Working five years for an airline in Kyiv, Ukraine, was more than enough for me. I yearned for a fulfilling experience and looked for volunteer opportunities with socially disadvantaged groups. When I found a small youth NGO working with refugee children and rural communities in Gaziantep, Turkey, I thought I ticked all the boxes. I applied several times before finally receiving my long-awaited invitation letter. I started a new chapter in my life, it was challenging but abso

What happens when you submit a paper for the final evaluation? Sometimes you take a 30 cum laude, other times a 28, often times a 26, or lesser grades. And then what? In this blog post, you will read about how a research paper became a day-dream - an event presentation - a project proposal - and now a crowdfunding campaign. The saVE project was conceived between April and June 2021 by a group of students from the University of Padua, with the support of the European universit

“Hasan Tayem, 24 years old, is a successful Jordanian professional blind runner.” My friends describe me as a highly motivated and passionate individual who desires to be a force to change and improve people’s lives around the world. I was born blind and I believe that technology will one day help the 285 million visually impaired people in the world to see and feel the light again. Since I was in high school, I thought about positioning myself to contribute to the communitie