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Cuprija Caravan 2014
Cuprija Caravan 2014
Start date: Aug 1, 2014,
End date: May 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
The program is entitled Ćuprija Caravan 2014, because Ćuprija means “bridge.” Just as a bridge connects two banks of a river, it can also connect different people from various backgrounds. This international gathering will help all the participants to recognize change(s) as an opportunity, to make new experiences of friendship, to remain receptive to new ideas and to respect and appreciate the values of others.
Between 2nd August and 14th August 2014, the Luxembourg Girl Guides and Boy Scouts Association (LGS), as coordinating organization, KULT "Spajalica" from Illidza, “Ardhmeria Center” from Klina (Kosovo) as well as the municipality of Zavidovici will will organise an international work-camp and youth exchange in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Up to 59 young adults from Luxembourg and the different partner organizations from the Western Balkan can participate in the peace education and inter-cultural reconciliation project «Cuprija 2014» hosted by the Foundation “Land for Friendship and Peace” on their horse farm in Kakrinje-Rakovica in the Municipality of Ilidza close to Sarajevo.
During this work-camp/youth exchange, all participants work together, irrespective of their religion. Inter-religious and inter-cultural bridges are thereby rebuild between Moslems, Orthodox, Catholics, Roma and Jews in Stolac and Zavidovici in Bosnia Herzegovina and between the participants of the project. The work and animation program, elaborated by the international staff, enables an exchange across different nationalities, cultures and religions between the local populations and the camp participants of the project. Visits across Bosnia-Herzegowina and some of the neighbouring countries complement this program.
The Cuprija Caravan 2014 Youth Exchange camp has been designed long time in advance in order to intensify the exchange among the campers from Bosnia-and-Herzegovina in particular and from the Western Balkan and Western Europe in general. This global organizational impact aims to rise a high quality level by not only encouraging the internal camp exchange but also and after all the enlarged exchange between the camp community and the Bosnian Society, especially among different Bosnian associations issuing a real inner Bosnian exchange in an international ambiance. This dual approach will be intense in the sense of investment of human resources, energy, time and money. However we trust in this aimed internal exchange potential among different partners from different Bosnian cities.
This element of inner-bosnian and even international exchange and travel is represented by he inclusion of the "Caravan" in the title and the concept. The "Caravan " is also showing that the program and activities of the youth exchange take place in three activities centres.