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Another way of looking at the bright side of the corona pandemic is to enact new laws to enforce corporate social responsibility (CSR) to contribute with their fair share in the fight against the coronavirus. This in tun, could help reduce the pandemic culture of inequality which has gripped the world in the past three decades. Enforcing corporate contribution and curbing the greed induced inequality could generate sufficient resources and at the same time inspire renewed culture of compassion, equality and …

Look at the bright side of the Coronavirus II – By Garba Diallo, Director of Crossing Borders Read More »

“We are all in this together” a quote by Lily Tomlin which is often repeated on the internet in regards to Coronavirus these days. A number of inspiring articles on how should we turn this unfortunate situation and lockdown into something meaningful are published every day. I got so much inspired about an opportunity of …

Are we all in this together or not?! – By Martina Popadakova Read More »

While the coronavirus epidemic is putting our lives in turmoil across the world and turning our societies unrecognizable overnight with limited mobility; empty streets, schools, and airports; lockdown of countries; restrictions on our social pursuits and freedoms and militant directives on social distancing in order to urgently diminish its spread, it might just also provide …

Global Reset – A Call to Standing Together – By Helene Guldborg Read More »

The CORONA Quarantine is not only limiting our mobility, bringing our everyday lives in turmoil and breaking down our social pursuits, but it might also expanding our imagination and compassion toward those millions of people whose daily lives in fact have been quarantine for decades, years, months for weeks by powerful people. Sadly, quarantining is …

Look at the Bright Side of the Coronavirus – By Garba Diallo, director of Crossing Borders Read More »

I Am Womanhood I was part of you from the moment you were conceived When you nested in my womb – when you first breathed I fed you, bathed you, dried your tears Let me make this clear I hold you very dear But your domination and ferocity became my greatest fear Reduced to nothing …

I Am Womanhood – By Sarah Diallo on the International Women’s Day Read More »

Like, many other good people around the world, we celebrated International Women’s Day in true Crossing Borders way. in this CB way, some 150 people from many different backgrounds, nationalities, ages, genders, and professions came together under the same roof to shed light and height the lives of women on the move, who have made …

Women on the move – Celebrating International Women’s Day – Crossing Borders Read More »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV6eBdK1AuE On February 6th we held one of our Food for Thought Events and we were excited to hear an inspiring story about the motivation behind Gorilla Media Denmark. We had the honor to have all the “gorillas” present, along with its Creative Director and founder Alex Sabour. Alex shared with us the journey of …

Alex Sabour and the Gorilla Media on Food For Thought – Reflection by Martina Popaďáková Read More »

I spoke to Garba Diallo – the managing director of Copenhagen-based NGO Crossing Borders and self-proclaimed citizen of Globalistan – about how the organisation was created, the value of education and dialogue and his nomadic origins in West Africa. Garba explained the normality of human movement, the dangers of “Hygge Democracy” and, most importantly, why …

Chatting with Garba – By Owen Savage Read More »

Last Thursday, at the first Food for Thought of 2020 Crossing Borders hosted Dr. Samay Hamed. The event opened as usual with a presentation of Dr. Hamed’s experiences in Afghanistan where he has been trying to bring various means of non-formal education and break cultural taboos, all with the ultimate goal of improving the lives …

Reflection on Food For Thought​ with Dr. Samay Hamed by our interns Soren and Owen Read More »

This educational piece, written in 2004 by our Crossing Borders Managing Director, Garba Diallo after attending the UN Earth Summit in Johannesburg in 2002, explains the vital relationship between proper education, sustainable development and the creation of positive global citizenship. Learn more about our role as educators in the context of fundamentally unequal globalization – it …

Education for sustainable development and global citizenship By Garba Diallo, Director of Crossing Borders, Denmark Read More »