to reimagine their futures. "I felt that someone had to do something," she states. 👧 Based in Denmark, Papmor offers themed workshops to help vulnerable children dealing with trauma take ownership of their stories. One workshop theme is “Monster Feelings,” which creates a safe space for children to express their emotions and articulate their feelings through creative activities. 🎨 Initially focused on refugee children from the Middle East, Judith has expanded her support to Ukrainian refugees. The visual nature of the workshops helps bridge language barriers. Evidence shows that her work has a genuine impact, leading Judith to remain committed to expanding her influence internationally. ✨ Judith’s mission is clear: “If I can help just one child feel good about themselves and replace some of their negative stories with positive narratives about who they are, it makes it all worthwhile. I feel so blessed to have more than one story today.” 💪 The journey has been challenging, but Judith tries to "take her own medicine" and view obstacles as learning opportunities. It helps to have a network of people on a similar journey who understand what you are going through without needing explanations. 🎞️ Watch the full video for Judith's advice to those just starting out. – 🌐 Papmor is a member of the Baltic Sea Impact Network, a peer-learning network gathering social entrepreneurs from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Ukraine, supported by the Svenska institutet.
📦 Using cardboard boxes to encourage children to think creatively. 🌍 In today's challenging world, many children face struggles that significantly shape their lives. Recognizing this, Judith Jønsby founded Papmor (also known as Boxmom) in 2015 to provide children with tools to reimagine their futures. "I felt that someone had to do something," she states. 👧 Based in Denmark, Papmor offers themed workshops to help vulnerable children dealing with trauma take ownership of their stories. One workshop theme is “Monster Feelings,” which creates a safe space for children to express their emotions and articulate their feelings through creative activities. 🎨 Initially focused on refugee children from the Middle East, Judith has expanded her support to Ukrainian refugees. The visual nature of the workshops helps bridge language barriers. Evidence shows that her work has a genuine impact, leading Judith to remain committed to expanding her influence internationally. ✨ Judith’s mission is clear: “If I can help just one child feel good about themselves and replace some of their negative stories with positive narratives about who they are, it makes it all worthwhile. I feel so blessed to have more than one story today.” 💪 The journey has been challenging, but Judith tries to "take her own medicine" and view obstacles as learning opportunities. It helps to have a network of people on a similar journey who understand what you are going through without needing explanations. 🎞️ Watch the full video for Judith's advice to those just starting out. – 🌐 Papmor is a member of the Baltic Sea Impact Network, a peer-learning network supported by the Svenska institutet. This network gathers social entrepreneurs from Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, and Ukraine.
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Today we celebrated the end of Act 1 of Guzakuza and Ignite Africa fellowship for agribusiness women in Africa. I celebrate all the impactful Learning Labs to date, and looking forward to the next sessions. Some of my take homes: 1. It's important to start investing early to benefit from compound interest (invest in property, pensions and stock market etc) 2. Have multiple streams of income 3. Always budget and track expenses 4. Sometimes our confidence is overshadowed by roles we take that are not us. 5. It's important to set realistic personal and professional goals and evaluate them periodically to ensure you are on the right track. 6. We should embrace AI in our lives to some extent. 7. Self-care is very important amidst the chaos of life. We should celebrate our wins in one way or the other. 8. Always give back to the community in whatever way you can 9. A good entrepreneur does not destroy others to get ahead. 10. Our presence in society must be impactful. If your absence is not felt, then you are irrelevant 11. A person with right attitude does not have to put too much effort to be recognised 12. Find solution(s), and money will follow. 13. Sometimes what we need is advise, not money 14. You can succeed if you decide you don't like the status quo and the necessary steps 15. Failure is part of a successful journeys 16. Ask yourself if your network is networth, otherwise change your circle.
