#perspectives

"The Empty Lands" is a new Solidarity project of Cherry.

In this project, Dutch youngsters write columns about their experience as country-siders: what challenges do they face, what is beautiful there, how do they face the differences compared to a town or a city, first travel or experience abroad, and so on. They will be writing these interesting columns for a year long and some of them will be published in local magazines, newspapers or other media channels.

These are not only pieces of text, or words put together, these are pieces of heart that each youngster decided to open to the world about their lives.

Everyone told me that I was lucky (Celia Castillo)

Cherry

May 26, 2020
2 min

Everyone told me that I was lucky (Celia Castillo)

The truth is that I’ve always considered that it’s complicated to be born and live in a village like the one I have lived in. Since I was a child I have been surrounded by nature: the birds are my alarm clock and the rooster never fails. Everyone told me that I was lucky to grow up in a place like this, but I only saw problems. My friends have always lived far away from me, there is no public transport and I depend on my parents for everything. It is hard for them to keep an

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Cherry

Dec 23, 2019
2 min

Exchanged (Dorina Dimitrova)

Small towns. Everyone knows everyone and they know everything about each other. Every day you go out with the same people on the same places and you do the same things because nothing new really happens there. There are no opportunities, no entertainment, no new people to meet and suddenly you are stuck with the same old boring routine. Then from а friend of а friend (because that is how you find out about everything in the small town) you hear about exchanges. And you think

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You can also download the Empty Lands booklet here!