Cook your future

This youth exchange will be held in Samothrace Island in summer 2020 - involving a group of deaf, hard hearing and hearing youngsters - aiming to experience and promote a sustainable lifestyle with the main focus on food.

Through a diversity of activities we will explore and question food consumption and production issues, as well as share and discover alternatives.

What’s on the menu?

-Ice-breakers, team-building, energizers, creative free time…
-To calculate our footprint / foodprint
-To identify the nature of our products: season, origin, type of agriculture, composition, producers, certification labels …
-Cooking sessions: we will take our time to cook, each national group will cook a dinner and presents its culinary habits, participants will be involve in the preparation of the meals, we will discover recipes made from wild edible herbs and zer0-waste ones
-Foodwaste all along the supply chain
-To understand different diets
-Meeting local producers and sharing their activities
-Finding / Growing our own food?
-Food packaging
-Transversally: sharing about needs, limits and solutions in our personal life and communities
-Creation of (an) "awareness campaign(s)" as an effective dissemination tool for our networks and communities
-Outdoors connection: accommodation in a camping, outdoor sports (kayaking, hiking), nature creative activities
-International sign language sessions

We are looking for reliable partners, ready to promote active eco-citizenship! Your organizations should:

-work with hard of hearing and deaf youngsters
or
-agree to empower some participants with these characteristics and a sign language interpreter

And have few/some experience in at least one of this topic:

-inclusion
-environmental awareness
-food awareness
-nature connection
-behavior change

The application is almost ready but we are willing to get feedbacks and improve it together.

If you are interested to take part in this project please send us a mail: alterego.ngo@gmail.com
Explain us your motivations, experiences, activities you could lead... Do not hesitate to make questions and suggestions

We wish to apply for the deadline of October