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Beyond Our Eyes
Start date: Mar 1, 2014,

The goal of “Beyond Our Eyes” is to increase public awareness among youth about minorities and problems associated with them. Ethnic, religious, gender minorities, people with disabilities and other minority groups often are victims of unequal treatment in the countries and societies they will in. Project will promote among young people community activism, creativity and positive attitude toward diversity.The objectives through which “Beyond Our Eyes” Project will conduct its goal are:- For young people to gain practical skills and knowledge, as well as self-confidence through community activities;- To encourage young people to become more active citizens in advocating rights of minorities and equal treatment for everyone regardless religion, race, ethnic group and etc.; - To improve attitude toward, and understanding of diversities;- To promote continuous cultural cooperation between young people with a view to respecting each other's culture and greater knowledge and better mutual understanding of the different cultures;- To encourage young people to become more active in their home communities by participating in and leading community projects and actions. “Beyond Our Eyes” will be youth exchange and include 6 countries: Georgia, Sweden, Greece, Latvia, Ukraine and turkey. Each country will have 5 participants plus 1 leader. AIRA will have 2 leaders, one of them will be resposible for programme issues, another for logistics. All participant organizations are encouraged to include in their teams representatives of minorities as well. Project will include 3 main components: workshops, art and community activism. Participants will participate in workshops about minorities and active citizenship, create various works of art about the problems of minorities and run different community actions. Youth exchange will last for 9 days and it will be hosted by “Regional Association of Youth Initiatives – AIRA” in Mtskheta, Georgia.
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