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Summer Camp Adventure

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 This year's summer camp was very successful. We had quite a high number of children and thanks to an Erasmus+ project "Summer Camp Adventure", we could also welcome foreign leaders - this year from Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Turkey. During the 14 days, the children were travelling around the world, visiting various countries, getting to know new cultures and also a little bit of political systems. The children will for sure never forget the visit to North Corea. Besides that, we also took part in a Brazilian carnival, fought with the Russian mafia and learned to create origami in China. In the second week, we also visited the town of Český Krumlov - we visited the gardens next to the chateaux and had lunch right at the castle. Because a professional filmmaker joined us this year, we are happy to have also our first summer camp video.

You can check out photos from the camp here and the video here.

You can see photos from the gallery HERE.

Lukáš (Dum)

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Campsite

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

Our campsite is located in South Bohemia on a bank of the river Lužnice. You can see the location here.

There are 3 cottages that serve for accommodation for the participants of our projects and one cottages, which provides us with a big kitchen. Summer camp children are usually accommodated in tents with wooden basis - Erasmus+ participants can choose this option as well, if they want to have a great outdoor experience. At the campsite, there are 3 bathrooms with showers, divided for men and women.

As the river is right next to the campsite, there is the possibility to go swimming or canoeing - we have three plastic canoes and a kayak. At the campsite, there is also a big vigwam, in which we spend the evenings and rainy days. For sunny days, we like to enjoy the trampoline and ping-pong table.

You can see pictures of the campsite and the cottages HERE.

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The Long Way to Europe

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

The second weekend in May, representatives of our organization took part in an international training under the Erasmus+ project "The Long Way to Europe". This time the meeting took place in Krakow, because this place is in many ways connected to antisemitism and holocaust. 28 participants from eight countries got the opportunity to visit Schindler's factory (famous thanks to the Spielberg's movie Schindler's List) and also the most famous concentration camp Auschwitz. The training ended by organizing a street debate in the streets of Krakow, which motivated the participants to be more active in the society when they come home.

You can see photos from the gallery HERE.

Lukáš (Dum)

 

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Street debate

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

On the 12th of May, we organized our first "street debate" as a part of an Erasmus+ project "The Long Way to Europe", which motivates young people to be more interested in what is happening in their countries and to take an active part in the society. The topic of this first debate was "difference" and our aim was to create a debate about this topic amongst random people on the street who would normally never start talking to each other. We - me (Mája), Eva Pešková, Míra Krampera and Petr Čáp - met in the morning on the square in Sedlčany, brought a big board and on it, we hung the question "Have you ever felt "different"? When?" Then we asked random people on the square and wrote their answers on the board - this way we created a kind of a collage of various experiences with "being different", which the passers-by could read and think about. The whole time there was a nice and friendly atmosphere, we enjoyed the time together and gained experiences, which we are going to use in the next debates we organize.

You can see photos from the gallery HERE

Mája

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Training course "Games for Change"

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 In the first week of February we organized a training course for youth workers named "Games for Change" in Říčany, Czech Republic. The participants had a great opportunity to learn to use games as a method in non-formal education and also as a tool for spreading tolerance and inclusion. People from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Latvia, Estonia, Spain and Turkey took part in the project. After the theoretical part of the project and a half-day excursion to Prague, which everybody enjoyed quite a lot, the participants got the chance to put into practice what they learned and create their own educational game. And the results were very interesting - besides using the knowledge and skills they gained during the project, they also used a lot of their own creativity and originality. The project brought together a group of great people enthusiastic about games and so we spent most of the free time playing board as well as non-board games and we had a lot of fun and gained new contacts as well as good friends.

Photos from the project are in the gallery.

Mája

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Erasmus Plus for young eco-entrepreneurs

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 In November 2017 we hosted our last project of the year. It was a youth exchange named "Eco Possibilities for Entrepreneurship", which was attended by young people from Spain, Slovakia, Turkey and the Czech Republic. By using the method of various games, discussions and "learning by doing" they learned about ecology and entrepreneurship and tried to find ways to combine these two areas and create their own business, which would be not only successful, but also eco-friendly. There was enough time left also for teambuilding activities, a trip to Prague and to a bio-bakery Zemanka and intercultural evenings, which everybody liked a lot. At the end of the project, we went to the local high school, where we talked to the students not only about eco-entrepreneurship, but also about Erasmus+ and the opportunities it gives to young people. The project had a very nice and friendly atmosphere, we had a lot of fun and made many new friends.

You can check out pictures from the project in the gallery.

