Over the Globe
This podcast aims to give voices to teenagers from conflict zones. Join a Ukrainian sixteen-year-old, Sofiia Yakymenko, as she speaks weekly to teens from conflict zones all over the world about events that divided their lives in Before and After.
Are you a teenager from a conflict zone, now living in your home country or abroad and want to be interviewed for the Over the Globe podcast? Contact us at: over.the.globe.join@gmail.com
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Episodes
111 episodes
Reaching for the stars: a speaking club born in Dnipro
In this episode, Veronika Verloochenko, a high-school student from Ukraine, speaks about her hometown, Dnipro, and about her English speaking club, Star, which now has over 3,000 subscribers on its Telegram channel. How does she promote the clu...
Between France and Ukraine: how war reshapes a generation
In this episode, I’m joined by Solomiia Krukivska, a sixteen-year-old from Ukraine, who talks about living with nine other people in a single-floor building in France, her interest in marketing, and how the war has changed our generation. ...
Curiosity under fire. Keeping your inner spark alive
In this episode, I’m joined by Sofiia Honcharova from Ukraine, who talks about how she fled to Germany and then returned to Ukraine, science during the war, and how to keep your inner spark alive when it feels like the world is against you....
The world at nine: what adults forget about childhood
In this episode, I am joined by Hannah, a nine-year-old from Myanmar, who talks about what a typical day at school is like for her, what she would like to change about it, and what adults do not understand about being nine years old.Over...
How to save a life when the system fails: from El Salvador to Ukraine
This episode is a little different from my usual interviews, where I speak with a teenager from a war-affected country. Instead, this is a trilateral conversation with Lars Peter Nissen and Ross Skowronski, where the three of us take turns in a...
From Uzhorod to Maine: carrying Ukraine across borders
After the start of the full-scale invasion, Roman was forced to flee Mykolaiv and relocate to Uzhhorod, where he began volunteering to support people going through challenges similar to his own. In September, he moved to the state of Maine in t...
A childhood in contrast: growing up in Myanmar
In this episode, eleven-year-old Anna from Myanmar shares her perspective on the situation in her country, while also talking about Chinese New Year, badminton, and her love for Stray Kids.Over the Globe is a podcast created as part of C...
Holding on to home: between Bucha and Sumy
In this episode, I am joined by Anastasiia Semylit, a sixteen-year-old from Sumy, Ukraine, who was forced to flee to Bucha in 2024. In this episode, she shares what life in Bucha is like, what it means to take a seven-hour train journey back to...
Running through uncertainty: sport during the war
In this episode, I am joined by Kira, a sixteen-year-old from Ukraine, who talks about what her athletic training is like during the war, how she feels during competitions, and how writing helps her cope with the current situation.Over t...
From student to teacher: reclaiming education
In this episode, Zainab from Afghanistan takes us on a journey from studying Public Policy and Administration at Kabul University, to being denied the right to education, yet continuing to pursue it, receiving scholarships from American univers...
Episode 100: echoes of war across time and space
Over the Globe has reached 100 episodes. To mark this milestone, I’m taking a step back to reflect on the first 99 and trace the common threads running through these stories. What challenges do people in the countries I’ve covered face most oft...
Lessons in the dark: the reality of online learning
In this episode, you’ll hear from Maryam Rasouli, a teenager from Afghanistan, speaking honestly about what comes after an education ban: the weight of despair, the stubbornness of hope, and the quiet strength that comes from not letting the re...
From Rivne to Kyiv: a ticket to change
In Episode 98 of Over the Globe, Daria Prymak takes us from the quiet streets of Rivne, where opportunities for young people can feel limited, to the fast-paced, unpredictable life of Kyiv. She also shares how she found her voice through Youth ...
Homework in the shadows. A future built online
In this episode, Fatima shares what it means to keep learning when education is forbidden. Despite the Taliban’s ban, she continues studying online, pursuing both the British A Levels and the American school system, while reflecting on the diff...
From Afghanistan to Indonesia: a classroom in exile
When the Taliban banned girls’ education, Zahra’s world went quiet. For a whole year, she sank into depression, unable to study, to plan, or even to imagine a future.But little by little, hope found its way back. She started attending le...
A backpack full of home. Finding your people
In this episode, Kateryna Panasenko, a teenager from Ukraine, opens up about what it feels like to study at a Ukrainian school in Spain - to carry home with you, even when you’re far away from it. We talk about scouting, the friendships and cha...
From Portugal to Ukraine: a story of coming back
When you’re a child, fleeing your country because of war can feel strangely unreal - almost like an adventure you never asked for. That’s how it was for Anastasia Kravchuk. She had always loved travelling, and moving to Portugal felt exciting: ...
When the music stops. A voice from Gaza
Bana’s home in Gaza was destroyed, and she was forced to move again and again - until she ended up in the Nusierat refugee camp. There, she has been unable to go to school or to dance dabka, the dance that once made her feel truly free.L...
From Pokrovsk to Ohio: where Miner’s Day meets Thanksgiving
Sasha grew up in Pokrovsk, a city in Donbas where Miner’s Day mattered more than New Year’s and summers meant sleeping in tents at scout camp. In August 2024, everything changed: Pokrovsk moved to the frontline, and Sasha had to leave for Kyiv....
Global Encounters: finding community across borders
In this episode, we meet Manezha - a young woman who refuses to let restrictions stop her from learning, dreaming, or helping others. Despite everything, she continues studying English and even teaches it to Afghan girls who otherwise wouldn’t ...
SPECIAL ISSUE: Surviving Sarajevo: a journey toward understanding war
Maz was only ten years old when the Bosnian War erupted, and his hometown of Sarajevo fell under siege. He, his mother and his brother eventually managed to flee to Germany on a UN convoy, escaping under heavy bombardment, while his father - a ...
From Donetsk to Kyiv: surviving the strike
About three years ago, on 17 November 2022, a Russian rocket hit the building where Po - now seventeen - still lives. In this episode, Po talks about that horrific day, how their family was forced to flee from Donetsk to Kyiv with two small chi...
Hope in every lesson: inside Classrooms Without Walls
This week, Over the Globe tries something new. Instead of one guest, you’ll hear a chorus of voices from a group of Afghan girls studying with Classrooms Without Walls (CWW). We open with David Falconer, CWW’s founder and executive director, wh...
From Mykolaiv to Michigan: the American dream
Ever wondered what it’s like to live and study in the United States?In this episode, Oleksandr from Ukraine — currently a FLEX exchange student in Michigan — shares his experiences of life in the U.S. What are Americans really like? What ch...
The secret field: a place where hope still plays
Living with eight sisters and one brother in a traditional, religious family wasn’t always easy, but Saima found joy in her studies — and in football, which she played secretly so her parents wouldn’t find out. When the Taliban banned girls fro...