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So
far we have realised projects:
- Youth in action!
(2005) ...
- Because it's different (2005)
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- Because it counts! (2004) ...
- Tools for action (2004) ...
- Cukcoo Eggs(2002) ...
- Youth Summer Camp, Goc (2001)
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| YOUTH IN ACTION !
(2005) |
| WHY?
We’ve asked youngsters:
What is the concrete thing
that you want to change in your surroundings?
Maybe that would be the they (don’t) participate in
the life of their city and making decisions that are connected
to them; maybe that would be a problem in their surroundings,
that now lasts for a long time because they didn’t manage
o find people who’d share their ideas; maybe they’re
not sure how to do that in their own town...
An NGO “Hajde da...”
from Belgrade and “Forum
for Civil Action” (FORCA) from Pozega initiated
an action that will include young people from Novi Beograd
and Pozega, giving them the opportunity to find out how can
they participate in life
of their city, how can they cooperate
with local institutions, NGOs, how can they plan
and implement actions for improving young people’s
life in their community.
By this program, we want to support
the young in their efforts to contribute to development of
the cities they live in, in order to create
the society that will appreciate proactivity, initiative,
cooperation, creativity...of youngsters.
Young people, aged 17-25,
who will take part in this program, will have the opportunity
to learn on the real examples of the youth groups from other
parts of Serbia, to discuss with the representatives of local
government, acquire knowledge and skills that are necessary
for creating and implementing of small projects in local communities
and, finally, they’ll be also financially supported
in realization of their local actions.
METHODOLOGY AND PROGRAM DYNAMICS
Program is consisted of:
- education for active
citizenship – that will take place in Soko Banja,
August 7th-14th, 2005 for 40 young people from Pozega and
Novi Beograd;
- planning and preparation
of local actions - (September and part of October)
- realization of youth
local actions in Pozega and Novi Beograd - (part of
October and November)
Perticipants are obliged to actively participate during the
whole project. Those who successfully complete the Program
will get the certificate of the participation in the Program.
Project is supported by Balkan
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| "BECAUSE IT’S DIFFERENT"(2005) |
... is realized DURING FEBRUARY AND MARCH
OF 2005, as a part of the project “Alphabet
of Tolerance for the Young”.
Program is offering the possibility for learning and developing
basic intercultural skills, attitudes and values. The idea for
this program has been arising gradually – the first step was
work of the “Hajde da…” Group with children in Roma Center “April
8th”.
A set of educational psychological workshops was originally
meant for primary school children and later it spread to working
with teachers through the “Alphabet of Tolerance – Education
and Implementation”, that had got credential of Ministry of
Education and Sports of Republic of Serbia. Based on our previous
experience in working with children and teachers and as an answer
to the need of young people to be proactive in their communities,
we’ve created a pilot program, meant for youngsters and namet
it “Because It’s Different!”.
This program offers a chance for learning and developing of
basic intercultural skills, attitudes and values.
Main themes and phenomena treated by the program are:
discrimination, prejudices, stereotypes, distribution of power,
human rights etc. Participants were 39 young people, aged 16-25.
Project consisted of four days of interactive workshops; participant
showed a high level of motivation for active participation,
share their experiences and contribute to quality of the learning
process.
They were particularly satisfied with the topics and the way
they were dealt with. Visits
that were organized were an extra value of this program: they
were nice opportunity for gaining more intercultural experiences.
The first visit was to the “Old Belgrade Town”, where, at the
very beginning of the program, we had the opportunity to learn
more about the multicultural reality of Belgrade and get to
know the fact that its contemporary looks was influenced by
Romans, Turks, Austro-Hungarians… During the second visit, we
saw the Bajrakli Mosque, Jewish Municipality, synagogue, Russian
Orthodox Church and Catholic Church, where our hosts (some of
whom were the participants of our program themselves) introduced
us with political attitudes, believing, legends, customs and
traditional holiday meals characteristic for their religion.