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Rising anxiety, political polarization, and growing social divisions make it more important than ever to create spaces where youth can come together, share their perspectives, and listen to each other with empathy and understanding. Pieces of #Peace is an international study session designed to give young people and youth workers the tools to navigate these challenges through meaningful dialogue and collective action. We’re bringing together diverse voices to discuss critical issues such as #socialcohesion, #humanrightseducation, and strategies for #conflicttransformation. Apply to participate here, https://lnkd.in/eiJ6zQbw
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When life is complicated, causality is alluring. The possibility that there could exist a straight line of cause and effect fuels conspiracy theories, creates powerful arguments and has been the logic underpinning countless international development programmes. Even complexity tends to be depicted as a convoluted image of warbled spaghetti to replace the normally-straight causality lines leading from A to B. Yet, even tangled spaghetti diagrams still depict imagined causality: they have a starting and an end point. ‘It is because . . .’ is a reassuring phrase. It is also a common way of offering an answer to the quest that has troubled international development programmes in the past few years, and particularly so in the wake of conflict. This quest is the search for what works, because the belief to be able to programme against the horrors of violent conflict and its fallouts is appealing. It imagines that, thanks to a specific programme, people can heal. Darkness can turn into light. Everyday life can improve. This resonates with those working in the broad international development sector – helping to make things better is enriching, empowering and gratifying. Believing in this causality is often a raison d’être for aid workers. Wanting to support those who have faced or continue to face brutality, marginalization, poverty and hunger – people who, despite everything, find the strength to care for each other and seek out a living – is the backbone of humanitarian and development thinking. The need to identify a cause is a human instinct. In the development sector, the instinct is intensified by immense pressure to deliver results. Donors have created incentives to primarily engage in ways that are deemed to deliver measurable benefits – those that seem to have figured out causality. Pinpointing exactly what works needs a narrow problem definition, a slim repertoire of what is considered acceptable success, and a ladle of confidence regarding cause and effect. This development did not come about because this is the best way to make development work: it is based on what Yanguas refers to as the political theatre around the aid budget, where empirical evidence on ‘what works’ becomes the stuff of political arguments against public pressure to reduce spending. And yet, something has been lost between the belief in causality, the fine intentions, the complex realities of conflictual environments and the way individuals working in conflict-affected situations imagine how the causality they are seeking comes about. The current mental model that underpins development programming in conflict and so-called post-conflict situations needs an overhaul. A mental model is how we explain the world around us. It is the go-to interpretation of why things are the way they are and how things function; it is the story we tell ourselves about who we are and why we do what we do. 321p 2023 Bloomsbury Academic https://lnkd.in/g_7iR2B4
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A mental model is how we explain the world around us. It is the go-to interpretation of why things are the way they are and how things function; it is the story we tell ourselves about who we are and why we do what we do. ‘It is because . . .’ is a reassuring phrase. It is also a common way of offering an answer to the quest that has troubled international development programmes in the past few years, and particularly so in the wake of conflict. This quest is the search for what works, because the belief to be able to programme against the horrors of violent conflict and its fallouts is appealing. It imagines that, thanks to a specific programme, people can heal. Darkness can turn into light. So many times we adhere to a mental model that emphasises linearity, certainty, and causality. Wrong. In today’s world, the less informed are often overly confident, while those who grasp complex realities are plagued by doubt. #WorthToRead #LibroRecomendado
When life is complicated, causality is alluring. The possibility that there could exist a straight line of cause and effect fuels conspiracy theories, creates powerful arguments and has been the logic underpinning countless international development programmes. Even complexity tends to be depicted as a convoluted image of warbled spaghetti to replace the normally-straight causality lines leading from A to B. Yet, even tangled spaghetti diagrams still depict imagined causality: they have a starting and an end point. ‘It is because . . .’ is a reassuring phrase. It is also a common way of offering an answer to the quest that has troubled international development programmes in the past few years, and particularly so in the wake of conflict. This quest is the search for what works, because the belief to be able to programme against the horrors of violent conflict and its fallouts is appealing. It imagines that, thanks to a specific programme, people can heal. Darkness can turn into light. Everyday life can improve. This resonates with those working in the broad international development sector – helping to make things better is enriching, empowering and gratifying. Believing in this causality is often a raison d’être for aid workers. Wanting to support those who have faced or continue to face brutality, marginalization, poverty and hunger – people who, despite everything, find the strength to care for each other and seek out a living – is the backbone of humanitarian and development thinking. The need to identify a cause is a human instinct. In the development sector, the instinct is intensified by immense pressure to deliver results. Donors have created incentives to primarily engage in ways that are deemed to deliver measurable benefits – those that seem to have figured out causality. Pinpointing exactly what works needs a narrow problem definition, a slim repertoire of what is considered acceptable success, and a ladle of confidence regarding cause and effect. This development did not come about because this is the best way to make development work: it is based on what Yanguas refers to as the political theatre around the aid budget, where empirical evidence on ‘what works’ becomes the stuff of political arguments against public pressure to reduce spending. And yet, something has been lost between the belief in causality, the fine intentions, the complex realities of conflictual environments and the way individuals working in conflict-affected situations imagine how the causality they are seeking comes about. The current mental model that underpins development programming in conflict and so-called post-conflict situations needs an overhaul. A mental model is how we explain the world around us. It is the go-to interpretation of why things are the way they are and how things function; it is the story we tell ourselves about who we are and why we do what we do. 321p 2023 Bloomsbury Academic https://lnkd.in/g_7iR2B4
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It's interesting. It shows something fundamentally wrong in the existing knowledge base. Causality is one of the five basic philosophical concepts of Aristotle. For those with a strong habitual way of thinking of logical reasoning, causality is the only way out, which could lead to a narrow mind and a wrong conclusion. We see this daily in news and LinkedIn posts & comments on conflicts, such as that between Israel and Palestine, and between government and people. It is wrong. The causality of Aristotle is philosophically not fundamental, logical reasoning is only useful under certain conditions. The world needs to clean up the existing knowledge base to move forward in the civilization process.
