1. Love and Tolerance
Avgorou Technical, Vocational, and
Agricultural School
COMENIUS MULTILATERAL PROJECT
2012-2014

2. What is Tolerance?
• Tolerance is when we can put up
with people who don’t have the
same opinions with us, or who do
not look like us or who not live
like us. It makes us see the other
side of things.

3. What is Love?
• Love is a feeling of affection we
have for someone. When we love
someone we don’t criticize them
and we don’t make fun of them.

4. Love and Tolerance

7. Love and Tolerance in Cyprus
• Our society needs to take a united stand to raise
awareness about Love and Tolerance
• Because of the economic crisis people have realized
that solidarity and cooperation are vital to overcome
the difficulties the crisis has caused.
• Cyprus Aid - Joining Voices Solidarity Concert: From
4 pm until midnight on 1 April, about 50 artists from
different musical backgrounds, from Cyprus and
Greece, united their voices to express their practical
support to the people of our country.

8. • A massive crowd of 20,000 people turned up
with an overwhelming amount of food
• People from all over the island began
gathering at 4pm at Constanza moat in
Nicosia.
• Volunteers members of the Cyprus Scouts
Association and other organisations created a
human chain as they received bags of food,
packed them in boxes and loaded them onto
trucks. The goods gathered were sorted out
and distributed to people who needed them

9. Solidarity and Hope
In this way
we tried to
convey to
the outside
world a
resounding
message of
our solidarity
and hope.

12. Love and Tolerance in Avgorou Technical,
Vocational, and Agricultural School
• Different communities
The students of our school come from nine different
communities and each community has its own
stereotypes and mentality. However, they have managed
to coexist and cooperate at school.
• Different football teams
Each community has its own football team and even
though sometimes they are overexcited about them and
they start arguing, it does not affect their interpersonal
relations.

13. Love and Tolerance in Avgorou Technical,
Vocational, and Agricultural School
• Different political views
Even though our students have different political views
they don’t fight about it and they try to respect each
other’s point of view.
• Bullying (a form of violence)
Bullying is a very serious matter in schools in Cyprus and
unfortunately our school is not the exception to the rule.
There are bullies in our school who adopt aggressive
strategies in negotiating their interpersonal conflicts. The
forms of bullying we mainly have in our school are verbal
and physical.

14. Conclusions
• The person who learns to be open to
differences will have more opportunities in
education, business, and many other aspects
of life.
• Success in today's world — and tomorrow's —
depends on being able to understand,
appreciate, and work with others.

15. Quotes about Love and Tolerance
• Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are
life-altering lessons.
Jessica Lange
• Tolerance is giving to every other human being,
every right that you claim for yourself.
Robert Green Ingersoll
• Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the
forefront of my music.
Bruce Springsteen
• Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare