Over the Globe

Reaching for the stars: a speaking club born in Dnipro

In this episode, Veronika Verloochenko, a high-school student from Ukraine, speaks about her hometown, Dnipro, and about her English speaking club, Star, which now has over 3,000 subscribers on its Telegram channel. How does she promote the club? Who are the volunteers behind it? And what challenges does a person face when creating a new project? Listen to this episode to find out. Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of Classrooms Without Walls, an initiative that provides teens in conflict zones with access to education. If you want to support CWW or learn more about their work, you can visit their website at classroomswithoutwalls.ca. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overtheglobepodcast?igsh=b3h3cWF5a2tkeGV Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559944706107 Follow us on X: https://x.com/Over_The_Globe

Between France and Ukraine: how war reshapes a generation

In this episode, I’m joined by Solomiia Krukivska, a sixteen-year-old from Ukraine, who talks about living with nine other people in a single-floor building in France, her interest in marketing, and how the war has changed our generation.  Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of Classrooms Without Walls, an initiative that provides teens in conflict zones with access to education. If you want to support CWW or learn more about their work, you can visit their website at classroomswithoutwalls.ca. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overtheglobepodcast?igsh=b3h3cWF5a2tkeGV Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559944706107 Follow us on X: https://x.com/Over_The_Globe

Curiosity under fire. Keeping your inner spark alive

In this episode, I’m joined by Sofiia Honcharova from Ukraine, who talks about how she fled to Germany and then returned to Ukraine, science during the war, and how to keep your inner spark alive when it feels like the world is against you. Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of Classrooms Without Walls, an initiative that provides teens in conflict zones with access to education. If you want to support CWW or learn more about their work, you can visit their website at classroomswithoutwalls.ca. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overtheglobepodcast?igsh=b3h3cWF5a2tkeGV Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559944706107 Follow us on X: https://x.com/Over_The_Globe

The world at nine: what adults forget about childhood

In this episode, I am joined by Hannah, a nine-year-old from Myanmar, who talks about what a typical day at school is like for her, what she would like to change about it, and what adults do not understand about being nine years old. Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of Classrooms Without Walls, an initiative that provides teens in conflict zones with access to education. If you want to support CWW or learn more about their work, you can visit their website at classroomswithoutwalls.ca. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overtheglobepodcast?igsh=b3h3cWF5a2tkeGV Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559944706107 Follow us on X: https://x.com/Over_The_Globe

How to save a life when the system fails: from El Salvador to Ukraine

This episode is a little different from my usual interviews, where I speak with a teenager from a war-affected country. Instead, this is a trilateral conversation with Lars Peter Nissen and Ross Skowronski, where the three of us take turns in asking and answering questions. We decided to come together because each of us is involved, in different ways, in humanitarian aid and support for people affected by war. Lars is a humanitarian who has worked with many NGOs over the years, primarily the Red Cross, and is now the CEO of ACAPS, an independent analysis provider that helps humanitarian workers, advocates, fundraisers, and donors make better-informed decisions and respond more effectively to crises. Ross is a Ukrainian raised in Spain who arrived in Ukraine in January 2022 and chose to stay after the full-scale invasion began. He went on to found the NGO Mission Kharkiv, which now focuses mainly on supporting cancer patients in Ukraine. In this episode, we discuss how Mission Kharkiv was created and how it functions today, how witnessing the war in El Salvador inspired Lars to become a humanitarian, what works and what does not work in the humanitarian system, why I started this podcast, and how war shapes the way teenagers see the world. Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of Classrooms Without Walls, an initiative that provides teens in conflict zones with access to education. If you want to support CWW or learn more about their work, you can visit their website at classroomswithoutwalls.ca. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/overtheglobepodcast?igsh=b3h3cWF5a2tkeGV Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559944706107 Follow us on X: https://x.com/Over_The_Globe