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| Promotion of animated series
“It is so UNFAIR!” |
15. 12.2004.
“Hajde da...” Group has organized promotion of – according
to our knowledge – first animated series for peace education
of Children and Others “It
is so UNFAIR!”.
The event has taken place in “O3ONE”
gallery, 15th December 2004. During promotion the Project
«Alphabet of Tolerance» has been discussed as starting place
and source of this series.
One of our guests, psychologist Jelena Vranješevic stated
some significant data acquired through research on presentation
of children in local media.
The audience saw promotional episode and met the authors.
Children and youth who characterized voices introduced themselves
from their roles.
The finishing touch was given by performance – inspired by
the very series - of ERGstatus
dancing theatre, which had been carried out in gallery
window.
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ANIMATED SERIES “It is so UNFAIR!”
FOR PEACE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND THE OTHERS |
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.... SO, THE ANIMATED SERIES APPEARED....
In the year of 2002, ”Hajde da...” Group has
created a set of workshops for peace education of primary
school children, called “The Alphabet of Tolerance”.
The main aim of this program is acquiring knowledge and experience
of tolerance to difference, as well as supporting the spirit
of cooperation and respect among the classroom mates. Since
the beginning, over 2000 children have been participating
this Program and more than 200 teachers have been educated
to facilitate the workshops. The Program got the credential
of Ministry of Education and Sports of Republic of Serbia.
After hundreds of hours spent with children and their teachers,
we still think that we can do even more to make the school
a more beautiful place, let the children watch an interesting
cartoon at their homes, on the TV, of whose points their parents
wouldn’t have to be worried about, and our colleagues
to have an inspiring tool to work with their pupils in schools...
And, for couple of more reasons...
So, that’s why the animated series “It’s
so unfair!” appeared!
more about it...
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| Theatre of the Oppressed - Training
for Trainers |
November 2004.
“Hajde da...” group's Training Center has organized training
for “Hajde da...” trainers.
The training was focused on the use of Theater of the Oppressed,
an educational theater method, in educational activities. The
training for trainers entitled
“To Name and To Know” was delivered by Mr. Arjen Bos
(Engage! InterAct, The Netherlands, www.engage.nu ).
During these three intensive working days, trainers from “Hajde
da...” group had the opportunity to explore pedagogical principles
of the Theater pf the Oppressed and learn how to facilitate
Image/Forum Theatre in training.
The action was co-funded by IRC and “Hajde da...” Group.
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| TRAINING COURSE IN COMMUNICATION
SKILLS |
october 2004.
... meant for everyone who wants to improve their communication
in both personal and professional life.
AIM
This experience can help us to:
• better understand our
emotions, especially anger and pain and their mutual connections;
• perceive needs that form a base of various feelings (that
can ensure us more fruitful life, personal development...);
• better understand needs of other people, that are the
base of their emotions (which can help us to make our relationships
with those people more creative and with a better rapport);
• use this knowledge to establish that kind of communication
with the others that brings us closer to each other...
In this way, communication becomes space of understanding instead
of conflicts.
Moreover, if it still comes to the conflict, we can decrease
its negative consequences and search for creative solutions.
Knowledge and skills gained on this training course are applicable
both in everyday life and business communication and they are
especially important for professional development of those who
work with people.
WORKING METHOD used on the training course is workshop,
based on principles of experiential learning and active participation.
Training course is facilitated by trainers from “Hajde da…”
Group.
All of the participants who complete the training course successfully
get the certificate issued by “Hajde da…” Group, certifying
that they’ve been participating the Training Course in Communication
Skills.
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| NATIONAL MEETING “WHAT NEXT?” |
| OCTOBER 6th
– 9th, 2004
.... in Vrnjacka Banja was held The National Meeting of the
organizations that already have been active within The YOUTH
Programme and that are interested to enlarge their activities
within that Program, as well as the individuals, institutions
and organizations whose target group are young people.
The organisers of
the Meeting were:
- European Commission – Department for Education and Culture
and
- SALTO YOUTH SEE
supported by NGOs:
- “Hajde da…” Group, Belgrade
- “BalkanIdea”, Novi Sad
- “Youth House”, Nis
- “People’s Parliament”, Leskovac
download :
Report
from the meeting...
(PDF file 392 KB)
Action
Resarch – Where is (missing) youth policy in Serbia? (2004)
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(PDF file 187 KB)
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| Annual report |
Here you can download annual
report Group "Hajde da..." for the period May 2003
- May 2004.
Report is in English, pdf file, 430 KB... |
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| »TOOLS FOR ACTION«
- INTERCULTURAL CAMP |
August 7th
– 13th „Hajde da...“ Group has
organized the „Tools for Action“ Camp, on the
Rajac mountain.
The Camp will be attended by high school students from Vukovar,
Pancevo, Subotica and Nova Varoš. The main idea
of the Camp is for participants to acquire skills
which are necessary for managing their local actions and giving
them the opportunity for intercultural learning, having in
mind that the Camp will gather together young people from
various parts of Serbia and Croatia.
All of the participants will have the chance to present the
culture and customs of the region they come from and, at the
same time, to get to know those from the other communities.
