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I chose the story "Ending Harmful Practices through Community-led Social Change in

Senegal" because the issue of FGM/C has always been a very important one for me. The organisation Tostan is one of many that are working on the elimination of FGM/C in Africa. According to the story Tostan was most effictive on this although FGM/C isn't the main focus of this organisation.… Continue

Living in a small flat in a big city might not be the best condition to cultivate a garden...That's what I was thinking for a long time. My parents and grandparents have vegetable gardens in their backyards and I always wanted one for myself.

Last summer I was visting a friend of mine and he had cultivated a "mini-garden" on his balcony.

After seeing that it was possible to cultivate your own vegetables even on a balcony I decided back then that I would give it a try myself.

As… Continue

Inspired by Mission 2 I did some research on food (in)security in Austria.

As Austria is one of the richest countries in the EU I was quite shure that the number of people suffering from undernourishment might not be very high. The statistics I found proofed this to be quite right.

Regarding to FAO Statistical Yearbook 2007/08 the number of undernourished people in Austria is lower than 5%.



Another interesting fact I found out is that while about 13% of Austria's population… Continue

When Alchemy calls me in 2020 I will still live in my hometown. I'll be working as a social worker or a psychologist working with kids or adolescents coming from troubled families.
I'll be very passionate about my work and committed to it.
I'll still be young at heart and enjoy my life a lot.
As I don't have plans of having a family I'll neither be married nor have kids and will therefore be free to instantly follow Alchemy's call.

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