The Getting to Know Our Neighbors Project

Students from Hungary

With help from the Open Society Institute, we were able to start a project to combat xenophobia in Central and Eastern Europe.

(Xenophobia means the dislike or fear of foreigners.)

The project is called Getting to Know Our Neighbors, and more information can be found on the TalkConnect.org website.

Students from Slovakia

On May 2, students in Slovakia and Hungary spoke to each other in English during a videoconference held on the Internet.

Before the meeting, students on both sides made presentations about their schools and towns to show to the other side.

The first schools to participate in the project were based in Zvolenska Slatina, Slovakia and Bekescsaba, Hungary.

Our belief is that if young people from different countries, religions and cultures can speak to each other, then they are less likely to hate or distrust each other in later life.

Lasting friendship

This turned out to be case with the young people in our videoconference who were aged 13 to 15.

The meeting was filled with conversations about their school life, their towns, sports and other hobbies.

The young people had lots to talk about and got along very well.

If you or your school would like more information about videoconferences with classes in other countries, then please contact us by following this link.

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