Pupils at a London school have been working with 15 other schools around the globe to help raise awareness about genocides since the Holocaust, following their meeting with a Srebrenica survivor earlier this year.
Day 1: Conflict Memory & Education - a 10 day programme of conversations including @PaulJReilly @decenteredmedia @ksadique1 @pv11Panos @Combat_Films @VinceBevan @leicsparta @robtmcneil @srebrenicahasan #ConflictMemory https://t.co/BWFhHI32oF
#OTD in 1993, Srdjan Aleksić intervened when he saw fellow Serbian soldiers beating his Bosniak Muslim neighbour, Alen Glavović. Sadly, because he intervened the soldiers then turned on him, leaving him so badly beaten that he fell into a coma. His heroic act saved Alen’s life.
These words by the young poet Amanda Gorman at the #InaugurationDay are a good reminder to us all. It takes bravery to be the light in the darkest of days.
“For there is always light, If only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.”