"INCLUSION?! Are we doing the BEST we can DO?
Dear All!
My name is Daniel Martins, i am from Portugal.
I am just finishing to perform as trainer a TC in Mersin, Turkey, where the main aims of the project was to increase the involvement of Youth with disability and other special needs on the YiA, as well as to promote the programme as a TOOL for Youth Workers, Social Workers and Youth Leaders to more and better work in their organizations, mostly working with disable youth.
Fortunately for me, i got the opportunity to have in a group of 20 participants , 2 are disable (was the first time)- Zeliha the responsible and head of the project, she have a physical disability, and Devrim, blind since he born, 30 years ago.
Maybe some of you have an idea how challenge was it, to arrange the tools, the materials, to manage the motivation of the group and to respect the flow planned for the TC taking in consideration the aims defined.
The reason i am writing for all of you it´s to remind you the some issues we still have to solve concerning with INCLUSION and INVOLVEMENT OF YOUTH WITH FEW OPPORTUNITIES as a TOOL for INTERCULTURAL LEARNING and NON-FORMAL LEARNING for ALL!!!
Some question i am keeping in my mind day-by-day i am hard working on this field:
Are we providing all the conditions we can provide to involve ALL? navigating in some of the websites of the National Agencies in our Programme Countries i can´t find out how a blind youth can get the information, the some on the EACEA website, as well as SALTO, something that always surprise me taking in consideration that we (as a member of the pool) are all days around Europe, and not only, promoting the EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES, the INCLUSION... for WHO are we providing the INCLUSION? are we the MAIN resource to promote the non-formal education for ALL in Europe or not? Who is ALL for us? Remark for YOUTHPASS, are ALL able to fill it in their own as recognition of individual learning under Non-formal methods? i don´t think so!
Devrim (the blind participant i spoke above in this reflection, he told me after i asked how he want to receive the supports of the TC (i was thinking to record some guidelines in voice track) "Dani, can you provide for me the material of in Word format? because for us (blinds) it´s easily to get the information because exist a software which could read the documents"... WHY we still provide almost all the information in PDF?
Zeliha, the Responsible of this Training Course which have a a visible physical limitation, during the preparation told me that the AIM for her it´s to have projects that involve disable and non-disable in youth, becuase she believes that it´s the only way for INCLUSION of Youth with disability - not so ambitions and doesn´t look hard to get it... but why are we still so in the beginning after almost 10 years with YiA (before on the YP) and LLP with the "flag" of INCLUSION.
...she said - "almost all the projects are disable with disable!! Dani, are this a good way for INCLUSION?"
The truth is... I HAVE NO ANSWER for her, taking in consideration that we are running quickly for 2009 (21st Century) almost living in the MOON .. and still NOT ALL can have access to the LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES (the most simple ones) that we can offer.
It´s not a lesson or training sesion i wanted to do with this reflection, but i am SURE that we can do MORE and BETTER concerning with this. No more than 5% are the youth with disability involved in he YiA and, personally, i have serious doubts that the majority of projects are WE supporting promote the values we defined as EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY for ALL in the perspective of REAL INCLUSION.
Have a nice work.. we still have to much to do!
DaNi"
25/08/2009
18/08/2009
Once upon a time in Sombor...
We went to Sombor to show our movie and talk about experience in Serbia...
Have a look on the articles :
-> In today Serbia (http://www.serbiatoday.info/index8_files/Page8567.htm)
“Youth Mobility”
By Ljiljana Samardzic
Sombor, August 13, 2009 (Serbia Today) – “It is the right time that youngsters take hands out of their pockets, stop just criticizing and start doing something”, said Alexander Oparnica, Serbian volunteer from European Volunteer Service (EVS).
The end of Summer is getting closer and program for young people in Sombor is warming up now, unlike for the past 13 years. The traditional event “Summer in Sombor” was cancelled this year, to the surprise of Sombor’s citizens. Why was it cancelled is still unknown. It could be due to the “popular” excuse of economic crises, but it also could be due to irresponsibility of town’s Youth Board, who said nothing officially when large amounts of money were spent on “uncultured” events instead of cultural, educational and entertaining programs for young people, which usually last during the whole summer. But, then again, are young people, citizens of Sombor, guilty for their immobility and unwillingness to stand up for themselves?