When life is complicated, causality is alluring. The possibility that there could exist a straight line of cause and effect fuels conspiracy theories, creates powerful arguments and has been the logic underpinning countless international development programmes. Even complexity tends to be depicted as a convoluted image of warbled spaghetti to replace the normally-straight causality lines leading from A to B. Yet, even tangled spaghetti diagrams still depict imagined causality: they have a starting and an end point. ‘It is because . . .’ is a reassuring phrase. It is also a common way of offering an answer to the quest that has troubled international development programmes in the past few years, and particularly so in the wake of conflict. This quest is the search for what works, because the belief to be able to programme against the horrors of violent conflict and its fallouts is appealing. It imagines that, thanks to a specific programme, people can heal. Darkness can turn into light. Everyday life can improve. This resonates with those working in the broad international development sector – helping to make things better is enriching, empowering and gratifying. Believing in this causality is often a raison d’être for aid workers. Wanting to support those who have faced or continue to face brutality, marginalization, poverty and hunger – people who, despite everything, find the strength to care for each other and seek out a living – is the backbone of humanitarian and development thinking. The need to identify a cause is a human instinct. In the development sector, the instinct is intensified by immense pressure to deliver results. Donors have created incentives to primarily engage in ways that are deemed to deliver measurable benefits – those that seem to have figured out causality. Pinpointing exactly what works needs a narrow problem definition, a slim repertoire of what is considered acceptable success, and a ladle of confidence regarding cause and effect. This development did not come about because this is the best way to make development work: it is based on what Yanguas refers to as the political theatre around the aid budget, where empirical evidence on ‘what works’ becomes the stuff of political arguments against public pressure to reduce spending. And yet, something has been lost between the belief in causality, the fine intentions, the complex realities of conflictual environments and the way individuals working in conflict-affected situations imagine how the causality they are seeking comes about. The current mental model that underpins development programming in conflict and so-called post-conflict situations needs an overhaul. A mental model is how we explain the world around us. It is the go-to interpretation of why things are the way they are and how things function; it is the story we tell ourselves about who we are and why we do what we do. 321p 2023 Bloomsbury Academic https://lnkd.in/g_7iR2B4
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A Mediterranean Youth Journey: 6 years of impact and development: Over the past 6 years, the Mediterranean Youth Foundation for Development has contributed to empowering young people and enhancing the spirit of cooperation and communication among Mediterranean people. The Foundation has grown from just an idea to an integrated entity that works on empowering young people, supporting their aspirations and contributing to building sustainable and more prosperous societies. The foundation was founded with a vision of empowering young people in the Mediterranean region, striving to provide an open space for youth to communicate, exchange ideas, and learn from each other's experiences. Its journey has gone through various stages and challenges that have contributed to its development, driven by its mission to support young people, whether in social development projects or in achieving their personal and professional goals. Throughout its journey, the foundation has organized numerous development programs and workshops aimed at enhancing young people's skills in the fields of entrepreneurship, community engagement, and environmental development. The foundation participated in a range of youth events, hosting young people from various Mediterranean countries. These events served as opportunities for cultural and idea exchange, helping participants to develop their skills. These activities resulted in the launch of innovative projects, reflecting the foundation’s commitment to supporting young people's ambitions and inspiring them to achieve their goals. After six years of impact, the foundation continues to expand its vision by launching more programs and initiatives. It looks forward to continuing its efforts to promote sustainable development, provide support for young people, and build a strong youth community capable of addressing global and local challenges. In conclusion, the Mediterranean Youth Foundation is more than just an organization; it is a journey for young people, filled with hope and inspiration, from youth to youth. #The_Start_of_Our_Story #From_the_Mediterranean_and_to_the_Mediterranean #Youth #peace #Youth4Mediterranean #MYF
