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Personally I define charity as a wide-spectrum notion that cannot be put only beyond the bounds of helping someone. Charity is an act of giving and not expecting to receive something in return. This is an intimate process between the needy and the person, who had offered help. No one wants to be put under any circumstances to beg for support, no matter if we talk about money, food, some kind of protection and etc. But sometimes life is not easy, and makes things happen in unexpected way, so those people don’t have a choice. So we should be more tolerant and strive to support them and their needs.

Charity exists in different forms and fascinate people in different ways. Some do it just for a hobby, some as a sentiment for “good”, and some just for the satisfaction, which they receive during the whole process. No matter the reason why, all that people, who are ready to devote piece of their precious, personal time, can be called genuine people, who give value on the real things in life. Because charity is such a real thing, such a worth, which put all the universal, ethical and moral understandings under one denominator. Charity is laid deep down in the human self-consciousness. It’s a quality, which every individual can unlock and use in its full potential-the sense of benevolence, compassion and will for help the others.

Doing any kind of charity activity don’t give you any material prize, so maybe this is the reason why some people don’t appreciate, practice or take it by heart. But the real prize stays deep behind the walls of the notion charity. It is so simple and unseen for the human eye. This is the self-satisfaction of helping someone in need and seeing the real happiness. Real, because the needy had experienced some kind of misery in their life. So such an act of goodness is like a ray of sunlight in their gray, misfortune daily life. This happiness is two side orientated-on one side it gives hope and encouragement to the needy and on the other it fills the soul of the helper with pure positive emotion.

Even though I’m only 18, charity takes important impact on my understanding of the human existence. Everybody is born to help the others, in one or another way. Charity activities make me feel more completed, give me another philosophy and sense of the life values. Charity recharge the positive energy and hope in me. It gives me fresh powers, which I use to direct those positivism in new activities, which benefit the others. Charity as a notion had transformed itself as a way of thinking and living.


Charity should be a leading power during the whole lifespan and sow good and hope in human hearts!


There are numerous kinds of discrimination – it can be based on age, color, religion, race, gender, sexual orientation and many more. Most probably every single person on this planet every day either becomes a victim of discrimination or witnesses some kind of discrimination without even realizing it. Even I was not realizing it before I participated in few Erasmus+ youth exchanges which were connected with this topic.

The first project I’m going to talk about is called “Europeans against racism and intolerance” which took place in Poland, Murzasichle in the period 11-18 March, 2018. It gathered 42 youngsters from 6 European countries – Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland and Turkey. The project was mainly focused on the topic of Migration and Refugee crisis. Apart from the energizers and different non-formal games we had a lot of discussions and even debates where everyone was freely expressing his/her opinion. We built very fast an environment where every single opinion was heard and respected, even though most of the time there were disagreements. I think that one of the good practices in the elimination of discrimination is indeed the freedom of expressing one’s opinion and not being judged by other people. Respect is the key of humanity’s bright future.


The second aspect of the project that I really loved and learned a lot from was the presentations of each country about the refugee crisis. In Bulgaria nowadays we don’t actually have a crisis, at least not as big as the one in Germany, for example. This is why most Bulgarians think that we don’t have refugees. Other Bulgarians think that refugees are not our problem as long as they don’t cause problems or don’t live in our country. If I got a dollar for every single time I heard the expression – “Who cares where they go, as long as they don’t stay here”, I would have been rich by now. Learning more about the refugee situation in other countries actually opened my eyes for the problem. Even though we don’t see it on television, on the news, or in social media, the problem exists, it’s there, we can do so much about it because we are all human beings and it’s our duty to help others. It warmed my heart when I saw that all the participants in the project were people who shared my belief that we MUST do something to solve the problem and help people in need.


The second project I’m going to tell you about is called “IntegART” which took place in Spain, Murcia during the period 15-24 September, 2018. It gathered 30 people from 6 different countries – Bulgaria, Estonia, France, Lithuania and Spain, but we also had representatives of Ghana, India, Russia and Ecuador. We had huge cultural diversity. We managed to identify different types of discrimination with a slightly different approach – through art. We had the freedom to express ourselves, our thoughts and believes using music, dances, painting, theater and so on. We even had a day that was devoted to LGBT community – a topic very unfamiliar to most of the participants. I had the opportunity to enlarge my horizon.

The thing that I most like about this project was the meeting with refugees and our art exhibition devoted to discrimination that we shared with them. We met people from Nigeria, Algeria, Papua New Guinea and Tunisia. We even did some energizers with them. Even though we had a language barrier we managed to communicate with these amazingly brave people and we had the honor to hear their stories. They totally fell in love with our art pieces. We all learned that after all we are human beings dealing with the same existential problems, no matter the color of out skins or the places we come from. Another practice of fighting discrimination that I think is one of the most successful is meeting people who have experienced discrimination and hearing their stories. This experience can totally change a person’s view of the world and actually make him/her do something meaningful. The world can be changed by setting an example.

And don’t forget what Gandhi said: “Be the change you want to see in the world”

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