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Involved Youth for Better Future
Involved Youth for Better Future
Start date: Aug 2, 2012,
This project is a reflection from the lack of awareness of the youth workers and leaders to bring the poverty and marginalization notions to the youth work. Poverty interacts with social exclusion in important ways and it has been recognized as the key challenge of our time. If the aim is to have an inclusive society, where everyone participates and engages with societal and governmental processes, then it is necessary to encourage or create a system where socially excluded groups become active in the social, political and economic process and the success of a society. Empowerment is based on the following idea: through active participation people undertake responsibility for and take control over their own life. This project aims to develop youth workers and leaders inclusively work skills, teaching them for the most attractive activities which are used in the field of social inclusion and active citizenship. In sense to include poor and marginalized young people in youth work activities, youth workers have to offer them something they find attractive. Participants will be taught how to use attractive methods in order to secure participation of the marginalized young people in youth projects. Street animation and campaigns methods such as street theatre, flash mob, clowning, Poi Poi, jogging, face painting, carnivals, are of the appropriate and efficient methods which can reach any groups in the local community and make changes. Also non-formal education, practical case-studies, role play exercises and discussion will be used. 300 marginalized youth from different groups and ethnicity from the Roma community are expected to participate in the final performance of street animation, aiming to send various messages for awareness rising. From 20-29 August In Struga, Macedonia, the training course will gather 30 young people from 10 countries (Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Lithuania, France, Slovenia, Poland and Turkey)