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FINNISH EUROGUIDANCE AND EURODESK COLLABORATE ON THE ANNUAL “THE WORLD IS OPEN”-WEBINAR 🌍 Targeting guidance practitioners working with young people and students of the field, this year’s themes for the webinar were wellbeing, hope and the future regarding international experiences. 💡 Psychologist and mental health agent Julia Sangervo discussed how internationalisation impacts mental health, balancing challenges like culture shock with positives such as resilience, networking, and purpose. "Overcoming difficulties strengthens resilience." Fingo - Finnish Development NGOs expert in forecasting and development, Noora Vähäkari emphasized the need for future thinking, showing how imagining alternatives fosters hope and drives change. The event showcased experiences with the European Solidarity Corps, Erasmus+ exchanges, and solidarity projects, highlighting how they boost self-esteem, empower learning, and enable accessible growth opportunities for all young people. #Euroguidance #ErasmusPlus #YouthEmpowerment
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As we enter 2025, we note the many challenges around the world, from border conflicts to earthquakes, from political discourse to extreme pollution. Some people have found ways to cope by ignoring any sensitive or complicated topics; some have doubled down on their one-sided beliefs and wondered why people cannot get along. That would not be the start of a happy new year. Our global community wants to take a different route. Instead of arguing why people should do things differently for our benefit, we look into our own backyards to see what is needed and how we can help. We meet with our international peers from the West to the Global South to the Near and Far East and learn about their efforts. We explore sources of information that lead to the opposite conclusions. These conversations and efforts are conducted weekly by Buddies Without Borders students in more than 30 countries across the world. Below are just some of the local action projects initiated and driven by our teen leaders: In Ghana, Christian Nana Kwakye, Glorious Angel Ogyiri Asare and their clubmates at Tema International School are working on supporting the renovation of an IT lab in a school of disadvantaged children. In Turkey, Ceylin Gundogdu, Hanzade Su Taştan, Ravza Özdemir and their clubmates at Vali Muammer Güler Sosyal Bilimler Lisesi Güler Social Sciences High School are designing English-as-Second-Language awareness and workshops for elementary school students. In Japan, Mio Fujii and her clubmates at @Shonan Shirayuri High School have initiated partnerships with a local food bank to provide food and support citizens in poverty. In Germany, Marlene Walter, Julius Eichhorn and their clubmates at Goetheschule Essen have conducted research and presentations on combating fake news. In Taiwan, Jamie Liu and Eileen Wu and their clubmates at Taipei Private Tsai Hsing School High School are organizing visits to local elderly care facilities. In Jordan, Joelle Akroush and her clubmates at Amman National School are organizing educational activities for a local orphanage. More teens are doing amazing things around the world - including Shiv Nadar School Gurgaon and Strawberry Fields High School in India, @Unidad Educativa Particular Rosa de Jesús Cordero in Ecuador, Binus School Simprug in Indonesia, Green Bay High School in New Zealand, Towheed Iranian School School in UAE, The Walker School in the USA, The American International School in Cyprus - Private School, Nicosia, International School of Kigali Rwanda in Rwanda... check out where we are and why we care: https://lnkd.in/gdzqdfUG
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"Youth are the most important human resource for rebuilding Israeli society. Investing in informal education programs, empowerment, and leadership is not only a moral obligation; it is a necessary condition for the recovery of a society impacted by recent crises." -Shlomi Castro, CEO, COYO. The Young Emergency Guides Project is a crucial initiative led by the youth organizations, in partnership with the Jewish Federations of North America, The Israeli Ministry of Education משרד החינוך , local authorities, and emergency organizations. Together, they provide emotional support, professional counseling, and resilience-building for young people in crisis. However, there is still so much to be done. With nearly 70% of Israeli youth not participating in any form of informal education, there is a pressing need to expand access to programs like youth movements, clubs, and community activities. These frameworks are vital for fostering leadership, teamwork, and emotional resilience. The time to act is now – investing in youth is investing in the future of Israeli society. For the full article click here: https://lnkd.in/dR5UiPMU
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3moVery interesting way to give voice to this group of children.