Students tell
That’s what the pandemic did to us
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Many people are suffering from the effects of the corona pandemic. Now children and young people reveal how they experience this time – and what it does to them.
The pandemic has been around the world for over a year now. Many people suffer from the effects of the coronavirus for health, financial or psychological reasons. It is not always easy, especially for children and young people – they live in an exceptional situation. Due to the school and daycare closings, they lacked social contact, and homeschooling presented them and their parents with new challenges. It is often more difficult for them to cope with this extreme situation than for adults who have more life experience.
Students make themselves heard
In the book “School in Corona Mode – Impressions and Experiences from Schoolchildren”, more than 400 schoolchildren from 44 schools put their experiences and feelings on paper. The book, which gives an authentic insight into the mood of young people, was written by the Action Hessen helps as well as Tobias Greilich. The children and young people recorded their thoughts in the form of diaries, poems or comics. As editor has Action Hessen helps an editorial revision is dispensed with, since an “unadorned picture of the mood” is to be reproduced. You can read the most moving quotes from the students here.
Students about the pandemic
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Sad comparison – Lisa
“School in times of Corona is like a slaughterhouse, only dreams are slaughtered instead of animals.”
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Worried
“I am afraid that my loved ones will contract the virus and that I will lose them as a result.”
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“The Corona Time” – Lola
“For me, the Corona time is a time in which you have to live very restrictedly and you can meet very few friends. […] I felt very sad because I wasn’t allowed to go to school. I had to do home schooling. But I also had a bit of fun because I could sleep in and because my teacher sent my class and me cool videos. “
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Diary – Emely
“I miss my classmates, my teachers, and even the class.”
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“It’s your own fault” – Alexander
“The people are to blame for the Covid 19 pandemic. They are just choking the earth off the air, with their wars and their air polluting machines, they litter the earth and then they are surprised that the earth is defending itself.”
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Stress – Tyler
“I only make slow progress with the tasks, it really stresses me out.”
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The desire for freedom
“I’m afraid that normality will soon look completely different or that it will stay the way it is now. That the restrictions will remain. That freedom will remain. OUR freedom.
Action Hessen helps
In 1991 the initiative Action Hessen helps Founded by students in Hessen for the victims of the civil war in Yugoslavia. Since then, the association has provided humanitarian aid in 30 countries around the world. “Wherever there is a need and we have the opportunity to help, we make our contribution – usually on-site ourselves”, says the organization’s website. With “School in Corona Mode”, she is now giving young people from elementary school to high school age the opportunity to have their say.