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| evs volonteer from slovenia is
here... |
July 2004.
after a long and fruitful cooperation with our colleagues and
friends from Slovenia, we developed a joint project of exchanging
volunteers (Action 2), so we are going to host for 6 months
our volunteer Mateja Pavetic, from Center za Pomoc Mladima,
Slovenia.
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| Youth project “Because
it counts!” |
Group is another contribution to process of youth
policy development in Serbia. Our intention was to gather
useful inputs and we decided to do it by means of action research,
this time. It was conducted during workshops of Personal empowerment
program with 3 groups of young people.
What issues worry/inspire young people in Serbia today? What
expectations youth has from policy makers on local and national
level? What ideas young people can offer?
First phase of this one-year project was three-month educational
program of personal empowerment. It was realized with three
groups of young people from 3 Serbian towns.
Since multicultural social setting is our reality and for the
reason of cultural rights and intercultural processes being
synchronized by youth policy, we deliberately pick three towns
with distinctive multiethnic features – Subotica,
Pancevo and Nova Varoš.
Program of personal empowerment
is based on contemporary methodological principles of good non-formal
education for youth. It includes voluntary participation, use
of participatory methods, fostering of cooperation within group,
learning from personal experience and learner-centeredness.
Non-formal education mustn’t be regarded as an opposition
to official school system, but as quality supplement of formal
education, the one that achieves long lasting results with fewer
resources because it is flexible, practical and always in touch
with ‘real life’.
We also, from the beginning of March 2003, start a media
campaign in order to raise sensitivity of majority population
for youth problems and to help active participation of citizens
in search for solutions that should improve life of young people
in Serbia.
Furthermore this campaign will be aimed to support National
Youth Policy and Strategy development in Serbia and also
the process of building of institutions that will adequately
represent young people. Campaign will be presented on local
levels of three municipalities as well as on the national level.
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| Two T-kits available in Serbian
till December 2004 |
In order to contribute to quality improvement of non-formal
education and promote intercultural learning as a pedagogical
tool within youth NGOs from Serbia and Montenegro and neighboring
countries (e.g. Croatia , Bosnia and Herzegovina ), “Hajde da...”
group will translate two training manuals.
The two T-kits produced by the Partnership of Council of Europe
and European Commission will be available in Serbian as both
electronic and hard copies till December 2004. The project of
translation of T-kits in Serbian is supported by European Youth
Foundation.
More information about these publications you may find at the
Partnership's website: http://www.training-youth.net/site/publications/tkits/tkits.htm
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| TRAINING FOR PSYCHO-SOCIAL WORK
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march- april 2004.
"Hajde da..." Group organized another Training for
Psycho Social Work with groups of children and young people,
march- april 2004.
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.
Topics treated were related to skill of non violent communication,
techniques of workshop method and basic elements of NGO management.
This program was financially supported by
Ambasy of Finland.
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| Review and implementation of
“Alphabet of Feelings” is about to start |
29. february 2004
During March “Hajde da…” Group will commence realization of
workshops from “Alphabet of Feelings” program with 4th and 5th
grade school children, in “Đorde Krstic” Primary School (Zarkovo,
Belgrade).
The workshops will be taking place from middle of March till
the end of May. Along with realization of workshops testing
and revision of program will be going on.
This program is aimed to support children-participants’ emotional
development and to improve their interpersonal relations.
Basic idea of implementation and revision process is to create
a modified and improved program for teachers’ advanced training,
which should be put into practice from September 2004.
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| ALPHABET OF TOLERANCE- EDUCATION
AND IMPLEMENTATION |
22. february
2004
As an integral part of “Alphabet of Tolerance” program, the
trainings for teachers have been held during January and February.
The trainings have been held in six
towns: Subotica, Kikinda, Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Niš and
Dimitrovgrad.
The training included 107
teachers, school psychologists and pedagogues. It was
consisted of three modules. First and third module lasted two
and a half days each, while second module lasted two days.
Topics presented within “Alphabet of Tolerance” booklet has
been treated throughout the training. Participants had opportunity
to learn a lot about basics of workshop method and, what is
most important, they were given chance to practice that new
knowledge.
Evaluation of the training given by participants is exceptionally
positive. In the second phase of the project they were supposed
to conduct workshops with 5th and 6th grade children.
According to their own words, they entered this phase of the
project ready and highly motivated. Besides trainers of our
Group, in realization of this training participated also trainers
of great (national) trainers team, created by “Hajde da…” Group
at the end of 2003.
This program was financially supported by
SDC- Swiss Development Cooperation.
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| THE YOUTH PROGRAM “Because it
counts!” STARTED |
february, 2004.
“Hajde da…” Group started realization of the project
entitled “Because it counts!”
This program is intended to empowerment youth for positive acting
in their lives and social context. It is also aimed to perform
research concerning challenges Serbian youth is facing today,
in order to suggest a number of pedagogical recommendations
for work with youth and with the intention of giving support
to the development of National youth policy and strategy.
The first project phase will include 60 high school students
from Subotica, Pancevo and Nova Varoš.
These young people will attend series of workshops for personal
empowerment and will participate in media campaign for promotion
of youth participation and activism.
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