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| ALPHABET OF TOLERANCE II |
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In December 2002 «Hajde da...» Group successfully
finished «Alphabet of Tolerance» program implementation
in 'Stari Grad' Primary School. This program that had got
credentials of Ministry of Education, consists of 12 workshops.
Its aim is to provide basic knowledge and experience of tolerance
for differences to participants. It is aimed to induce cooperation
and mutual respect within class, as well. Workshops were carried
out once a week during three months. All fifth, sixth and
seventh grade pupils were included.
We would like to thank 'Stari Grad' Primary School for help
and cooperation during Program implementation.
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| PEACE EDUCATION FOR SCOUT LEADERS
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In December 2002 «Hajde da...» training team
(Marko, Suza, Darko) delivered a training for Scout Leaders
aimed at gaining peace education knowledge and group work
methodology tools. The training included various topics, e.g.
Teamwork, Non-violent Communication, Violence & Non-violence,
Prejudices, Discrimination, Learning in Groupwork, Methods
and Activities, Group Leader's Role etc.
It was also an opportunity for the Scouts to be introduced
with the content of the Socouts Training Manual designed by
«Hajde da...» group. The final version of the
Manual will be finished soon and its publication may be expected
during 2003.
The whole project was financially supported by Catholic Relief
Services.
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| TRAINING FOR PSYCHO-SOCIAL WORK
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During November and December 2002 third Training for Psycho-Social
Work with Groups of Children and Young People was realized
in Belgrade. The training was organized as an integral part
of “Capacity building program 2002/2003”. Most
of the participants were activists/volunteers from local NGOs
but there were also participants who are professionally dealing
with problems of children and young people through various
forms of education and activities. Topics treated during Training
are relevant for psycho-social work within NGOs.
Implementation of gained knowledge and skills was focused.
How successful and useful Training was can be judged by participants
statements: “..I had wonderful time here, this was the
cape of Good Hope...I was an ‘old barge’, but
I gained new knowledge and now I ‘modern yacht with
superior technology’ “; “… it seem
like everything is somehow right and clear, now. This was
just what I needed.” “I think this will be very
useful in my future professional work.” “…this
was a journey from ‘nothing’ to something very
significant.”
Realization of “Capacity building program 2002/2003”
was financially supported by Finnish Embassy and Canadian
International Development Agency (CIDA)
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| "I VOTE FOR GAME" |
"Hajde da…" Group and Civil Association "Dar"
in cooperation with CARE International Yugoslavia organized
and realized local action "Glasam za IGRU" ("I
Vote for GAME"), 29th September, 2002.
This action was aimed to claim every children's right to
play (disregarding sex, race, nationality, state of health)
and to emphasize significance of games and playing during
childhood.
The event was supposed to take place in Botanic garden "Jevremovac",
but because of bad weather conditions we had to change location;
so, finally it was organized at two spots – Children's
Hospital in Tiršova street and in Roma Community Center
"8. april" in Mali Mokri Lug.
For several hours nearly hundred children were playing, dancing,
drawing, painting, making dolls and creating «theatre«
play...
In that way children of majority population, Romany children
and children with special needs were all equal in playing.
What's most important, the parents were also included –
by showing respect for their children's choice they also voted
for game...
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| “ALPHABET OF TOLERANCE”
II |
After “Alphabet of Tolerance”
project had been succesfully conducted in Desanka Maksimovic
primary school, “Hajde da...” initiated new set
of workshops with same contents in another Belgrade school.
It is “Stari grad” primary school and the program
is being organized simoultaneouslly in all 5th, 6th and 7th
grade classes.
This program, as it is already known, is treating issues such
as discrimination, prejudices, violence, cooperation, acceptance
and constructive ways of dealing with differences... The workshops
will be organized once a week till the end of fall semester... |
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| CONFERENCE ABOUT REFORM OF EDUCATION
IN SERBIA |
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"Hajde da..." Group participated in Conference
about Reform of Education in Serbia, organized by Ministry
of Education and Sports in Belgrade, 5th-7th September. Aim
of this meeting was to promote achieved improvements of school
system in public and to get some feedback information (from
teachers and other professionals from this field) about realization
of those changes. Achieving better communication was also
a priority for schools, Ministry and NGOs.
"Hajde da..." Group promoted "Alphabet of
Tolerance" program at its stand at Program Stock. This
particular program (along with "Alphabet of Feelings")
got credentials of Ministry of Education and it's being succesfully
realized in Belgrade schools. These two programs were very
noticed and we had many contacts with schools willing to educate
teachers through these programs.
