This week, RealStars visited Nacka gymnasium and the International English Gymnasium in Södermalm. At Nacka gymnasium, a lecture was given for a class that studies Hotel and Tourism. The following discussions were therefore focused on RealStars work within the hotel sector; how hotels can work together and how the travelling industry can play an active… Read more »
Trafficking is a violation that is performed by ordinary people. It is devastating to hear that 8% of all men in Sweden have contributed to this figure, by paying for sex. It is shameful, disgusting and absurd for these actions to proceed, and to miss out the larger problem. To be so incompetent and uncomprehending… Read more »
Foto: Anna Lindeborg On the West coast, the school visits continue. Today, I held a lecture at the Drottning Blankas High School in Kungsbacka. The majority of the school’s students from all grades were gathered. A total of 100 students attended the lecture. Many students signed the petition to help us in our work against… Read more »
Graduating students at the Media Upper Secondary school’s photo-branch were asked to create pictures with the purpose of counteracting the demand of sexual services, and to increase the awareness of how the demand for such services is the primary reason trafficking and the sex trade exist. The goal was to have an effect on the… Read more »
During the past year, Real Stars has visited nearly a hundred high school classes in the Stockholm and Gothenburg area with lectures and workshops on the theme of trafficking and Fair Sex. Participation is a key ingredient in the project and in addition to art, we have received many suggestions on how to reduce trafficking… Read more »
In May, Realstars went to Dalarna to make a visit to St. Michael’s School in Mora, but also to Skattungbyn a couple of miles outside Mora where the local cultural association organized a public lecture for the village citizens. At St. Michael’s School we gave a big lecture and organized a workshop with students from… Read more »
The graduating photography students from Media gymnasium are portraying today’s Sweden based on their own impressions and experiences. The exhibition has various themes, such as identity, lifelong love, social media and the ambivalent relationship between urban and rural areas. The exhibition also devotes an entire room for the theme Fair Sex – against trafficking and… Read more »
Every week, RealStars visits an average of two schools in order to inform about trafficking, sex trade and their contrast: Fair Sex. This subject has always generated strong feelings and reactions, but of late a new perspective has surfaced: the disappointment over how little subjects such as these are addressed at school. While some subjects… Read more »
Students from the Frida Upper Secondary School in Vänersborg. Lately RealStars have been conducting several mass lectures at upper secondary schools, among others for the entire Frida upper secondary school in Vänersborg and Drottning Blankas upper secondary school in Kungsbacka. Both lectures were for approximately 150 students. At the Frida school we also conducted practical… Read more »
Last week RealStars visited a senior class at the Nacka upper secondary school in Stockholm to lecture on trafficking and to host a workshop where students were invited to reflect and participate in the advocacy work for Fair Sex – on equal terms. The class was separated into smaller groups, which during four minutes had… Read more »
