Életképek
Start date: Aug 1, 2015,
End date: Dec 31, 2015
PROJECT
FINISHED
Roma people face difficult situations everywhere they go, because they experience discrimination and prejudices in every country. They have to bear such a condemned status that further worsens their bad and disadvantaged situation both physically and mentally. In child protection, there are numerous children at a young age, who daily suffer from the outer society?s negative behavioral patterns. This condition is worsened in their cases, because they lack a secure domestic background. Shortly, we can state that they don?t have a normal life. However, it would be a false assumption even if we hear such kinds of statements in our daily lives. Thus the target group of the project consisted of those youngsters who are in the scope of child protection system. During the implemented youth exchanges, youngsters had debates on discrimination and how to avoid it, and shared experience related to discrimination. This was all to be done in order make them strong against their own failure on one hand, and make them aware of their own legal rights for protecting their and the society?s interests, on the other. During the exchange, we lead the participating youngsters to this direction and stressed their local level interest representations, interest protections and activities. Besides these, we wanted to make further steps towards forming the youngsters? mind frame so as to make them capable of managing conflicts and putting their anger aside. During the exchanges, we improved the youngsters? knowledge, competencies and behaviors through non formal pedagogical methods. With these methods, they underwent such change that will be useful in the later stages of their lives. In the frame of the project, they created and edited a brochure, titled as ?Életképek? (Memories of life)
Organizations from the four countries implemented two 10-day-long exchanges with 32 disadvantaged participants. The exchanges took place in Levelek, Hungary and Ada, Serbia. The youngsters were accompanied by group leaders and a facilitator who will supported them in the learning process.