27th October is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Audiovisual heritage is very important for the society and the history, because we can learn a lot from the past and use this knowledge to make a better future.

Sometimes an event when it is currently going on, we don't feel the importance of it - or not as much as it effects the following happenings. After the World War 2, a new historical trend became alive - the oral history. And why is it related with the audiovisual heritage? The oral history is based on personal experiences, and to save all these experiences, many-many audiovisual equipments were needed.

And if you just think about your personal life - it is just so easy to grab your phone and take a photo or a video during an event and to save it for the future. Do not you think that it's also an important part of the audiovisual heritage? It is!

If you want to read more about the 'World Day for Audiovisual Heritage', click here: http://www.un.org/en/events/audiovisualday/

Written by Dóra Nagy

The United Nations (UN) Day marks the anniversary of the entry into force in 1945 of the UN Charter. 
But first, what is the UN Charta and what does it include? And why is it that important?


First of all the UN Charta is the fundamental treaty of the United Nations which is an intergovernmental organization existing of nowadays 193 member states. The United Nations itself is tasked to promote international co-operation and to fight for human rights and higher standards of living. All these tasks are hold on to the UN Charter in detail. 
So back to the questions in the beginning, why is the UN Charta important? 
In general it guarantees human rights of citizens and fundamental freedoms in the member states. Furthermore it forces the member states to promote the human rights in other nonmember states and to fight for freedom for all without distinction as to sex, race, language or religion. 


In my opinion the United Nations Day let us thinking about what we achieved till today according to human rights, equality of gender and acceptance of different types of religion and culture but also what we still have to work on and what we have to fight against like for example racism, violence and poverty. 

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First, what is the united nations?, The United Nations is a intergovernmental organitazion which it aim is maintain the internacional order. Exactly it was created after the World War 2, day 24 of october in 1948 and this day is used to remember at people the importance of this happening. Almost all countries are members of the united nations, there are just two countries out of united nations. In total there are 193 countries in the united nations. From 1971 the United Nations General Assembly considered this day as a public holiday for all the members.

Written by: Carlos Enrique Suárez Cruz

Eine Woche voller Erlebnisse und neuer Erfahrungen, eine Woche, die den Alltag der Menschen verbessert, das charakterisiert die Woche „Football against racism“. In dieser haben wir, also die Freiwilligen von Praxis, verschiedene Veranstaltungen organisiert, um dem Rassismus und den Vorurteilen entgegenzuwirken. Deshalb arrangierten wir ein Fußball- und Fifaturnier, planten ein Fußballtraining, besuchten eine Grundschule und taten mehrere unterschiedliche Dinge, damit ein Zeichen gesetzt wird. All dies würde nicht möglich sein ohne die Handlungen der Organisation „FARE“, die für eine bessere Zukunft kämpft.
Für mich persönlich, war es echt erstaunlich zu merken, wie einfach es ist etwas Gutes zu tun und ein Wenig die Welt zu verändern. Ich hoffe, dass es weiterhin solche Veranstaltungen geben wird, denn es gibt immer etwas besseres für das man arbeiten kann und nach dem man strebt.   

 
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As a photographer. An amateur photographer or as just on ordinary photographer. Everyone sees the people throught the lens. We didnt see the people as people anymore we see them as an object for the picture and dont get me wrong I dont want to be rude but I know its a little harsh. But as a photographer I learnt throught the years that it is not about the people age, gender or race its about what they do and I use that eyesight in my regular life now too. Because if a person is kind, loving, caring and respects you it doesnt matter the things we see it matters the things we feel about them and about ourself. In my opinion the world would be such greater if we wouldnt use our eyes just our heart for people.
And you get it Im not writing about taking photos anymore. We shoudnt judge a people by his or her appearence more about the actions they make and how great their heart is.

So when we held the football tournament in here Serres and I was the photographer I didnt see the persons’ appearence, I dindt see the persons’ race or gender I just saw how much they are enyoing playing together and they cared so much about the other person they dont know or the rival team. Because it is what we all should be doing. Care for the others.

There are so many of us but we shoud be one.
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Petra Kántor

Well, we hear the word 'tolerance' every day; we tend to think about ourselves that we are tolerant - but is it that easy when it comes to practice?

Most of us would even have hard time if they had to answer the question - what does tolerance mean? I think there is no universal answer - since we are different, we have different ways to think about tolerance. Well, there is a definition, but my opinion is that definitions are just theory and can be even useful when you suffer with writing with your thesis, but that is all.

