Salma Harraz - Algeria

A suit, a backpack, earphones, gloves and plastic bags. These were several Adel Merghem, 16, and his companions, for a volunteer clean-up in one of the forests of Algiers.

Previously, the place for the members of the group was only a space for practicing sports, but not after February 22, the date of the beginning of the movement, the tide of change was launched for Adel and his friends, and will stop only at the station "New Algeria".

The challenge began at the Bouchaoui Forest Park in Algiers after a group of high school students answered the invitation of Adel, a future baccalaureate exam student, through a group he called "New Algeria" on the application of "Instagram", and the response was great.

Comrades did not care about the amazement of those who were then in the forest collecting plastic bottles, leftovers and other waste products from those who passed by, and those looks quickly turned into admiration and hope for a better tomorrow at the hands of these people.

Adel said of his group in an interview with Al Jazeera Net, "one of the staff at the palm beach in Algiers stopped me when I was cleaned, and shyly told me that it was his mission originally, and apologized to me for default, and promised that it will not repeat in the future .. My happiness was great because I influenced someone "His age is double my age, which in turn will affect others. This is a great success for me."

Adel and his companions during a clean-up campaign in the Bouchaoui forest

Politics is not our game
Our difficult interviewer at the start of the school season admitted that volunteer initiatives to help poor families, clean up the ocean or feed the homeless were not his priorities before, but the signs of change revived him and Taqah said that the stadiums were only an outlet for them. They find another way to contribute to nation-building, but far from politics, it is not important or a game for those of his age, but through his voluntary group "New Algeria", whose slogan was inspired by the crisis of the Algerian national anthem, "We are determined to live Algeria."

As for the designation, Adel adds to Al Jazeera Net, `` My grandfather and my father have always told me that their young Algerians were better than we know today in all things, and this is unfortunate, but there is hope in our hands the Cubs of the homeland to build Algeria that does not resemble those known by our parents and grandparents. ''

High schools were the field of adolescents eager to make change away from the adult world. In the holy month of Ramadan, they made what they could not even the charities supported by the official authorities, collecting a large amount of food with the contribution of school children from their own expenses and with the help of their parents.

Satisfaction cannot be described as having fasting, like all fasters, thanks to the youngest teenagers as young as 14, while the eldest is only 20. "The union makes miracles and our strength in our solidarity." Just say.

The group "New Algeria" collected food from what was unable to accredited associations (Al Jazeera)

Our strength in our solidarity
Because solidarity makes miracles, as Adel and his close companion, Raouf Sawsha, said, participating in the orphanage's restoration on the outskirts of the capital was one of the most beautiful human experiences experienced by comrades.

The volunteer initiatives of the group, which arranges its papers and upcoming projects through social media chat groups, continued to collect Eid clothes for the children of poor families, blankets and mattresses for patients in a hospital in Algiers after it was flooded by the recent rainfall, and launched a new campaign to collect winter clothes before the start of Cold season, prepare hot meals twice a month and distribute them to homeless people, emphasizing the rejection of material aid to avoid any doubt about the fate of funds.

Expansion of projects
Adel speaks with great enthusiasm about many of the projects he dreams of materializing in the field, such as recycling and spreading the culture of avoiding the use of plastic products to preserve the environment and others, despite his preoccupation with the study and the intensity of the study program in the final year of the Steering Division, wishing if the day is longer than 24 hours, But he adds that it is enough for contagion to be transmitted to change, even in simple things, which can shape the fate of a nation.