The Global Debates

Slovakia

Bake sell to raise money for Christmas at a refugee camp

December 13th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

The students from Tisovec, Slovakia bake Christmas cookies for their bake sale.


“Students from Evanjelicke gymnazium Tisovec have talent” says regional newspaper

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

In the article humorously dubbed as Students from Evanjelicke gymnazium Tisovec have talent the regional issue of SME [Slovak daily] informed about the high school in Tisovec and their public debate and TGD activities. The article highlighted 3 students who were doing something more than just excelling academically. The newspaper then went on informing about [...]


Donate your English language books to refugee camp in Slovakia

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

In her blog Zuzana a member of the Tisovec team, Slovakia describes a situation of 98 Palestinian refugees who ended up in a temporary refugee camp in Slovakia. She describes the life threatening situation in Iraq that forced them to leave and their life now. In order to make her blog story more compelling Zuzana [...]


Handing out leaflets to raise awareness

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

One of TGD service projects organized by the students from Tisovec Gymnazium in Slovakia focused on raising awareness about the bad living conditions of migrants in under-developed countries. The students made leaflets, which you can see on the pictures below.

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Slovakia and migrants – report from 50 years from now…

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

In his blog from future Andrej from Tisovec Gymnazium, Slovakia ponders how would it be 50 years from now if the government of Slovakia committed to a few changes in regards to migrants. The changes Andrej sees as necessary to take place are firstly informing the general public of Slovakia about the contemporary situation in [...]


Slovakia must protect the rights of its migrants!

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

excerpt from Juraj’s blog [Tisovec Gymnzaium]
It is clear that our country is not the self-contained closed community that does not care about world outside its borders. We take many benefits from being interconnected with the world. Therefore we can surely state that our country is an open one. We are working and living on global [...]


Gemerske zvesti report on unique activity of students from Tisovec

December 12th, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

Marek Lukas from Gemerske zvesti [regional Slovak newspaper] reported on the unique activity of students from Gymnazium Tisovec. In his article students in action he reported on the debate students performed in front of members of local municipality and other guests. He also mentioned that the team of 4 students is trying to show the [...]


Debate in Tisvoec attended by 11 elected officials!

December 2nd, 2010 by Veronika | Comments Off

Students from Gymnazium Tisovec (Slovakia) were very content with their public debate that took place on October 27 on the meeting of the local municipal council. Apart from the 11 council members the debate was attended by the mayor, headmaster and other students of their school and citizens of the city of Tisovec. Such a [...]