Συνεχίζει η υλοποίηση του προγράμματος “Refugees Light”, που υποστηρίζεται από το πρόγραμμα Erasmus+.
Η ΕΛΙΞ είναι εταίρος του προγράμματος που συντονίζεται από την γαλλική οργάνωση Concordia και περιλαμβάνει μια πολύ ενδιαφέρουσα σειρά δραστηριοτήτων με στόχο την προώθηση της κατανόησης και τη συνειδητοποίησης της νεολαίας και των πληθυσμών στο θέμα των ανθρωπίνων δικαιωμάτων και των προσφύγων, με την μοναδική ευκαιρία να συμμετάσχουν οι νέοι σε μια ανταλλαγή νέων στην Παλαιστίνη.
Η Γαλλική οργάνωση Concordia συντονίζει το παρόν πρόγραμμα σε συνεργασία με άλλους 4 εταίρους από την Ελλάδα, Παλαιστίνη, Ιταλία και Βέλγιο.
Ενώ κατά την πρώτη φάση του προγράμματος, το εκπαιδευτικό σεμινάριο “Refugees Light”, έλαβε χώρα στη Γαλλία τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο, η ΕΛΙΞ αναζητά τώρα 4 συμμετέχοντες, ηλικία 18-30, προκειμένου να συμμετέχουν στην ανταλλαγή νέων στην Παλαιστίνη. Tο πρόγραμμα θα πραγματοποιηθεί από τις 2 (ημέρα άφιξης) έως τις 13 Μαρτίου (ημέρα αναχώρησης) 2020 στην πόλη Βηθλεέμ καθώς και στο στρατόπεδο προσφύγων Deisheh.
Αναλυτικά
Dates of the youth exchange: from Monday 2nd of March 2020 (arrival day) to Friday 13th of March 2020 (departure day), 10 days (+2 days of travel)
Organisations: Concordia Normandie-Maine from France and Laylac from Palestine
Location: Palestine (Deisheh Camp - Bethlehem)
Language: English
NOTE: Please read carefully all information contained in this call before applying as a participant for this Youth Exchange.
BACKGROUND OF THE PROJECT
In the last 7 years, our organisation has been collaborating with Palestinian organisations on different projects related to human rights and human rights education. We hosted several groups of youth and youth workers coming from different cities in Palestine, and we would like now to experiment a great project in which we will be able to train youth workers to lead a group in Palestine. We want to come from the experiences lived by refugees in Palestine.
With our colleagues from Palestine, we would like to raise awareness about the refugee topic among people. We believe that there is a need to talk about the political, economic and social situation of refugees in our societies. Raising awareness among youth of our different countries; exchanging on how refugees are perceived by youth and population in general; and how young people want to change it.
We also have the need to train our youth organisations to host a new public in our projects. For instance, Concordia made the choice to host refugees civic service volunteers in our different delegations. However, we first need to make sure that we are ready for that, and we will be able to support youth as best we can.
This project is designed for two different kinds of partner organisations: those, like our Palestinian partners, who are situated inside refugee camps, and those who host refugees in their countries and feel the need to invite people to work on the topic. In France, like in more and more countries in Europe, we are facing nationalism and the development of extreme right political parties, racism and general discrimination towards vulnerable populations.
We will work with one refugee camp in Palestine: Dheisheh in Bethlehem, with the Palestinian Laylac organisation, and we will certainly work with a refugee camp in Jenin. Those refugee camps are home to Palestinian people who had to leave their homeland because of Israeli occupation. They fight for the right of return, which means that they will keep on fighting for their rights until they can go back home.
Every year Guillemette Champ, regional delegate of Concordia Normandie-Maine, is travelling from France to Palestine, in order to meet different organisations in the country, different people and activists, but also to learn how to prepare the young people with whom we are working. Sending youth to a country under occupation is not trivial. So, for this project, and especially for the youth exchange, Concordia is supporting sending organisations a lot, in order to prepare participants before departure. It is also the reason why leaders have been trained during the training course that took place in France in November.
OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
The main goal of this project is to create understanding and awareness among young people and populations in general about human rights and refugees, through gathering young people coming from very diverse backgrounds.
Specific objectives of the youth exchange are:
- Creating an exchange space for young people coming from different backgrounds, cultures, countries and migration experiences.
- Giving young people the possibility to experiment real actions, discover and reflect on them.
- Supporting young people to understand that they actually have acting power in the world in which they live
- Developing materials which can be used by participants back home, within their organizations/communities
PROFILE OF PARTICIPANTS
Young people aged 18 to 30 years old, with or without migration experience, who wish to discover the situation and the background of Palestinian refugee camps. Youth and leaders of the youth exchange should be ready to experience life in a refugee camp in Palestine.
Be sure that you are able to travel abroad and you have valid and up-to-date passport.
Group size: 27 participants (including leaders) from Erasmus+ Programme Countries and Partner Countries
ACTIVITIES
Here is a brief summary of the activities planned during the Youth Exchange that gives you an overview of the program.
Presentation and visit of Deisheh camp and Laylac organization (project partner)
- Discovery of the settlements’ surroundings around Bethlehem in order to understand the process of colonization in Palestine and how the different areas (A, B, C) affect Palestinians’ lives,
- Meetings with Palestinian organizations: BADIL (Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights)
- Organization of workshops on various themes: water and waste management in the camps, electricity, economy, health...
- Visit to Hebron: history, heritage, culture, political situation...
- Visit to other refugee camps (Balata camp in Nablus, Jenin camp)
- Hiking day in the mountains
- Organization of a half-day work: working together on a task of collective utility
- If possible, for the last night, organizing a barbecue in the desert,
ACCOMMODATION AND TRANSPORTATION
Participants will be accommodated in the Laylac Guest House and with families living in Deisheh camp.
2 mini-buses will allow you to travel in groups to the planned places of visit.
PASSPORT INFORMATION:
Be sure that you have valid and up-to-date passport
Υπόλοιπα Οικονομικά Στοιχεία
Το κόστος μετακινήσεων επιστρέφεται στους συμμετέχοντες μετά από την ολοκλήρωση του προγράμματος και αφού έχουν καταθέσει τα απαραίτητα χαρτιά (αποδείξεις, εισιτήρια, boarding pass, κλπ…). Σύμφωνα με τους νέους όρους του προγράμματος Erasmus+ και σύμφωνα με την χιλιομετρική απόσταση το ποσό επιστροφής είναι μέχρι 275€(*) για κάθε συμμετέχοντα.
*(It means that if you have a budget of 275€ and you spend 200€, you will receive all 200€, and in this case it will be the 100% of the travel. Otherwise for example, if you spend 300€ with a budget of 275€, we will reimburse you up to 275€.)
Η διαμονή και διατροφή των συμμετεχόντων καλύπτονται πλήρως από το πρόγραμμα.
Το ποσό συμμετοχής για την την οργάνωση φιλοξενίας είναι € 50
Το ποσό συμμετοχής προς την ΕΛΙΞ είναι € 50.
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