You are the world
Start date: Aug 1, 2015,
End date: Apr 30, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
The Youth Exchange "You Are The World" was carried out in September 2015 in Czech republic and the organizing organizations were ICM Slaný (YIC) under DDM OSTROV Slaný and Armenian Open Society, a.s. There were 28 Young participants from Czech republic and Armenia, the group was gender-equal and the age range was from 17 to 30 years. Their goal was to look at the world problems of today and reconsider their own attitude towards them. As a result of their work, they created a common country "Noneedia" (as it has no needs), where things were solved ideal way, and they tried to live up to the standards of it. The standards were not only about nature, therefore about sorting waste, saving resources etc., but also about interpersonal relationships, about respecting different cultures, tolerance towards diverse points of view and effort to make them co-work creatively.
The participants organized two activities in local town. They cleaned nature around river Lužnice in Bechyně, and visited Elderly house. By both actions they not only changed something in their surroundings but also showed the people around them that Young people care and if they can do something, everybody can do 'the same' as well.
The outputs are a documentary video about the exchange which you can find at the address below, and also long-term cooperation between the Czech and Armenian organizations, who have already plans for the future.
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