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By Rikko Voorberg, Director of the Network

Holidays feel strange sometimes. The people we work with often can’t afford any break - or have the difficulty of continuous boredom and no work to take a vacation from.

The reality of people on the move in Europe can be grim and the work of migration practitioners is never ending. Still, if I can’t take care of my own - and my own family, who am I to suppose I can be of support to someone else? It’s often easier to help someone else take time off than to do it myself. 

If it’s really hard to stay away from the job, maybe you can find a place in a forest or near the water to read; Alexander Kustov for example, ‘in our interest, how democracies can make immigration popular’. Or migration-mythbuster Hein de Haas' ‘How Migration Really Works’. But maybe you just need good literature, poetry or music - or nothing but the sound of nature, friends and loved ones. 

A World of Neighbours is as a community of practice both fighting evil and living a bit of the future we hope to see - diverse, personal, joyful and real, interdependent and honest. And we learn every day new things on how to do this. Happy to announce in this newsletter our new ‘Human Connector’ and our Youth branch! Thank you all for making it happen with us.