The important thing is that how you experience and live all those moments that were given to you. And why would you do this in ignorance and discrimination? It may sound cheesy or naive for the first reading, because everyone has negative feelings from the past - we had been hurt by many kinds of people, regardless any features of them. If you look back at your past, you have two options:
- you can live in your past, and let all those things influence your behavior
- or you can let all those bad memories go, and concentrate on the present happiness. 

​After this very first step, you can start thinking even further - what can I do for a better future? How can I improve my tolerant-self?
Yeah, it probably sounds pretty worn-out - the "learning-by-doing" method; but for becoming more tolerant and accepting, believe me, this is the BEST WAY EVER!
Do not let the trendy ideas interfere your plan - most of the popular vlogs/blogs/etc. say that you have to travel through the world to find your broad-mind, but there are way much easier opportunities to succeed!

What do you need to achieve your dream goal? 

-An event organised in order to raise awareness of tolerance
-A huge amount of curiosity
-Being open-minded
-Smile! :) 

If you made it until this point, you may have a question on your mind - what is after reaching my goal? I am really sorry to tell you, but you cannot really achieve it fully. Why? Because you will be craving for more and more!

Written by Dóra Nagy

This #FootballPeople campaign from #Farenet made me think more about all forms of discrimination and racism, how I see these things. I came to a conclusion that often I made a mistake thinking others see the world as I do. I think racism and discrimination is a silly thing, yet I've realised that this is still a big issue which needs more attention and we have to give that attention to this until we reach that point this problem is non existent anymore. One important thing to do is to talk to children about this because they are our future. We have to show them at an early age that we are equal. They will grow up with this idea, they will transfer this belief to their kids and then we will be able to erase even just the thought of racism and discrimination once and for all. With a little bit more commitment I really belive this is possible.
Not just during these action weeks I saw how the children are innocent in their way of thinking. On Fridays we always go to the Central park to play some outdoor activities, most of the times we play football with our friends from the refugee camp. It is really heartwarming to see that local kids start to gather around the field to watch us play and eventully they join us making the teams bigger and bigger. And why? Because they don’t see colour, nationality or anything they just see people playing football and having fun. It is simply wonderful to see and experience. I am not a good player but because of this I like playing.
 
Written by Edina Szathmári
 

Σίγουρα απο την μια δεν μπορούμε να μηδενίσουμε όλες τις δυσκολίες μας αλλά απο την άλλη δεν επιτρέπεται να τα βάψουμε όλα μαύρα. Θεωρητικά όλα αυτά ακούγονται πολύ εύκολα, πρακτικά όμως είναι αρκετά δύσκολα. Αυτό γίνεται διότι ποτέ μας δεν ξέρουμε εαν διαχειριζόμαστε σωστά διάφορες καταστάσεις γιατί σε όλη μας την ζωή αποκτάμε νεές εμπειρίες. Γενικότερα τους ανθρώπους τους καθορίζουν οι ανάγκες που έχουν δηλαδή ποια  πράγματα ζητάνε από την καθημερινότητα τους και τι στόχους έχουν βάλει. Όσο πιο στερέες βάσεις έχουν κερδίσει απο το σπίτι τους τόσο πιο υψηλά είναι τα στάνταρ που ακολουθούνε. Με πιο απλά λόγια όταν κάποιος δεν έχει να φάει, δεν έχει κάποια στέγη, δεν έχει ρούχα να βάλει ο πρώτος του στόχος είναι να πετύχει σε αυτό το κομμάτι. Από την άλλη όταν κάποιος έχει τα πάντα ο μεγαλύτερος του στόχος είναι αποδεδειγμένα η εκπλήρωση της προσωπικότητας του.
Η αλήθεια είναι ότι πρίν απο την εβδομάδα #Footballpeople που ξεκίνησε απο τo fare network, στην οποία συμμετείχα ως εθελοντής και συνδιοργανωτής, δεν μπορούσα να φανταστώ πόσο εύκολα μπορείς να χαρίσεις αλλά και να κερδίσεις χαρά. Το αποκορύφωμα των εκδηλώσεων που διοργανώσαμε εμείς στην Ελλάδα ήταν το τουρνουά ποδοσφαίρου ανάμεσα σε πρόσφυγες, ποδοσφαιριστές των ακαδημιών του Πανσσερραϊκού και παιδιά από την Σέρρες. Μάλιστα όταν τελείωσαν οι αγώνες ένιωσα πολύ χαρούμενος, σαν να έδωσα ένα ηχηρό μήνυμα ότι όλοι μας είμαστε ανθρώποι, διότι συνειδητοποίησα πόσο ταλαιπωρημένα ήταν τα παιδιά των προσφύγων και πόσο σημαντική είναι η ισότητα και η καταπολέμιση του ρατσισμού.
                                                                                        Αναστάσιος Βελιγράδης