The Conference was supported by:
The Canadian International
Development Agency (CIDA),
the Fund for an Open Society - Yugoslavia, KulturKontakt -
Austria,
Stability Pact - Task Force Education and Youth,
the Institute for Open Society Education Programs for Southeast
Europe (OSEP-SEE),
the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
the Swiss Development and Cooperation agency (SDC).
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| GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ANTICORRUPTION
FOR THE YOUTH |
“Hajde da…” Group has been participating in
project of World Bank Institute – Good governance and
anticoruption for the youth for two months. The project is organized
in the premises of British Council in Belgrade. It's a series
of video conferences treating corruption as topic. Beside Yugoslavs,
young people from Africa (Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia),
Russia, Ukraine and USA are also participating. “Hajde
da…” Group is represented by Darko M. Sokovi and
Suna Ibrahimi, participants of our previous seminar –
Youth policy, peace education and participation in Yugoslavia.
Good governance and anticoruption for the youth is two year
project and this video conference is its first phase that
will last till December. Second and third phase will be organized
during 2003. Second phase will be internet training course
and third phase will be organized in form of social action
in local communities of seminar participants, as a final use
of acquired knowledge and skills.
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| TRAINING FOR PSYCHO-SOCIAL WORK
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"Hajde da..." Group organized another (second) Training
for Psycho Social Work with groups of children and young people,
22nd-28th July 2002. It is an educational training, intended
for young people of different professional profiles who are
engaged (or will be engaged) in activities of NGOs working
with groups of children and young people.
This time Training was organized as an intensive course (6
working days) in "Jezero", hotel in lovely environment
of Borsko jezero (Lake of Bor).
Topics treated were related to skill of non violent communication,
techniques of workshop method and basic elements of NGO management.
Next training of this type will be organized during November.
Further information about this training will be set on this
site.
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| Anti Burn-out in Croatia |
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PRONI Croatia invited "Hajde da…" training
team to deliver a 3-day training course aimed at Burn-out
prevention, team building and overcoming existing problems
at work. The training participants were PRONI employees working
in youth clubs in Slavonija and Baranja. The training happened
in Pirovac, Croatia between July 12th and 14th.
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| Conflict Transformation in South
of Serbia |
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Training in nonviolent communication and creative conflict
transformation, organized by the Creative Center "Caribrod",
was held between June 28 th and July 7th 2002 in Zvonacka
Banja, South Serbia.
The training was aimed at NGO activists, representatives of
media, political parties and the local community coming from
Nis, Dimitrovgrad, Pirot and its surroundings. Members of
the training team were: Rozeta Aleksov (KCC), Bosa Janjusevic
(Azin), Vladimir Krstic (Panonski Postpesimisti) and Darko
Markovic (Grupa "Hajde da…"). The project
was financially supported by Council of Europe's "Confidence
Building Measures" Program.
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| PROGRAM OF NON VIOLENT COMUNICATION |
“Hajde da…” group organized and conducted
course in non violent communication during May and June, as
a result of invitation by Federal Ministry of National and Ethnical
Groups.
The course was conducted in the premises of Multicultural Center,
Zmaj Jovina 13, in form of three day intensives (two of them).
It was the chance for participants (students and other young
people) to learn about techniques of deeper self perception,
better understanding of others and constructive ways of dealing
with conflicts.
We would like to thank all the participants for their devotion
and spreading the idea of non violence and peace. The workshops
were conducted by Suzana Krstic i Marko Pejovic. |
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| SCOUTBOY HANDBOOK |
From June to August 2002, "Hajde da..." group will be working
on a project of creating Scout Boy Handbook, in cooperation
with CRS (Catholic Relief Services) and Yugoslav Scout Boy Association.
This handbook is intended for age 15-18 and deals with relevant
topics such as: conflicts, non violent communication, prejudices,
identity, team work, intercultural phenomena… During four day
meeting that took place in Rajac representatives of these three
organizations exchanged information and set concept of work
for following process of creating the Handbook. |
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| "COMPLETELY COMMON DAY" |
June 1, 2002, Youth Council of Serbia
organized and realized youth day named “Completely Common Day”.
The event took place at Trg Republike and it was an opportunity
for various youth organizations to present their programs and
activities. "Hajde da…" group presentation included nice and
merry stand and short speech. T
he basic aims and methods of our work were mentioned along with
the most significant projects we realized so far. |
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| “YOUTH POLITICS, PEACE EDUCATION
AND PARTICIPATION” SEMINAR |
“Hajde da…” group is glad and proud
to inform public that after several months of extreme efforts
group successfully organized and conducted “Youth
Politics, Peace Education and Participation” seminar
in the premises of British Council, May 25-28, 2002. Mark
Taylor and Ph.D. Howard
Williamson were the trainer team.