The third visit took place in the British Council, where our
guests from NGO “Enfants” from Berane, Montenegro, presented
their activities and work in the field of supporting inhabitants
of Roma settlements in Berane and Rozaj to include themselves
in formal-educational system and complete primary and secondary
school, in order to have larger possibilities to find a job
and accomplish their rights.
Results of final evaluation,
at the end of the program, showed that change has been attained
– young people who participated our program afterwards had better
understanding of phenomena such as: prejudices, discrimination,
stereotypes.
They learnt a lot about human rights and their attitudes concerning
minority groups and “differences” became more tolerant. Participants
also became more aware of the fact that there are numerous minorities
living in Belgrade and that they face lots of problems in their
everyday life.
It is especially important that many of the participants were
motivated for continuation of working themselves, feeling that
there are various ways for initiating a non-violent action against
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| “Because it
counts!” (2004) |
Group is another contribution to process of youth
policy development in Serbia. Our intention was to gather
useful inputs and we decided to do it by means of action research,
this time. It was conducted during workshops of Personal empowerment
program with 3 groups of young people.
What issues worry/inspire young people in Serbia today? What
expectations youth has from policy makers on local and national
level? What ideas young people can offer?
First phase of this one-year project was three-month educational
program of personal empowerment. It was realized with three
groups of young people from 3 Serbian towns.
Since multicultural social setting is our reality and for the
reason of cultural rights and intercultural processes being
synchronized by youth policy, we deliberately pick three towns
with distinctive multiethnic features – Subotica,
Pancevo and Nova Varoš.
Program of personal empowerment
is based on contemporary methodological principles of good non-formal
education for youth. It includes voluntary participation, use
of participatory methods, fostering of cooperation within group,
learning from personal experience and learner-centeredness.
Non-formal education mustn’t be regarded as an opposition
to official school system, but as quality supplement of formal
education, the one that achieves long lasting results with fewer
resources because it is flexible, practical and always in touch
with ‘real life’.
We also, from the beginning of March 2003, start a media
campaign in order to raise sensitivity of majority population
for youth problems and to help active participation of citizens
in search for solutions that should improve life of young people
in Serbia.
Furthermore this campaign will be aimed to support National
Youth Policy and Strategy development in Serbia and also
the process of building of institutions that will adequately
represent young people. Campaign will be presented on local
levels of three municipalities as well as on the national level.
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| »TOOLS FOR
ACTION« - INTERCULTURAL CAMP(2004) |
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„Hajde da...“ Group
has organized the „Tools for Action“ Camp, on
the Rajac mountain.
The Camp will be attended by high school students from Vukovar,
Pancevo, Subotica and Nova Varoš. The main idea
of the Camp is for participants to acquire skills
which are necessary for managing their local actions and giving
them the opportunity for intercultural learning, having in
mind that the Camp will gather together young people from
various parts of Serbia and Croatia.
All of the participants will have the chance to present the
culture and customs of the region they come from and, at the
same time, to get to know those from the other communities.
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| "CUCKOO EGGS
" (2002) |
is the name of mutual project
of "Hajde da..." group, ‘Center za pomoc mladim’
association (Ljubljana) and ‘Mirovni Inštitut’
(Ljubljana). It was realized at the beginning of May 2002. The
project is dealing with youth problems and possible ways of
solving them.
The method of work applied with these young people was method
of interactive and creative workshops. Twenty young people from
Slovenija and Serbia were gathered in a camp in Ankaran. Final
presentation of the project and participants’ work was
organized in Ljubljana, May 6, 2002. Another “Cuckoo Eggs”
project is planed for next year.
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| Youth Summer Camp,
Goc (2001) |
During the first half of
August 2001. members of "Hajde da…" group organized
their first camp. The participants were young people from Kraljevo
and young people of the same age who came to live in Kraljevo
from Kosovo and Metohija.
At the end of August and October we were their guests. Participants
of the Summer Camp were our hosts; one group organized visit
to Vrnjacka Banja and the other two-day field trip to Stolovi
with accommodation in mountain cottage. Time spent in the country
and good mood characterized our reunion, just as it was during
the Summer Camp.
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