100 - Christiana Bukalo

Another planet not impacted by human activity

I grew up in Germany, and was born as a person who was stateless, a person who doesn't have a nationality. That was something that shaped my life, but I didn't really notice as a child, I noticed that things were different. At some point, when I grew up, the statelessness kind of caught up with me and that led to a situation in which I decided to focus more on the issue. I am now the founder of an organisation that is called Statefree and we work to empower stateless people by building community by creating visibility for the issue and also by realising the access to equal rights for them. In politics, we are currently very much focused on the German and European space and our goal is to make sure that people who are stateless in Germany, (122,000 people) are represented. We educate politicians on the reality of statelessness and collaborate very closely with members of the German parliament to define and identify the different parts of legislation that need to be changed in order for stateless people to actually have access to rights.

My mum who allows me to offload my stress and busyness.

Whenever I am surrounded by trees or mountains.