Amsterdam, Jan - Our ‘Displaced’ Youth Exchange will start tomorrow. Our participants live in Romania, Greece, Spain and The Netherlands, but have families of different origins, such as Kosovar, Armenian, Albanian, Moldovan, Argentinian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Spanish, Moroccan and many more. Each country will bring five participants and one youth leader. The Netherlands will also have former participants involved, teaching the new participants what they learned.
A bit about the project
The youth exchange aims at providing young first or second-generation young migrant women living in the Netherlands, Romania, Greece and Spain with video and photography tools to allow them to create and tell their own stories, as well as control their own images of representation.
Organizations
This youth exchange is made possible by four organizations, with the main support of the European Commission’s Youth in Action programme, SPE Amsterdam and our many volunteers, donors, supporters:
VOW Media is an international non-profit organization that is committed to providing women from marginalized communities with innovative media tools, such as video, radio and photography, to enable them to voice their own lives. VOW Media believes that personalizing women’s individual experiences in the long run can have a long lasting effect on women’s rights worldwide.
Orfeas Youth Organisation is promoting young people’s active citizenship in general and their European citizenship in particular. Our goal is to develop solidarity and promote tolerance and understanding among young people in different countries.
The respect for cultural diversity together with the fight against racism and xenophobia are the priorities of Organization Orfeas. By facilitating joint activities of young people from different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds, Orfeas aims to develop the intercultural learning of young people making Europe a friendlier place in the same time.
Asociación Juvenil Intercambia
Intercambia is a youth organization created by and for young people. Our main activities are based on intercultural learning, by using a non-formal education and youth program actions in order to encourage the youth participation in the international context, so abolishing the barriers between countries, reducing the racism and promoting the tolerance between different cultures.
Our organization wants to encourage youth initiatives by young people – we support them by providing information, tools and training to help them achieve their goals.
Support 4 Youth Development is an Association entirely dedicated to the development of youth. Its mission is to stimulate and sustain young people’s active, civic and responsible participation to the educational, social, cultural and economic environment of the communities they live in.
Support 4 Youth Development concentrates its efforts on activities with clear objectives, such as the development, support and reinforcement of the counseling, informing and forming processes of the target generation, in a European context.
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