This is what it feels like to help others
Tearing up thistles, shopping for a senior, cooking with refugees and a bike lesson. Our journalists have tried solidarity for themselves.
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Carola Bänziger from Friends on Bikes teaches people who are not yet able to ride a bike. Our author supports and would do it again in a heartbeat.
Photo: Urs Jaudas
Go shopping for the risk group, wear a mask, get vaccinated. “Solidarity” is the word of the hour in the pandemic. We against the virus. But do we still show solidarity with our fellow human beings with the return of normality? As journalists, we didn’t just want to observe and comment on solidarity for once, we wanted to live it ourselves: We took a look behind the scenes of the organizations and people who help others and, wherever possible, tackled it ourselves. This resulted in four personal experience reports.
