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BUILDING BRIDGES FORGING WELLFARE
Start date: May 2, 2016, End date: Mar 1, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

"Building bridges, forging welfare" seeks to promote peace, multiculturalism and tolerance through the joint effort of young muslims and the neighborhood in many European cities to improve social projects to improve their environment (neighborhood, district or city) through social projects and cultural mediators.Due the rise of Islamophobia and xenophobic behaviors, the project will meet many young muslims associations of Europe, local organizations and the neighbors to share experiences and good practices and to create social projects that will make better their neighborhoods. Also the participants will develop their skills to become cultural mediators and to implement these projects for the integration of young migrants and refugees.That is the reason why six entities such as the Association of Muslim Youth in Valencia (Spain), Norges Unge Muslime (Norway), Giovani Musulmani d'Italia (Italy) and musilm Association of Ireland (Ireland), Muslim Association of Britain (UK) and Organization of Muslim in Hungary (Hungary) have designed a youth exchange, consistent with the priorities of the Erasmus + program for 2016:-reaching out to young people with fewer opportunities including refugees, asylum seekers and migrants;-promoting diversity, intercultural and inter-religious dialogue, common values of freedom, tolerance and respect of human rights as well as on projects enhancing media literacy, critical thinking and sense of initiative of young people;In this youth exchange will participate 60 young people and 6 young leaders from six organizations of young Muslims of Europe with local associations and neighbour representatives of Orriols and collaborative entities, for 10 days in the city of Valencia in order to carry out:- A exchange of good practices where Muslim youths will acquire skills as intercultural and social mediators.- Projects to improve marginal neighborhoods and to integrate refugees and segregated groups through joint efforts.- Campaigns, measures and actions to combat xenophobia, racism, to promote the multiculturalism and to achieve a full integration of young migrants and refugees.All of this through formal and informal methodologies consisting of working groups, participatory development, street activities... everything with the help of prestigeous experts, expert institutions on the cultural mediation (University of Valencia, City Hall Valencia Orriols Convive, Movement against Intolerance, SOS Racisme, CeiMigra ...) and the neighbors of Orriols (who will help to generate proposals for social projects for this area particularly affected by the crisis).In these meeting, we will develop the skills and competences that will help us to build those bridges and generate social projects, to achieve the objectives set and get a great impact in youth and in our communities. A project sustainable in time, that it becomes larger, stronger and more able to build a multicultural society without hatred.We want to build bridges between cultures but also contribute to the social improvement for all residents in Europe, no matter our religion, our origin or ethnicity or religion. Becoming the key t build an European Union better and fairer.
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