Blackberry bushes grow out of the side of the barranco where the water flows all year round, right at the bottom and in the fold of the hills where is it more shadowy. The micro climate is just right for the cool loving thirsty blackberries and it is such a…

Irena Sandler was a social worker from Poland who helped to rescue 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto and place them with non-Jewish family, saving them from the harrowing fate that awaited them in concentration camps. Irena Sendler When the Nazis invaded in 1939, Irena Sendler was a social worker and so had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, where…www.biography.com She was a…

When the war broke out and occupation followed in the shape of a sham government healthy people mostly Serbians were deported from Croatia to Germany leaving the children behind. Diana Budisavljević was an Austrian woman living in Croatia decided to act when she could have stayed silent. With the help…

Permission to travel was not granted. If I insist on leaving without permission, I will be made homeless. That’s the text I got last night from my Ukrainian refugee friend who abruptly had to cancel the last-minute trip we were to take together. Tears welled up in my eyes as…

No, you may not steal my personal time with my family for team building. For over a decade I used to work in the wealth management financial industry, it was the classic corporate office environment with a dress code, a noisy open office including clear occasional glass / aluminum dividers…

Some years ago I got a phone call from a friend on a summer evening, she wanted to come over and talk to me and wouldn’t tell me what the matter was. I was worried and agreed to meet her straight away. We stood outside the house because the conversation…

It is often a discussion in our circles whether offering volunteering spaces on the farm is morally and ethically right. As the warm months are well and truly here, Anton has decided to leave for the UK for a few months, Tanya has also left to travel looking for cooler…

a not novel way of surviving an increasingly mad world As the news comes on, eyes are glued to the screen, there is no emotion on people’s faces though, food keeps being shoved into mouths as the plagues of the apocalypse one by one make an appearance in the faces…