The participants were: representatives of local NGOs, Ministry
of Education and Sports, representatives of Federal Sports and
Youth Department, professors and school psychologists and secondary
school students. Our initiative was supported from very beginning
by Ministry of Education and Sports experts! We would like to
thank lecturers, participants, those who supported us and ourselves!
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| WE CREATE THE TIME WE LIVE IN |
is the title of conference organized
in Beograd May 17, 2002, attended by 56 representatives of youth
NGOs.
This meeting was crucial step in development of cooperation
between non government and government institutions on the topics
of youth problems in Yugoslavia today.
Presentations of Federal Sports and Youth Department and several
NGOs were arranged and important topics (such as education,
family, unemployment and attitude of the government towards
young people) were discussed with government representatives.
Representatives of some donation organizations were present,
as well.
As usually, stand of “Hajde da…” group was very noticeable and
a lot of people showed interest for activities of the group.
This conference took place in Tolstojeva 2 and was organized
by Federal Sports and Youth Department and Gradanska inicijativa.
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| CREDENTIALS FOR “ALPHABET OF
FEELINGS” AND “ALPHABET OF TOLERANCE” |
Two of our programs got credentials of Ministry
of Education, meaning that they are officially recomended
to primary and secondary schools as adequate additions to regular
teaching.
• “Alphabet of feelings – education
and implemetation” is program aimed to encourage the
teachers in their proffessional roles through increase of their
sensitivity and competence for successful integration of cognitive
and emotional development of children. Program is supposed to
improve consciousness of teachers about their role and to expand
their self respect. Through series of workshops this program
qualifies teachers to develop and demonstrate greater sensitivity
for psychological needs of students and encourages them to include
emotional aspect of children and young people into school practice.
• The basic aim of “Alphabet of tolerance
– education and implementation” program is to increase
sensitivity and competence of teachers for understanding of
certain social phenomena (such as prejudices, stereotypes, discrimination,
social distance, intolerance of differences…) and to enable
development of skills necessary in creating an atmosphere of
acceptance and understanding among school children. |
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| “ALPHABET OF TOLERANCE” |
original peace education program, aimed for elementary school
children, was successfully realized as pilot project in “Desanka
Maksimovic” primary school.
Psychological-educative workshops were attended by approximately
50 fourth grade children, during period February-May 2002. This
project is a result of long and fruitful cooperation of “Hajde
da…” group with NPA in field of help and support to the marginal
groups, in this case Romannies.
The aim of this project was to diminish social distance between
Romany and non Romany children through basic peace education.
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| “CUCKOO EGGS” |
is the name of mutual project of "Hajde da..." group, ‘Center
za pomoc mladim’ association (Ljubljana) and ‘Mirovni Inštitut’
(Ljubljana). It was realized at the beginning of May 2002.
The project is dealing with youth problems and possible ways
of solving them. The method of work applied with these young
people was method of interactive and creative workshops. Twenty
young people from Slovenija and Serbia were gathered in a camp
in Ankaran.
Final presentation of the project and participants’ work was
organized in Ljubljana, May 6, 2002. Another “Cuckoo Eggs” project
is planed for next year. |
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| TOLERANCE IN THE FIELD |
In cooperation with Federal Ministry
of National and Ethnic Groups trainers of “Hajde da..” group
participated in “Tolerance in the Field” project.
During visits to multiethnic communities, organized by Ministry,
“Hajde da…” trainers conducted several workshops titled “Identity,
National Identity and Living Together”. Workshop participants
were representatives of local community (local authorities,
political parties, NGOs, media).
The workshops were organized in Bosilegrad, April 20 and Backi
Petrovac, April 27. |
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TRAINING FOR PSYCHO SOCIAL WORK
WITH
GROUPS OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE |
During February and March 2002 trainer
team of “Hajde da…” group realized first ‘Training for Psycho
Social Work with Groups of Children and Young People’.
Participants of this training were NGO activists, volunteers
and students of social sciences interested in active joining
the search for solutions of problems (endangered) groups of
children and young people are facing.
Regarding the need for this kind of training (great number of
application forms) and statements of participants at the end
of the training (“..acquired knowledge and experience will be
more than useful in their further work”, “…the training itself
contributed a lot to increase of professional motivation”) “Hajde
da…” trainer team will organize and conduct series of ‘Trainings
for Psycho-Social Work’ in following period. |
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