In order to prevent future similar tragedies, few nongovernmental organizations decided to give possibility for young people to entertain by the end of summer 2009. The open conversation with a subject “Youth mobility” was held on August 10th with an aim to inform and to stimulate young people to act and to fight for better tomorrow.
As introduction to conversation two amateur films, made by volunteers from EVS, were shown. Titles were creative and represented the main problems in Serbia – “I can’t come back if I don’t go” and “You in action”. In the movies, young people from Serbia expressed their opinion about European Union, becoming its part, globalization, nationalities and alike. After movie projections, participants could openly discuss the same matter – mobility of young people and general problems youth encounter in Serbia. Guests were four volunteers from EVS– Irene Bertozzi (Rome, Italy), Emmanuelle Allais from France, Carmine Loru from Italy and Alexander Oparnica from Serbia.
Miss Bertozzi said that she “never thought that mobility is the biggest problem here. Finding a job, as one cause of immobility, is a problem not only in Serbia, but in other European countries as well. But the difference is that we can seek for job in any other country. So, the current major immobility cause of Serbian youth is obtaining a visa.”
Being in this situation, young people are in pessimistic mood. “The bad point that I saw here is lack of hope for better life. Many people don’t understand that politics is not the only thing that affects your life. It’s not politics that chooses for you, you can choose as well, and you can change your own world here”, said Miss Bertozzi for Serbia Today. It was good to hear that those young people from European countries didn’t find coming to Serbia shocking and that the greatest difficulty was the language.
Based on a wish to activate and stimulate young people in Sombor, local non-government organizations provided an interesting program for 12th August, called the International youth day. “Music on wheels” is one of the planned attractions where young people are invited to come with their bicycles, skates and roller-blades in order to follow the band performing on four locations in town. Afterwards, the exhibition of photographs on the subject “Young People in different ways” will be held. There will be 165 photographs from 39 authors from many Serbian cities, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the end of the program, a literary evening is announced.
This confirms the statement of Mr. Oparnica that “large money funds are not necessary to organize, to do and to succeed. “
-> From So Info (http://www.soinfo.org/viewtopic.php?p=30174)
Tribina na temu mobilnosti mladih u Domu omladine označila početak Somborskog leta za mlade.
Sinoć u dvorištu Doma omladine održan je javni razgovor na temu mobilnosti mladih. Tribina je imala za cilj da se mladim Somborcima obrate volonteri iz Italije, Francuske i Srbije koji su nekoliko meseci proveli u drugim državama, stičući iskustvo, učeći druge jezike i kulture drugih naroda, kao i da se prezentuju dva kratka filma koji se bave sa ovom tematikom. Mladi su imali priliku da pričaju sa stranim gostima o njihovim iskustvima, utiscima pri putovanju u druge zemlje, prednostima i manama života u Srbiji i zemljama Evrope.
O svojim iskustvima volontiranja u Srbiji i Francuskoj govorili su: Bertozzi Irene (Italija, ARCI), Carmine Loku (Italija, ARCI), Emmanuelle Allais (Francuska, Inžinjeri zaštite životne sredine) i Aleksandar Oparnica (Srbija, UG „SOB”).
Na tribini su prikazana i dva dokumentarna filma: „Beyond” i „Ne mogu se ni vratiti ako ne odem”. Prikazani filmovi nastali su kao rezultat saradnje stranih volontera i organizacija u Srbiji, ustanova i pojedinaca. Organizator ove tribine je UG „Somborski Omladinski Boom”.
