Asociace TOM ČR, TOM 21105 Dumánci

TOM 21105 Dumánci was created to gather youth workers to give them a legal opportunity to participate in the educational process of young people. We have officially worked with children and young people for six years, but Dumánci has existed for more than nine years now. Most of our activities were carried out on regional or national level. We organize activities for young people including summer camps and various trips to raise their interest in culture, art, history, etc.
To contribute to professional development of your youth workers, we take part in Erasmus+ - mobility of youth workers projects. Some of our members have already participated in these projects in other countries and we have so far also organized two Erasmus+ project in the Czech Republic and we are currently preparing new projects for the upcoming year.

During the year TOM 21105 Dumánci organizes weekend activities for young people on different topics. Mostly we try to bring youth to the nature for beneficial work, various sport activities or games. The goal was to lead children to realize that they can have fun without computers and alcohol – and even while working.
In summer we organize children summer camps. This year we also organized an international summer camp with five children from Spain. That means all children had to communicate in English all the time and they improved they language skills a lot.
Over the year we also make excursions to visit museums and other educational centers. We want to make children interested in culture and motivate them to protect cultural heritage (we already have some thoughts on how to promote this idea in a more active way). Some of our activities also focus on film-making (we are organizing a youth exchange on this topic this spring) and media and we develop media literacy amongst the children.
We use different approaches to teach children and young people and significantly contribute to the process of shaping their personalities.
Many people from our organization have already participated in Erasmus+ projects and we have organized two training courses for youth workers in the Czech Republic. Our members gained a lot of useful experience on working with children, but also leading projects and follow-up activities (we can share these with our partners and therefore contribute to any project we participate in).

We are currently preparing some new projects for the upcoming year and are looking forward to more intercultural activities.

Nowadays our organization consists of 30 active members, but we could also count up to 100 passive members. You can find information about our organization on our website www.dumanci.cz.