Insights

Ukraine Donbass February 2019 Slovjansk, Kurakhove, Avdivka, Mariupol. In the forgotten trenches of Europe, war is grinding into its sixth year.  I am in Kurakhove, east Ukraine. In the distance, I hear the sound of...

February 2019 Lviv Ukraine Remember your years as a student? The best years of your life they say. A little spartan here and there but overall one big adventure. Here's the story of Tatjana, she...

Israel Tel Aviv Jerusalem februari 2019 Who does not want to see Jerusalem just once in his life? It is curiosity that brought me here. Would Israel be like what I imagined based on the...

Ukraine Ternopil November 2018 Years of exercise, discipline and lessons preceded this moment. In only a few minutes your name will resound and all eyes and ears will be focussed on you. How you sing...

The Netherlands IJmuiden October 2018 Aid Part 1: Dogs like human feces “Twelve years ago I visited Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, for the first time. I walked in a park and bumped into an elderly lady...

Moldova, Cobani October 2018 Aid Part 2: The final destination Buckwheat and red beetroot The elderly couple lives in just one room. The rectangular structure of concrete blocks measures eight by four meters. It is all they...

Estonia July 2018 In your own house, in your own bed: in the morning you wake up and suddenly you are in a different country. This experience seems impossible but it happened to many.. The dissolution...

March 2018 Taroudant/Marrakech Morocco In the Sidi Ayoub area of the Medina (the town inside the city walls) of Marrakesch Abderrazzak El Maana unexpectedly addresses me in my own language with a charming southern...

Serbia februari 2018 I meet Goran Mitrovic in Obenovac, an hour drive from Belgrade. Now 57 his life coincides with the most turbulent periods in Serbia’s history. He studied physics at university during the Tito...

February 2018, Vukićevica Village, Grabovac, Serbia At the first handshake Aleksandar Velimirovic explains to me the philosophy of their project. For him it is not some new age phrase but a way of life....