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"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.

City social / Stad sociaal (Piotr Kooij)

Cherry

Jun 3, 2019
3 min

City social / Stad sociaal (Piotr Kooij)

Easy, I thought. Leaving my village in the countryside and start moving to Leiden, a real student city. Expecting that new friends would come to me, everything would come to me in due time! For at least a year before I started studying at university I was already daydreaming. How much better everything would be once I would finally start studying in Leiden. These pink glasses I that I had put on were very much to my liking. In my village it is so easy, you send a message to a

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You can also download the Empty Lands booklet here!