Over the Globe

May 20 2024
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This podcast aims to give voices to teenagers from conflict zones. Join a Ukrainian fourteen-year-old, Sofiia Yakymenko, as she speaks weekly to teens from conflict zones all over the world about events that divided their lives in Before and After. 

Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: [email protected]

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From Russian to Ukrainian. Shaping a new personality (Part 2)

May 20 2024 26 mins  
Join Sofia Yakymenko for the second part of an engaging conversation with Mariia Faieva from Ukraine. Shaping a new personality or new habit is not an easy thing. It might be even more difficult if you want to change the language you have spoken since your childhood. However, Mariia managed to improve her Ukrainian and encouraged her family to do the same. Let's discover the reason

From Russian to Ukrainian. Shaping a new personality (Part 1)

May 13 2024 35 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to a fifteen-year-old Mariia Faieva from Ukraine. This is a two-part episode, and in this part, Mariia talks about the changes in her habits after the start of the full-scale invasion, what was her experience of studying in an Italian school like, and which places she started to avoid because of the war. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, no

The art of help. Building a better future for Ukraine

May 06 2024 28 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Anastasia, a sixteen-year-old from Kyiv, about being separated from her parents during the occupation, the changes in her artworks after the start of the war, and working as a moderator at a Ukrainian NGO Smart Osvita.Join the “Ukraine Speaks English” project of NGO Smart Osvita to meet new friends and improve your English together: https:/

Math across borders. Creating instead of ruining

Apr 29 2024 31 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Oleksandr Makarenko about an old house in the Check Republic, the Maths Olympiads in Germany, and a Ukrainian private school: "Basis"Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: [email protected] us on Instagram: htt

Letters of resilience. Writing against despair

Apr 22 2024 34 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Marusya Shcherbyna, an eighteen-year-old Ukranian author, about how teenagers face the war reality, why we need laughter during the war, and her latest book. Listen to Marusya's poem that was transformed into a song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXtKmHuxNoAre you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroa

Lviv in the bomb shelters. Changing through the war.

Apr 15 2024 10 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Sophi Oseredchuk, a sixteen-year-old from Lviv, Ukraine, about the 24th of February for her and her family, the education during the full-scale invasion, and how the war changed her world. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at:

Unresolvable combination: happiness during the war

Apr 08 2024 31 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Dmytro Vareniuk, her old friend and a neighbor when they both lived in Ukraine. Listen to this conversation to hear them talking about school holidays in different counties, the Rubik Cube, car models, and playing the piano. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Ove

SPECIAL ISSUE: Light in the darkness: from the Amazon to Canada

Apr 01 2024 54 mins  
This episode is the first of the Special Issue episodes that will go out every ten episodes. In every episode of the Special Issue, an adult who grew up in a conflict zone or had to leave it being a child tells their life story: their fears, hopes, and successes.Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to David Falconer, the founder and executive director of Classrooms Without Walls: a N

A city on the frontline. Skating through the war.

Mar 25 2024 21 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Polina Borysenko, an 11-year-old from Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city heavily bombarded by Russians, about working at an international humanitarian organization, figure skating, and dreams during the war. Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Conta

From Myanmar to Florida: a Navy cadet with music in heart.

Mar 18 2024 23 mins  
Join Sofiia Yakymenko as she talks to Maggie Maran, the first Over the Globe guest from Burma, about the meaning of the music, an inspiring teacher, prejudices, and life in Florida as a NJROTC cadet.Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: [email protected]