Each year hundreds of thousands of people mark International Human Rights Day on 10 December by taking part in Write for Rights, Amnesty International’s letter-writing marathon. People from all over the world write letters to demand that the rights of individuals are respected, protected and fulfilled. In doing so, they show solidarity with those suffering human rights abuses and try to bring about real changes to people’s lives.
From Belgium to Benin and Switzerland to South Korea, Amnesty International events took place from 4-14 December 2010, to mark International Human Rights Day.
Also in Poland, many actions were organized all over the country, bringing people together to Write for Rights by sending letters, emails, faxes, SMS messages and tweets, and signing petitions.
On this occasion, we were invited to participate in a Writing Letters Marathon organized by the European School Club of the Gimnazjum im. A. Mickiewicza in Piątkowisko, close to Pabianice.
The Marathon ran from 12 a.m. on the 10th of December until 7 a.m. the next morning. The goal was to write as many letters as possible and the school succeeded, since about 2500 letters were written, so we broke last year’s record of 1800. It was really great for us to be part of such an important event even though we wrote in Polish, so the two of us only managed to write 25 letters each! We spent the night at the school sleeping –very little - on mattresses in a classroom, which was quite an interesting experience too!
The next day, we presented our countries for 5 different classes, so about 120 students aged between 12 and 16 years old.
This was also a great cultural experience for us and allowed us to know more about the Polish culture. Indeed, we were hosted by the family of two students of the gymnazium and got to discover the traditional Polish lifestyle: delicious – and too much - Polish food, Polish hospitality and nice talks by the chimney by a snowy afternoon…
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