What an amazing and fulfilling two weeks Humanium just spent in Rwanda! Fourteen workshops in the villages of Rwanda, experiencing child rights from the inside out with 600 children, caregivers, friends of families, local leaders and students. We trained them in skills like deep listening, acknowledgement, connecting, building powerful communities of youngsters that are now […]
Today we are over the moon. Yes, Humanium celebrates its 11th birthday, yes and we celebrate together with today’s 30th birthday of the Child Rights Convention and yes, even louder than before we say: Back to the essentials. Why? Here it is: Each one of us is only a human, a human that suffers, a […]
I was recently interviewed by my colleagues at Lonza Basel where I work as a data protection lawyer for a couple of days per week in order to keep Humanium as fully volunteer service. They were very interested to find out more about our mission and projects, and I got the opportunity to share more […]
Author: Arndt Soret Recently, I was asked, “how do you do what you do?”, as I was talking about the Humanium approach. “Wow… No idea…”, was the first thing I thought. Intuition is what I wanted to say. But I hesitated. Can I use that word when I am presenting to potential sponsors? Don’t […]
When a newborn enters our world s(he) works very hard… “Holy cow, what’s that ? It was so gentle, kind, whole in mom’s tummy and now… yes… what’s that ? No food delivery, tummy ache and… yes… totally dependent… and even worse… helpless…” The first narcissism starts in mom’s uterus, a form of interaction between […]
‘If you would know me and you really know yourself you would not have killed me’ it says at the entrance of the genocide museum in Kigali. Agreed, and that is why Humanium is present here to conduct our workshops on children’s rights twice per year. As mental health professionals we meet teachers, parents, children, […]
Today the world celebrates the non-governmental organisations. Why? Because YOU are important. When I was only 7 years old I heard that 42,000 children die every day for reasons that are avoidable. I went on food strike until my parents threatened me to admit me to hospital and made me understand that even them were […]
.. was the key message of Sierra Leone’s Mellicentia’s speech at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on Friday, 28th of September 2018. Over 20 children (aged between 14 and 17) had the chance to lead us through the various conferences about the world’s problems and solutions […]
This year, from the 30th of July to the 1st of August 2018, together with about 400 children and adults from all over the world, I, Arndt Soret, Co-Founder and CEO of Humanium, participated in the CATS Caux Forum in Switzerland. Children’s Rights in Europe, really ? YES ! Following the latest numbers I learnt a month […]
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