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The Parabel of the Starfish

On the beach lie countless starfish washed up by the current. A girl takes one starfish after another into her hand and throws them back into the ocean. When a man comes by he says: “Don’t you see that the entire beach is full of starfish? You’ll never be able to save all of them! What you are doing does not change a thing!” The girl carefully picks up the next starfish from the ground and shows it to him so that he can see its distinctive characteristics and replies to him “For this specific starfish it will make a difference!” and then she throws it back into the ocean as far as she can.

The local school, Gymnasium Großburgwedel, that most of the active education matters members went to, held a charity run. The students chose three nonprofit organisations – one of which was educations matters. You can find a link to the (german) newspaper article below.

Hier finden Sie unseren Bericht für das Jahr 2016 zum Download

In December 2016 the active members of Education Matters met to discuss projects of the passing year, make plans for 2017 and improve our strategies in a detailed agenda.