Social Fabric – a wonderful way to integrate refugees in Zurich
Deborah is Italian and lives in Zurich. She tells about Social Fabric, a Swiss organization that created a wonderful project to help refugees integrate in the Swiss society. Despite...
The empathic civilization
Francesca sends us this recommendation for the book The Empathic Civilization, interesting food for thought from sociologist and economist Jeremy Rifkin. Human beings have many things in common, including a...
Your voice with the voice of others
Claudia interviewed Nicoletta Zannoni, flautist and teacher, who studied music in Italy and presently lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine. Nicoletta participates in our monthly challenge with…music! Some time...
Life from a motorbike
Motherhood is something that always makes me feel close to women, no matter where they come from. Distance disappears when mothers talk about their children. In Jakarta, where I presently...
The Expat’s Skills
Living abroad changes us in ways that are unimaginable and certainly not easy to convey. In this article I will try to sum the up the most important and tangible...
The power of music
My son introduced me to the film, The Music of Strangers, by Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. In the beautiful trailer, a couple of sentences struck a...
Bringing Hope to the World: The Critical Mission of the Expat, Transient, and Cross-Cultural Community
As the world becomes more interconnected, the challenges we face do as well. Many of the difficulties that have long been faced by the expat, transient, and cross-cultural community have expanded into...
What Expat Can Do: bringing hope to the world
Last month I participated in the FIGT (Families in Global Transition) conference in Amsterdam. It was my first time and I was eager to know more about this organization.