Appreciation – Youth on the World

Appreciation, Being Human, Values, YOW Binational

14. December 2020

Being a woman (in Cameroon)

I will wake up in the morning earlier to get the kid ready and to prepare the breakfast of my husband I will after go to work then to the market I will arrive home maybe earlier as my husband but still go in the kitchen to get him something…

Appreciation, Being Human, Inclusion, Politics, Values, YOW Binational, YOW Germany

11. August 2018

Gender: A mail exchange

Some time ago we started our E-Mail-Exchange on the topic of Gender equality because we feel that it is a topic that concerns us on many levels at the moment and we are very interested on the different views on the matter. Additionally, YOW Bremen will have a workshop on…

Appreciation, Nature, YOW Cameroon

12. March 2018

Poems on Nature

On 3 March, YOW Bafoussam held a workshop on Nature, thinking about what we understand by “Nature”, what it means to us, how and why Nature is suffering and what we can do to protect it, to live in accordance with the world around us. Below are some of the…

Appreciation, Being Human, Inclusion, Nature, Values, YOW Germany

24. January 2018

re-centering

YOW Bremen met in April to re-center its project work and activities: We worked out our vision, recollected its values and started afresh into a new project phasis.

Appreciation, Beauty, Being Human, General, Inclusion, Nature, Politics, Values, YOW Binational

18. December 2017

YOW Incoming 2017 – A joyful encounter

From December 4th till December 18th members of YOW Bafoussam visited YOW Bremen for two weeks filled with inspiring workshops on equality and nature, including a three-day-trip to the snowy mountains of the Hartz, meetings and discussions with politicians, university students and volunteers. Our journey ended with a colourful intercultural…

Appreciation, General, Nature, YOW Binational

The Stone

I have been here throughout the ages, a stone in the wild. I witnessed the coming and going of rain, sun and snow, the passing of days and nights, of winters, springs, summers and autumns, months and years and decades and centuries. I am the heart of this world, the…

Appreciation, Nature, Values, YOW Binational

Rule of Nature

A mixture of joy and worries, excitement and fear. When civilisation meets the wild that’s me versus nature. Who rules over whom I ask myself? But the answer is always very clear. Nature decides where all starts and all ends. Nature gives the same way as it takes. Respect nature…

Appreciation, Being Human, Politics, Values, YOW Binational

Equality

Equality. Everybody is claiming it; everybody says „I am living it.“ But in the end, people are too often trapped in their own ways, their own reality, judging all the time. Self-centered. The first. Because I feel this way, it is real. It is true. It is „right“. And the…

Appreciation, Being Human, Nature, YOW Binational

1. October 2017

Do you feel it?

Breathe in. Breathe out. Let it wash over you. Let it kiss you from the bottom of your feet to the top of your head. Feel its pulling. Feel its pushing. Feel its ebbing and flowing. How it moves everything around you: Pulling on your limbs; Moving your hand; Rustling…