Youth4Society

Youth4Society organization in cooperation with 7 partner organizations from Europe implemented a Key Action 2, Capacity Building Project titled: Power of theatre-Act your Human Rights which included a series of events on theatre tools &human rights education.

The project aimed to empower 8 youth association from EU and Western Balkan who work in human rights and inclusion by supporting youth workers with different effective tools on theatre, enhancing the participants awareness on how certain minorities, groups of individuals are socially excluded on the basis of their status.

The main objectives of the project were :

To raise understanding of human rights education and promote inclusion among youth workers/activists using theatre as a powerful tool;
To explore xenophobia, discrimination and intolerance issues
To promote InnoLab techniques, theatre and non formal education approach among practitioners who are working with youngsters with fewer opportunities
To promote Erasmus + (Youth) programme as a tool for active participation of youngsters in community life

This project included a series of events and three main activities:

Activity 1- TC on Human Rights Education & Inclusion using theatre tools

Dates: 3-11 May 2016
Venue: Durres , Albania
32 participants

Activity 2- Youth Exchange: Inclusion & HRE

Dates: 3-11 June 2016
Venue: Pogradec, Albania
Participants: 40 participants

Activity 3- Seminar: Sharing practices and best experiences in

Dates: 3-9 September 2016
Venue: Struga, FYROM
Participants : 28

Guide in Theatre Techniques for Youth Work

The youth exchange “Act for Human Rights Education” was the third activity of the project implemented in Pogradec, Albania from 10-18 March 2016. Partner countries: PEL– FYR of Macedonia, Ligo Lex Legis-Kosovo, Svetlost-Serbia, Praxis-UK, Group Zenith-Turkey, TDM 200

0-Italy, Mladi Voluntari-Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Group: 40 participants and group leaders (25 males and 15 females)
Team: The exchange was facilitated by group leaders and 1 support staff and a trainer in HRE. The main aim of the exchange was to allow the young people come together in a multicultural environment and learn about human rights and multimedia tools that can be used to advocate the HRE. At same time the main focus of the project was that participants that were in the first two activities would lead the groups and have the possibility to firstly practice the skills and knowledge gained in the TCs, and secondly transfers these skills to the other participants.

The youth exchange was run through the non formal education settings, allowing the participants to get the necessary skills and knowledge and to put them in practice. As such, during the event concrete workshops from HRE manuals were implemented, role plays and simulation activities, as well as country realities. All these gave the participants the possibility to learn more about HRE and each other realities they come from.

The second half of the exchange was then fully based on putting skills in practice using learning by doing. Learning from professionals of video making and media approaches, they were able to learn how to edit and produce short videos, always focusing on human rights issues. As an added element to the exchange was the focus in written media, where participants were taught how to write reportage and articles for online media. After working in groups the participants created 4 different works that were later on exhibited in an open exhibition at the hotel where some local youngsters and media channels were invited to participate.

The 4 workshops were: Photo reportage about gender based issues “You know my gender not my story- Gender in-between the stereotypes!” Article and street interviews about the city of Pogradec. Photo reportage about gender equality – Violence is not the choice Photo reportage “the right to choose”, with pictures taken from the creations of recycled materials and pictures using shadows technique. Its to be emphasized that the work done from the groups was exceptional, with lots of collaboration and creativity to apply all the information, knowledge and skills received in the previous two trainings.