What’s the first thing that comes to our mind when we talk about heroes? Why do we consider someone a hero? Discipline wouldn’t come to most people’s mind first. This story shows, though, how expectations full of love and intentional parenting make heroes out of our parents. To introduce my heroes, I must go back to my childhood…and I am lucky enough to think of my mum and dad as heroes. I was not a good kid at all. I did a lot of mischief, and I was also lazy and self-righteous. Music was always important in my family. My dad is still the organist in our local church. My parents soon noticed my musical talent when I was a child, and they wanted me to improve it. Beside music, improving my school records became my other priority. My parents divided the tasks between them: my dad would assist my musical studies, and my mum would help me better my grades. I found maths extremely difficult, and my mum sacrificed her whole summer to tutor me. Each day she worked with endless pa...

I was 13 years old when I arrived in Belgium to live with my father. Moving to a different country meant changes in all fields of life: different traditions, different culture, different language. In order to go to school, first I had to learn a completely different language. After that I continued to study and get a qualification. Everything went well, I started to feel at home. One day I found out that I was pregnant. I was 16 years old. This was a very hard time at school. I was ill a lot and missed my classes and exams. At the age of 17 I gave birth to my daughter. I will never forget the first moment when I hold her in my arms. I stayed at home to take care of her and didn't go back to school.*  When I was 18, I went to the social welfare office to see if me and my daughter could get some financial support, which we got. This made it possible for me to move out and go to live on my own with my little daughter. I've been a single mom for almost 2 years now. It...

In the frame of Roma Heroes workshop, the university students from Nyíregyháza were thinking about tradition, family, advantages and disadvantages of early marriage. What they brings with them from home to their separate life and what they leave behind, what are the traditions that they oppose? All these questions provided a rich soil from where the youngsters could grew out this story. Vanda Túró tells a tale in an authentic, visceral and humorous style, a story written together with her peers. The love triangle is an age-old topos but it is rarely intertwined with heroism. In the love story The Lakatos Sisters, we learn about real sisterhood. (Edina Dömök and Vivien Balogh) Cameraman: Alina Vicze. Video editing and designed by Tamás Boros

According to Barbara Tonté, founder of  Romani Gastro  blog, the everyday heroes, who feed us and cook for us, often remain unnoticed and unrecognised.  Video by Nikolett Csányi The discussion have been realized in the frame of the 'Rikardo cooked something - kitchen, fashion, culture in the 8th district' event organized by the Goethe Institute Budapest .