-> From http://www.somborskenovine.co.rs/e-novine/pdf/br.2877/strana08.pdf
POČELO “SOMBORSKO LETO ZA MLADE”
TRIBINA
“MOBILNOST
MLADIH”
Tribinom na temu “Mobilnosti mladih”, koja
je održana u sredu u Domu omladine, počelo
je “Somborsko leto za mlade”, koje ogranizu-
je sedam nevladinih organizacija koje se bave
mladima i Kancelarija za mlade. Nemogućnost
mladih u Srbiji da često putuju, studiraju i obi-
laze druge države i narode, predstavlja veliki
problem koji je prepoznat u svim strateškim
dokumentima Srbije. Tribina je imala za cilj
da se mladim Somborcima obrate volonteri
iz Italije, Francuske i Srbije koji su nekoliko
meseci proveli u drugim državama stičući
iskustvo, učeći jezike i kulture drugih naro-
da, kao i da se prezentuju dva kratka fi lma
koji se bave ovom tematikom. O svojim isku-
stvima volontiranja u Srbiji i Francuskoj govo-
rili su: Bertozzi Irene (Italija, ARCI), Carmi-
ne Loku (Italija, ARCI), Emmanuelle Allais
(Francuska) i Aleksandar Oparnica (Srbija,
UG “SOB”) . - Mladi su nepobitan činilac za
postavljanje sveta u Somboru i Sombora u sve-
tu – naglasio je Oparnica na tribini.
Prikazana su i dva dokumentarna fi lma:
“Beyond” (2009) i “Ne mogu se ni vratiti ako
ne odem” (2008), koja su nastala kao rezultat
saradnje stranih volontera i organizacija u Sr-
biji, ustanova i pojedinaca.
Velika posećenost pokazuje da je tema pu-
tovanja i obilaska drugih gradova i zemalja
veoma aktuelna među mladima u Srbiji, ali i
ukazuje na potrebu da se organizuju slični pro-
grami za mlade – saopštava Odsek za protokol
i informisanje.
Have a look on the articles :
-> In today Serbia (http://www.serbiatoday.info/index8_files/Page8567.htm)
“Youth Mobility”
By Ljiljana Samardzic
Sombor, August 13, 2009 (Serbia Today) – “It is the right time that youngsters take hands out of their pockets, stop just criticizing and start doing something”, said Alexander Oparnica, Serbian volunteer from European Volunteer Service (EVS).
The end of Summer is getting closer and program for young people in Sombor is warming up now, unlike for the past 13 years. The traditional event “Summer in Sombor” was cancelled this year, to the surprise of Sombor’s citizens. Why was it cancelled is still unknown. It could be due to the “popular” excuse of economic crises, but it also could be due to irresponsibility of town’s Youth Board, who said nothing officially when large amounts of money were spent on “uncultured” events instead of cultural, educational and entertaining programs for young people, which usually last during the whole summer. But, then again, are young people, citizens of Sombor, guilty for their immobility and unwillingness to stand up for themselves?
In order to prevent future similar tragedies, few nongovernmental organizations decided to give possibility for young people to entertain by the end of summer 2009. The open conversation with a subject “Youth mobility” was held on August 10th with an aim to inform and to stimulate young people to act and to fight for better tomorrow.
As introduction to conversation two amateur films, made by volunteers from EVS, were shown. Titles were creative and represented the main problems in Serbia – “I can’t come back if I don’t go” and “You in action”. In the movies, young people from Serbia expressed their opinion about European Union, becoming its part, globalization, nationalities and alike. After movie projections, participants could openly discuss the same matter – mobility of young people and general problems youth encounter in Serbia. Guests were four volunteers from EVS– Irene Bertozzi (Rome, Italy), Emmanuelle Allais from France, Carmine Loru from Italy and Alexander Oparnica from Serbia.
Miss Bertozzi said that she “never thought that mobility is the biggest problem here. Finding a job, as one cause of immobility, is a problem not only in Serbia, but in other European countries as well. But the difference is that we can seek for job in any other country. So, the current major immobility cause of Serbian youth is obtaining a visa.”
Being in this situation, young people are in pessimistic mood. “The bad point that I saw here is lack of hope for better life. Many people don’t understand that politics is not the only thing that affects your life. It’s not politics that chooses for you, you can choose as well, and you can change your own world here”, said Miss Bertozzi for Serbia Today. It was good to hear that those young people from European countries didn’t find coming to Serbia shocking and that the greatest difficulty was the language.
