TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Laetitia Barbry
In the framework of the international Campaign that is coordinated by CCIVS with the title “Raising Voice – Raising Peace”, ELIX organized a Peace Action Week on the rights of Migrants & Refugees and the right to citizenship.
Our project aimed not only at building peace and fostering migrants’ integration by increasing intercultural sensitivity, but also at improving active participation and commitment among youth.
Objectives:
More specifically,
- To promote a constructive debate where participants will have the opportunity to share their views freely thanks to a peer to peer approach;
- To bring the participants to an active reflection on the topic through non formal education activities and experiential learning;
- To promote mutual understanding among the participants by encouraging them to approach intercultural dialogue with tolerance and open-minded attitude;
- To expand participants’ knowledge about human rights;
- To put the participants in contact not only with actors who are working with refugees and migrants, but also with refugees and migrants themselves;
- To empower the participants - and through them other actors in their communities of origin - by strengthening their skills, in particular the ones needed to organize effective raising awareness actions, projects and events at local, national and international level;
- To encourage participants to take action in their own countries.
27 participants from 8 different countries and 12 nationalities.
3 trainers.
The participants had the opportunity to have a reflection on the issues that we face in our daily life and to be an active actor through non-formal education and a street action.
By sharing our opinion and taking part in activities, it enabled the participants to expand their knowledge and to get to know more about the situation of migrants and refugees in our society. With non-formal education activities, we could be able to understand the obstacles and difficulties that migrants and refugees face in their life and the aims of Peace Action Week. During the street action which was one of the most important activities in this training, the participants had the chance to communicate and to interact with people who had different views on our topic, which had a huge impact on participants and encouraged us to take action in our own countries following the Peace Action Week.
Many of the participants actually implemented a street action once there were back in their realities.
there is facebook group for the participants of the various Peace Action week: in order to create a network and support community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/767913240011814/
and a following campaign developed the work started: https://raisingpeacecampaign.wordpress.com/humanrightsthematics/rights-of-migrants/
I was one of the 3 co -trainers