By Shaya Laughlin From Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Walking through a refugee tent settlement in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley brings mixed feelings. On one side, there is the misery and the despair. Families living in severe poverty, crammed in rudimentary tents...
If you find yourself in the strange age right after your whole education has ended, you have worked for several years and have a trusted partner (or maybe not entirely) and a large family that will be soon expecting...
Nothing could have prepared me for my first food distribution at the largest refugees and migrants camp in Serbia. One by one, hundreds of men lined up for a plate of hot food which we had cooked that morning....
Human beings live on the planet since several millions of years and have learnt to adapt to the environment, to live on earth and to create shelters for protection, intimacy, family. In all regions of the world, humans have...
The Congo Basin is the second largest tropical rainforest and biodiversity hotspot in the world after the Amazonia. Covering an area of 3.7 million square kilometers, the tropical rainforest locates in several central African countries including Cameroon, the Republic...
I think everyone knows this moment when you’ve prepared months for something or your anticipation is higher than the Mount Everest and you reach a point where you most likely have to turn around or let go of your...
The day we, eleven Pangaea Young Explorers, all met in Marrakech was special for me. We shared the excitement about the next days together and the adventure ahead. The first challenge of the trip – how to find transportation...
Looks like our Ecocamp 2013 in Serbia was a great success! Here are thoughts and experiences of some Peer Leaders: Vuk Andjelic I would never expect that something like the ecocamp could change my way of thinking about nature. When...
I am from Down Under, but this year I am on an exchange, and my host sister Nora took me for New Years to the best country in the world – Switzerland. We came to meet with the other Pangaea members...
“Why does the EU need agriculture subsidies?” “Is the rise of the Chinese economy a threat to security?” “What are good projects fighting the plastic island in the Pacific?” In the first days of November the German “Bundeszentrale für...