Tell Your Story, Learn Your Rights

When: In early spring of 2023 for 10 days (plus 2 traveling days)

Where: Area of Nestorio, Kastoria, Greece (Exact village TBC)

No of Participants: 5 young people (18-25 years old) & 1 youth leader

Partner responsibilities:
1) Participate in a virtual meeting with the other partners to deal with the practicalities of the project;
2)To recruit and prepare their teams, including one team leader. At least 2/3 of the team should be people without previous experience with non-formal education and/or youngsters with fewer opportunities;
3)To organize one follow-up activity after the end of the Youth Exchange;

Project Description: The project will blend traditional forms of storytelling, as for example the the fairy tale, with more modern like photo-journalism and digital storytelling. The participants will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the different techniques of storytelling, while at the same time they will learn about human rights - their history, significance, cases of violencation of today and of course, which are our human rights.

at the end of the youth exchange participants will be able to create their own stories with the aim of promote human rights and human rights education. Each of the national teams will create a video based on digital storytelling, tackling cases of human rights violations in their countries, regions or even local communities. Those videos will be used as promotional material both online and offline, through the implementation of local dissemination activities.

Project Aims:
-Promotion of non-formal education and the opportunities under the Erasmus+ programme through socio-educational activities for young people, which is particularly beneficial for people with insufficient formal qualifications, people in NEET situation or youngsters with fewer opportunities, and is a means of improving employability and entrepreneurial skills;

-Familiarise participants with Human Rights, the history behind them and human rights violencions today. Human rights education promotes values, beliefs and attitudes that encourage all individuals to uphold their own rights and those of others. It develops an understanding of everyone's common responsibility to make human rights a reality in each community.

ATTENTION: The partner organisations will have to be working with young people from all social/cultural backgrounds (especially youngsters with fewer opportunities, NEETs, and youth in rural and remote areas) at the grassroots level and to be open to realizing activities in their local communities.

If you want to take part in the project and agree with your role and responsibilities as a partner organisation, then please send us your fully filled Partner Identification Form (including the OID) to tetamara.youthgroup@gmail.com. Priority will be given to organisations located in rural and remote areas.

Deadline for answering the call: 21/09/2022

Who we are: Teta Mara is an informal youth group created in early 2022. The initiative was created based on the needs expressed by young people living in remote areas and rural areas around Kastoria. Living in one of the poorest and with the highest unemployed rate areas of Greece, the young people of the group expressed the need to create opportunities to express themselves, acquire skills, and to expand their horizons to new experiences, while fostering active participation and citizenship at the local level. Teta Mara is working at the grassroots level, having always as a priority the needs and interests of the young people involved within. Teta Mara is based at Nestorio but at the same time, it works as a reference point for all the young people of the surrounding villages and settlements, in the area of Kastoria and Western Macedonia.

There are currently 20 people actively involved in the group, either volunteering or taking part in frequent events, with the number growing daily as the group becomes better known in the area. Most of these people live in rural and remote areas, are NEET themselves, or have such people in their circle of friends and family - but most of all, they are people who love their area and want to see it progress and develop.