Building Walls Breaking Walls
Start date: May 1, 2016,
End date: Oct 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The hosting organisation for this application , Mahon Project Ltd, has played in key role in the development and implementation of a version of 'Building walls Breaking walls' youth exchange concept with it successfully being held every summer since 2013 in Switzerland. In 2015 Mahon Project Ltd. successfully applied for (February 2015 deadline)and implemented this proposed youth exchange 'Building walls Breaking walls' which took place on Cape Clear Island in West Cork in September 2015. The hosting organisation now again wants to bring this youth exchange to the south west of Ireland through the assistance of this funding application. The vision is to bring16 young people (part-funded through the Erasmus+ programme) from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine (plus 4 young people from Switzerland who will be funded separately by the Swiss government) together on Cape Clear Island off the south west coast of Ireland for 8 days in July 2016 to repair and build dry stonewalls as an inter-cultural youth project. They will share approaches of inter-cultural and interfaith encounter whilst also learning this traditional craft. They will support the development of local traditional infrastructure and culture while learning the methods of dry stonewalls building. All of the countries involved have a heritage of dry stone walls and all have inter-cultural challenges and barriers and degrees of conflict. They will also participate in the preparation and cooking of food and cleaning the accommodation and will experience outdoor leisure and social activities.Through this youth exchange the participants will increase their inter-cultural experiences and competences while building the dry stonewalls together with young people from different societies that have to deal with separation walls and cultural boarders in a challenging or diverse cultural area. Therefore, they will have a strong inter-cultural and interfaith learning experience while representing stonewalls culture from the various countries.
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