Projects

Youth Exchange – Peer to Peer Education for Healthy Life Style

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“Peer to Peer Education for Healthy Life Style” was an YE implemented by Youth4Society organization in Pogradec Albania from 31st March to 8th of April 2014. The project gathered 36 young people coming from Italy, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Turkey and Albania who worked during 8 days on issues related to health, health education and peer to peer education concepts. The project aimed at empowering youth leaders and youth workers with methods of peer to peer education in order to promote healthy life style in local communities. In the same time, the activity also influenced into the intercultural learning process of the participants, breaking down stereotypes and prejudices and getting to know better the other cultures.

Objectives:

• To explore the concept of healthy lifestyle and abstinence against alcohol, smoking and malnutrition

• To empower young people with basic skills in organizing a health promotion campaign

• To promote non-formal education and YiA programme as a support tool for health education

• To foster youth leaders to become peer educators for a healthy lifestyle

• To explore cultural support towards health through inter-cultural learning process

The main methodology used during the activity was non-formal education approach. Participants received theoretical input and in the same time developed their skills and competences through: group discussions, role plays, simulation exercises, learning in the nature activities, etc. During the last day of the activity, participants prepared a health education campaign in the city center of Pogradec promoting healthy life style also on behalf on the World Health day. Divided in 6 groups: Sexual education, healthy eating, mental health, dancing, sports, smoking and drug abuse, participants invited also local people of Pogradec to be part of the activity and live a healthy life.

Link: Photogallery Peer to Peer Education for Healthy Life Style

Projects

Action 3.1 Training Course Human Rights Education with Children

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Action 3.1 Training Course for Human Rights Education with Children took place in Durres, Albania from 10-17 March 2011 and was implemented from Youth 4 Society organisation. The training gathered 23 participants from Programme Countries and South – East Europe and topic was dedicated to human rights education for children and promotion of Compassito- manual of human rights education for children. Aim of training was that participants improve their competencies related to human rights education with children and increase their personal and social development through different activities. In the training trainers team worked in three dimensions: giving knowledge, changing attitudes in positive way and improving skills of youth workers in human rights education for children.

Objectives of the project were:

  1. to develop competencies of 24 youth workers/ leaders in key concepts of human rights education with children
  2. to promote Compasito (manual of human rights education for children) and to familiarize the participants with its approaches and activities in order to use it and adapt in local realities
  3. to review and address essential knowledge, skills and attitudes for youth workers working in human rights education for children and to offer to then practical tools how to work with children on human rights education
  4. to promote non formal education among youth leader who are working with children
  5. to develop future partnership among youth leaders in activity in order to set up  a pan European network of youth workers working in human rights education with children
  6. To promote Youth in Action programme as a tool for promoting children rights and peer to peer education

The methodology was based in non formal education approach, lot of communication based methods, activity based methods, socially focused methods and self directing methods were used.

Link: Photogallery Training Course Human Rights Education with Children