comeunamarea
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ComeUnaMarea is a no profit cultural association, established in Palermo in 2005 that carries out these objectives:
- voluntary for the defence of human rights, equal opportunities and protection of disadvantaged people: women, young persons, migrants, Roma, etc…;
- cultural and artistic promotion;
- partnership with educational institutions and families to contrast school drop-out and social exclusion;
- research and promotion for sustainable development, attitude on recycle and reuse, environmental respect.
Its regular activities are focused on supporting and preventing any form of adult and joung unease at risk of social exclusion, through actions of prevention and integration.
Furthermore it is operanting in the neighborhoods where the violence is a daily feature: in many cases, a gender one.
It has deep skills in non-formal education processes to foster employment occasions and self-employment for disadvantaged people and in awareness campaigns to better know violence cases, so called honour crimes, etc…
The association has a long cooperation with schools, especially the ones in quarters at risk, and this gives it the necessary experience to operate in the field of human rights protection, working on the "perception of gender violence" in order to fighting the attitude to underestimate the abuses and the harassments.
It's in the provincial registry of associations of the third sector and non-profit organizations for the promotion of civil and human rights.
ComeUnaMarea is active in European contest because it has taken part in EU programmes as Life Long Learning Gruntvig e Leonardo da Vinci, Youth in Action, Europe for Citizens and Erasmus+