EMPATHY BOOK

Team 1

Bilge Yılmaztekin
Turkey

drawing by Raluca, Harau, Romania

A polar bear on a piece of ice (trying to survive)...

My home is getting smaller day by day. Because of global warming, I won't be able to survive.

Gül - Şehit Doğan Sevinç Secondary School, Turkey
(teacher - Bilge Yılmaztekin)

How would you feel?

I feel upset about it and I feel ashamed because I did many things to increase global warming. And due to global warming, polar bears are losing their habitats.

Oktay-Kızlan Secondary School,Turkey
(teacher - Çiğdem H.Tahmas)

What can be done
to help?

We can begin by holding much more campaigns to warn people to stop global warming.

Volkan-Kızlan Secondary School-Turkey
(teacher - Seda Kömpe)

Team 2

Çiğdem
Hanım Tahmas
Turkey

Carla, 7 th grade
Scoala Gimnaziala “I. L. Caragiale” Medgidia, Romania

A squirrel in the burning forest (trying to survive)

Fires are a huge threat to wildlife. Fire destroys breeding sites of many species of birds and animals. Insects die in the flames, which reduces the number of pollinated flowers and, consequently, a reduction in plant yields.

Oktay-Kızlan Secondary School,Turkey
(teacher - Çiğdem H.Tahmas)

How would you feel?

I would feel petrified, and anxious. I would be worried for my family.

Ibb Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa Secondary School Istanbul - Turkey

What can be done
to help?

We can contribute to the financing of emergency helicopters.

Milenium Primary School, Poland

Seda Kömpe
Turkey

Drew by Sara
Harau, Romania

Team 3

Immobilized in a wheelchair, student S. is an example of willpower in her struggle to overcome her disability. She is very positive and her optimism is contagious.

Mihai, 7 th grade
Scoala Gimnaziala “I. L. Caragiale” Medgidia, Romania

How would you feel?

I would feel limited and isolated in the relationship with my schoolmates

Alessandra Cicero, IC G. Rodari
Italy

What can be done
to help?

Her classmates pay a lot of attention to her and behave carefully towards her, helping her to move.

Ioana, 7 th grade
Scoala Gimnaziala “I. L. Caragiale” Medgidia, Romania

Team 4

Drew by Hüsra - Kızlan School, Turkey
(teacher - Çiğdem H.Tahmas)

Tatiana Iacob
Romania

A classmate who says a tooth hurts him...

My friend's teeth hurt because he ate a hard candy.

Ibb Barbaros
Hayrettin Pasa Secondary School
Istanbul-Turkey

How would you feel?

I feel upset for hım/her. I want to do something to make hım/her happy. Because I think people forget their injuries when they are happy.

Kader, Kızlan Secondary School
Turkey (teacher - Seda Kömpe)

What can be done
to help?

I help him/her go
to the dentist.

Serra, Şehit Doğan Sevinç Secondary School
Turkey (teacher Bilge Yılmaztekin)

Jolanta Zamoyska
Poland

Drew by Defne
Ibb Barbaros Hayrettin Pasa
Secondary School, Istanbul,Turkey

Team 5

Jolanta Zamoyska
Milenium Primary School, Poland

A child with down syndrome can find various forms,
showing attachment and emotional intelligence.

How would you feel?

I would feel “special” and I would try to embrace and kiss my friends all the time.

Francesca Filice, IC Gianni Rodari Italy

What can be done
to help?

She might be involved in “special” activities related to the emotional sphere, like praising her schoolmates or giving them gifts or kisses when they do well.

Alessandra Cicero, IC G. Rodari
Italy

Team 6

Berna Efeoğlu, Ukraine

Drew by Weronika Redlińska
Milenium Primary School, Poland

There is a war in the neighboring country. People have to flee to your country.

Efe, Şehit Doğan Sevinç Secondary School
Türkiye

How would you feel?

I would feel disappointed and in danger.

Georgia
29th Primary School Volos
Greece

What can be done
to help?

We can organize campaigns to put pressure on governments and undertake the responsibility to protect every single person’s rights. They must make sure that refugees and migrants are safe and are not tortured, discriminated or left living in poverty.

Athina
29th Primary School Volos
Greece

Team 7

Filitsa Fragogeorgi
Greece

Drawing by Francesca, IC G. Rodari
Italy

A student gets teased and pushed near the wall by other kids. You're a kid watching this interaction.
This is a situation of bullying in which some kids deliberately misuse their power in their relationship with the other kid through physical and social behavior that intends to cause physical, social, and psychological harm.

Filitsa Fragogeorgi
29th Primary School Volos, Greece

How would you feel?

I would feel compassion and empathy.

Gerasimos Tsibloulis
29th Primary School Volos
Greece

What can be done
to help?

To help a bullied colleague we can tell the teacher. We also have to tell the person who uses physical violence that it's bad and unacceptable. It is really bad so we have to help.

Łukasz Ostrowski
Milenium Primary School Poland