Based on a wish to activate and stimulate young people in Sombor, local non-government organizations provided an interesting program for 12th August, called the International youth day. “Music on wheels” is one of the planned attractions where young people are invited to come with their bicycles, skates and roller-blades in order to follow the band performing on four locations in town. Afterwards, the exhibition of photographs on the subject “Young People in different ways” will be held. There will be 165 photographs from 39 authors from many Serbian cities, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the end of the program, a literary evening is announced.
This confirms the statement of Mr. Oparnica that “large money funds are not necessary to organize, to do and to succeed. “
-> From So Info (http://www.soinfo.org/viewtopic.php?p=30174)
Tribina na temu mobilnosti mladih u Domu omladine označila početak Somborskog leta za mlade.
Sinoć u dvorištu Doma omladine održan je javni razgovor na temu mobilnosti mladih. Tribina je imala za cilj da se mladim Somborcima obrate volonteri iz Italije, Francuske i Srbije koji su nekoliko meseci proveli u drugim državama, stičući iskustvo, učeći druge jezike i kulture drugih naroda, kao i da se prezentuju dva kratka filma koji se bave sa ovom tematikom. Mladi su imali priliku da pričaju sa stranim gostima o njihovim iskustvima, utiscima pri putovanju u druge zemlje, prednostima i manama života u Srbiji i zemljama Evrope.
O svojim iskustvima volontiranja u Srbiji i Francuskoj govorili su: Bertozzi Irene (Italija, ARCI), Carmine Loku (Italija, ARCI), Emmanuelle Allais (Francuska, Inžinjeri zaštite životne sredine) i Aleksandar Oparnica (Srbija, UG „SOB”).
Na tribini su prikazana i dva dokumentarna filma: „Beyond” i „Ne mogu se ni vratiti ako ne odem”. Prikazani filmovi nastali su kao rezultat saradnje stranih volontera i organizacija u Srbiji, ustanova i pojedinaca. Organizator ove tribine je UG „Somborski Omladinski Boom”.
-> From http://www.somborskenovine.co.rs/e-novine/pdf/br.2877/strana08.pdf
POČELO “SOMBORSKO LETO ZA MLADE”
TRIBINA
“MOBILNOST
MLADIH”
Tribinom na temu “Mobilnosti mladih”, koja
je održana u sredu u Domu omladine, počelo
je “Somborsko leto za mlade”, koje ogranizu-
je sedam nevladinih organizacija koje se bave
mladima i Kancelarija za mlade. Nemogućnost
mladih u Srbiji da često putuju, studiraju i obi-
laze druge države i narode, predstavlja veliki
problem koji je prepoznat u svim strateškim
dokumentima Srbije. Tribina je imala za cilj
da se mladim Somborcima obrate volonteri
iz Italije, Francuske i Srbije koji su nekoliko
meseci proveli u drugim državama stičući
iskustvo, učeći jezike i kulture drugih naro-
da, kao i da se prezentuju dva kratka fi lma
koji se bave ovom tematikom. O svojim isku-
stvima volontiranja u Srbiji i Francuskoj govo-
rili su: Bertozzi Irene (Italija, ARCI), Carmi-
ne Loku (Italija, ARCI), Emmanuelle Allais
(Francuska) i Aleksandar Oparnica (Srbija,
UG “SOB”) . - Mladi su nepobitan činilac za
postavljanje sveta u Somboru i Sombora u sve-
tu – naglasio je Oparnica na tribini.
Prikazana su i dva dokumentarna fi lma:
“Beyond” (2009) i “Ne mogu se ni vratiti ako
ne odem” (2008), koja su nastala kao rezultat
saradnje stranih volontera i organizacija u Sr-
biji, ustanova i pojedinaca.
Velika posećenost pokazuje da je tema pu-
tovanja i obilaska drugih gradova i zemalja
veoma aktuelna među mladima u Srbiji, ali i
ukazuje na potrebu da se organizuju slični pro-
grami za mlade – saopštava Odsek za protokol
i informisanje.
04/08/2009
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