How do children at school in Armenia understand volunteerism and humanitarian work? What are their emotions when they see people who suffer? Do they understand that in order to help others, money is not necessarily needed? Together with Trygve we had a couple of school visits where we presented International Red Cross organization, also had a discussion about humanitarian work and volunteerism.
I was surprised that none of the children could explain what does it mean to be a volunteer. We talked about human suffering, tried to find out reasons why there are so many people who suffer, children also made plans how could they help others now. In the end of our little seminar one of children said: “It seems that during this hour we bacame much better because his topic touched our feelings and now we are more aware of human suferring”.
Children were very excited to participate in the exercise with the cloth where they left their handprints with promise not to violate human rights.
