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Community Center Youth Camp is an activity organized
by the Association for Education Improvement, Belgrade, Serbia
in order to make a youth network of Community Center Program
participants in SEE region. Sixty young people and their teachers
came from Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro
and Serbia and spent seven days together in small Spa Banja
Vrujci, 92km from Belgrade.
The aim of the project is to help the development
of political culture of non-violent conflict-resolution, and
of different cultures living together of human rights. During
realizing this project, NGO trainers and instructors from
Serbia, Croatia and Macedonia had to establish cooperation
in order to promote mutual understanding and respect of human
rights among youth. They managed to fulfil this task successfully.
The instructors and trainers were members of the following
NGOs: Association for Education Improvement, Belgrade, Serbia;
Center for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Osijek, Croatia;
and Youth Educational Forum, Skopje, Macedonia.
The main topic of all the activities was intercultural
and multicultural societies. The program dealt with the main
topic; had two parts: educational and spare time activities.
The program was obligatory for all the participants. During
the seven days the young people were involved in the following
workshops: Group Dynamics; Communication; Identity; Problems
in Multicultural Societies; Intercultural Public Debate. The
participants were responsible for spare time activities in
the evenings and they expressed high level of creativity,
knowledge and skills. They presented their countries, towns
and community centers as well as they organized entertainment
such as: basket ball tournament, night swimming, association
game, quiz show, dance evening, karaoke party.
All camp participants have wonderful impression
of the camp. They made true and honest friendships and learned
a lot about other people from the SEE region. All of them
expressed satisfaction to be part of this camp with strong
wishes to be in touch with each other and meet again. They
expressed also their wish that in the future a tradition of
this camp could be useful to establish.
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