Once upon a time in Sombor...

We went to Sombor to show our movie and talk about experience in Serbia...

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-> 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.