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One of the first days at school we asked the children, what would you like to become? Most of the children answered with: “I want to be a teacher, a doctor or an engineer”.

This time a post from the heart, something which indicate the opposite side of seeing the difference between chances people have or doesn’t have.

You probably never heard about it before, but we are here! This weekend the first six members (Joost, Jos, Thijmen, Peter, Ruben and Siebe) of our project team arrived in Guyana.

Seeing news about all the events happening lately in Europe and the Middle-East makes me realize that both worlds have to live with insecurity. We experience the sense of insecurity relatively recent, but we all know there are places in the world where people have been living with wars for centuries.

I start counting my days, just less than one week before take-off, with an in between pit-stop in Athens, I will arrive Wednesday in Beirut. My friends and family are asking me, what are you going to do? Can’t you just go to Spain or France? What are your expectations? Those are the most common questions I get.

This summer I will join the Nour project of AEISEC, which is a volunteering project with the aim to ‘bridge the gap between the Arab and Western world’.