Stories of hope and joy
Seagull neighbours, forest regeneration and a visit home: Faranak Amidi asks colleagues from the language services to share stories that inspired them in 2023.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ language service journalists share stories and experiences that lifted their spirits in a year with more than its fair share of tragic news.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Russian's Nataliya Zotova explains how an imperious seagull named Agamemnon helped her settle in her new home in Riga, after leaving Russia.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Delhi’s Divya Arya tells us about helping an interviewee who had shared her story of surviving domestic violence and living with significant facial burns, to become a guest presenter for Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Hindi.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Afghan's Aalia Farzan tells us about presenting a schools programme for Afghan children, and being able to return home and see her mother again for the first time since she was forced to leave in 2021.
Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Brasil’s Joao Fellet shares the story of the Japanese Brazilian farmers in the Amazonian state of Pará, who have switched from mono-cropping to agroforestry, regrowing a forest of sorts and providing a profitable model for land cleared by logging.
And Ethiopian-based journalist Kalkidan Yibeltal shares the experience of travelling to the Simien Mountains in northern Ethiopia and experiencing the therapeutic quiet and stillness of the national park, in a year otherwise devoted to covering conflict.
(Photo: Seagull on windowsill in Riga. Credit: Nataliya Zotova, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ)
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Fifth Floor
Global stories from the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s 40 Language Services, with Faranak Amidi