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Giulio, a staff member of Kora and youth worker from Italy, participated in a job shadowing mobility in Türkiye 16.05 - 01.06.2022. The mobility was hosted by Diyarbakır Çevre ve Kalkınma Derneği and the sending organization was Associazione di Promozione Sociale Kora. Giulio also took part in the short staff training course where he learned new methods on how to approach anti-discrimination topics with different target groups. The objective of that job shadowing was focusing on human rights and gender equality and women rights. As the Turkish organization is mainly working with the Kurdish minority in disadvantaged areas, they would like to learn from their experience. Türkiye has also been involved in working with Syrian and other refugees in the area, so there is another learning opportunity for Italians to see how to work in a multicultural environment. Giulio was supported by Saffet who made preparations for his own shadowing experience. During the mobility there was collaboration with several organizations to see deeper the situation in the Kurdish community in the area. There were many learning aspects in this as the younger generation is forced to learn Turkish instead of Kurdish and the native language and culture aspects are repressed. Fortunately there are still many cultural centers who are keeping up old traditions. During the mobility they collaborated with Amnesty International which is a non-governmental organization focused on human rights. They organized a pride flag colors kite flying with youngsters to draw attention to gender equality. It was a useful event for networking and creating new collaborations for the future. Overall, the mobility has several learning dimensions that were mutually useful for both hosting and sending organizations.
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From 11.-21.02.2022 a training course about antidiscrimination took place in Väiko-Härmä village in Estonia. Snowy and icy Estonia was greeting youth workers and active youth from eight different countries. Training course objected ✩ Train youth workers to understand their own identity to discover their own prejudices and stereotypes ✩ Find solutions to cope discrimination resulting from stereotypes and prejudices in youth work ✩ Exchange good practices between participating organizations in diversity education and fight against discrimination (including hate speech online/offline) ✩ Train youth workers to be able to facilitate workshops in non-formal context and foster the use of peer to peer methodology ✩ Prepare workshop plans to be implemented on local level in participating organizations to prevent prejudice based discrimination Beside extremly icy weather conditions really particiants spent really productive 10 days together. Participants could share their experience and thoughts on safe ground. After getting into the topic they were got instructions how to develop their own workshop. All of them also got a chance to implement their own workshop with the group and gaining knowledge of being a trainer. First half of the training course focused on team building and sharing some good practises. Open discussions led to the common ground of the anti discrimination topic. Every morning started with discussion minutes with a learning buddy. It was important part for depicting learning process and it being helpful material for filling in the youthpass. During involving sessions participants gained new knowledge as well as new facts about their peers. In the evening there were reflection groups where in small groups participants could discuss how the day has passed by. Programme also included diversity nights where participants could share facts, folk dances and food from their countries. Participants own experience can be heard from the video People from 9 different countries have joined forces to “Take Action - Together Against Discrimination” for the first partner meeting of the new Erasmus+ Key Action 2 project in Estonia. Our project is funded by Erasmus+ program and will endure 18 months. It aims to raise competences and awareness of youth workers in different areas such as discrimination, hate-speech, diversity, social inclusion and so on.
We have not only discussed about topics related to discrimination and hate speech, but also shared good practices and strategies that each of the organisation uses in their countries to fight against them. Oh, have I mentioned that we also went ice skating, escaped TWO rooms and had magnificent sauna experience? On a first day, we arrived in Estonia in a snowy but wonderful day to meet the representatives of the partner organizations. We spent the whole morning together in Tallinn, getting to know each other while discovering Tallinn. We had fun in escape rooms, some of us learnt/have learned how to ice-skate and tasted some amazing typical Estonian food. Then, with full of energy we left the city and head to our meeting location. Estonian countryside, nature, calmness, snow, and silence but very passion participants. On a second day, we had a fruitful presentation about important and basic details of our project and actions both local and international ones. The working schedule for 2022 has been decided and presented by host organization. Each partner organization shared specific information regarding their context, competences, and expectations in accordance with their work. Thus, we spent 2 very intensive days together discussing and planning about next steps. In this manner, we will have 1 training course for youth workers, 9 transnational job-shadowing, and 2 evaluation meetings more beside many local activities. |
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