Ubuntu
“I am what I am because of who we all are”: compassion, kindness and humanity that connect us together by sharing ourselves with others and caring for those around us

I AM because YOU ARE is a 7 days (except the travelling days) training course designed for 28 youth workers, leaders in 7 different organizations from Europe. The training will be held in Baia Mare, Romania between 14-22 March 2016, the main organizer being Federatia YMCA Romania with partners from Macedonia, Bulgaria, Italy, Ukraine, Serbia, Albania. The Project is funded by European Union through Erasmus Plus Program.
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Partners: YMCA Bitola –Macedonia, YMCA Gabrovo – Bulgaria, YMCA Serbia , YMCA Tirana – Albania, YMCA Ukraine, Informal group Vagamondo – Italy.

Discrimination is frequent and can have many forms, ranging from gender, religious, social, ethnic, or racial discrimination to forms related to more specific characteristics such as profession, sexual orientation and other personal preferences. Although both solid and emerging democracies are making tremendous efforts into education societies and promoting values such as equality, acceptance, tolerance, peace and cooperation, often these messages are misunderstood and neglected, leaving human nature to burst out in the most unappropriate and unpleasant ways.
Human rights issues concern the whole of a person (body, mind and soul) and all dimensions of life from cradle to grave. The whole person lives in the whole world where everything is inter-related; human rights education necessarily involves a holistic learning approach, an open ended learning, cooperative learning and learning through experience. All these approaches will be experiencing in our training.
Through this training we want to offer sustainable working tools for all the young leaders and organizations participating, in order to help their work with partners, volunteers and beneficiaries in the context of human rights, democracy and equality. During the training, our experts in communication, human rights, human behavior, multi-ethnic policies, intercultural learning, peace & peace building, will create the proper space for learning and developing skills and strengths adequate for the this field.
Also through this project we will raise the quality of the youth work of the people involved and partner organizations, they will have more tools and skills in order to implement it in their programs related to the topic, or create new ones, or participate in awareness raising campaigns, proposing policies, etc. This quality also reflects in the development of programs and services for youth provided by these organizations, which lead to capacity building and movement strengthening.
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This training program is designed to promote, teach and develop values such as acceptance, equality, tolerance, commitment, engagement, care, compassion and empathy. During this training participants will acquire a set of skills and competences that will contribute to their work in cultural diversity contexts where acts of discrimination still occur, human rights are not always respected and democratic values and principles are misunderstood or not put into practice: human rights and values, critical thinking, peace building, non violent communication, media graphic facilitation, intercultural leaning.
Objectives:
– improves the skills and key competences of young people, intercultural dialogue, social inclusion through learning mobility of those actively involved in youth work and youth organizations through strengthened links between youth field and labor market;
– fosters quality improvements in youth work through enhanced cooperation between youth organization and stakeholders
– enhance the international dimension of youth organizations &role of youth workers as support structures in complementarity with EU`s external action, promotion of mobility and cooperation between EU and Partner Countries .

Through this training we offer sustainable working tools for all the young leaders and youth workers and organizations participating, in order to help their work with partners, volunteers and beneficiaries in the context of human rights, democracy and equality.
Through this project we will raise the quality of the youth work of the people involved and partner organizations, they will have more tools and skills in order to implement it in their programs related to the topic, or create new ones, or participate in awareness raising campaigns, proposing policies, etc. This quality also reflects in the development of programs and services for community provided by these organizations, which lead to capacity building and relevancy for the served communities.

Please find here the Infoletter together with application form:I am because you are INFOLETTER