Charter 22 wishes you a peaceful holiday season and a hopeful new 2026!

Life is far too precious 
for us to devalue it
by letting it pass us by empty and hollow, 
without meaning, without love and 
ultimately without hope. 
Hope is not optimism or the conviction 
that something will turn out well, 
but the certainty 
that something has meaning – 

regardless of how it turns out.
(Václav Havel)

What language does hope speak?
The language of hope
cannot be learned in a language course.
Hope knows no language barriers.
The language of hope is Love.
Hope gives strength for the impossible.
Hope lasts for centuries,
overcomes oppression,
disempowers the powerful.
Hope is the weapon of the powerless,
the rubber dinghy of those seeking a home,
the light at the end of the tunnel,
the gap in the fence.
Hope leaps over walls.
Hope is stronger than all borders.
Hope is boundless.
(Johann Pock)

In the middle of winter, I discovered within myself an invincible summer.
(Albert Camus)