If you are interested in more details about the project, have a look at the bulletin:

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Erasmus+ project "Digital Youth"

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 In October 2017, we organized our first international project outside of the Czech Republic. Between 11th and 19th October we met in a Turkish town of Patara with more than 30 people from Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Turkey and Latvia, who work with young people and want to broaden their horizons in this area. This time the topic of the training was using audiovisual technologies as a tool for making young people more interested in other cultures and make them more tolerant towards people who are different. During the first days the participants discussed about intercultural learning and youth work and at the same time learned to use a camera and shoot and edit videos. At the end they split into groups and created five original short movies that somehow address the topic of intercultural diversity. And because everybody worked hard and with a lot of enthusiasm, we also had the time to explore Turkish nature and culture - we visited a traditional bazar, a ruin of ancient parliament and on the last day we went canoeing. We are now enriched by new experiences, but also new friendships and common plans for the future.

You can see the movies frome the project here.

For photos, check out the gallery.

Mája

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Erasmus+ project "Feeling Outdoor"

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 In August 2017 we organized our third training course for youth workers, this time the topic was "outdoor activities". 26 participants from the Czech Republic, Italy, Latvia, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Macedonia, Spain and Portugal discovered during the 8 days of the project their relationship with nature and the main theories about learning in/from nature. We tried for example acrobatic yoga, walking on ropes and night games in the forest. The second half of the project was more practical - the participants tried to organize their own outdoor activities for children. The most interesting part of the project was undoubtedly the night hike, during which the participants slept in the nature, walked at least 20 kilometres and also fulfilled challenges that they chose - walk one hour without shoes or blindfolded, swim in a lake, talk to the local people and so on. During this project we continued designig ideas for our future activities and so we can be looking forward to meeting some of our new friends soon.

You can see photos from the project here.

Mája

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Summer camp

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 This year, our summer camp was a bit of an experiment, since we had made two significant changes in the way of organization. The first one was joining the two terms (for younger and older kids) into one. The second change was taking the international side of our camp to the next level by connecting it with a youth exchange under Erasmus+ programme, which was called "Summer camp adventure". This way, we could use the help and enthusiasm of 18 young leaders from the Czech republic, Slovakia and Spain. They were accommodated in the two cabins on the other side of the river and their main programme was exploring what being a youth worker/camp leader is about, what it is like to organize games and activities for children, but also taking care of themselves, cooking their own dinner, etc. It was a great opportunity for them to experience life in the middle of the Czech countryside, learn to canoe (God knows it wasn't easy), etc. During the camp we also organized a trip to Tábor, where the kids as well as the foreign leaders could explore the historical sights and Czech culture and then challenge themselves a little bit by walking back to the campsite. As a reward, they organized for the children Spanish and Slovakian evenings, in which they introduced to them their food, music, languages... On one rainy day we also had a movie marathon of animated movies. For next year, we have this project already approved, this time we will host also young people from Finland and Italy. 

You can find all the pictures from the project here.

And some of them also in the gallery.

Mája

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Get Your Own Picture

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 From 14th to 27th May 2017 we hosted an Erasmus+ project in Prague, that was called Get Your Own Picture. We had planned it together with our partners from Turkey and Germany, who already have a lot of experience with similar projects. 50 young people from Czech Republic, Slovakia, Turkey, Germany, Latvia, Greece and Spain took part in the project. After three days of ice-breaking games and theoretical workshops, they started fulfilling the task for which they came - to shoot their own short movie. They were divided into groups and they could try to be in different positions - somebody got the role of director, then there were producers, cameramans and so on. The participants had the opportunity to explore Prague and to shoot their movies there. After ten days of work we celebrated our success by looking at our movies projected in a cinema at FAMU. With the same partners we are already planing more project for the future and we are looking forward to more similar experiences.

Here you can find pictures and video from the project.

Here are the movies that we created.

Mája

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Erasmus+ in Turkey

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 Training course named "Multipliers of Non Formal & Intercultural Communication" that took place from 15th to 23rd April in the Turkish city of Antalya was attended by four Czech participants from our organization. During a week full of non-formal learning we learned how to work with prejudices and intercultural stereotypes, we got to know how to approach topics such as discrimination, social exclusion, our identity and values. We tried to understand various types of learning and in the end we tried what it takes to lead our own workshop. Besides learning, during the breaks we got to know food from the participating countries. Each national team prepared their own coffee break with snacks and a short introduction of their country. We also had the time to explore the beautiful city of Antalya and the surrounding. We visited the town of Termessos, which was not conquired even by Alexander the Great. We left the project with many new experiences and also many new friendships which we hope will last as long as possible.

Here you can find pictures from the project.

Lucie Firlová, participant of the project

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Erasmus+ in Estonia

from 05.11 to 05. 11. 2021

 During the week between 5th and 13th March an Erasmus+ project "Gender - Awareness to be Aware" took place in Pärnu, Estonia. On behalf of our organization there were two participants - me and my classmate Jenda. As the title of the project hints, we were dealing mainly with "gender issues" - gender identity and equality, discrimination and oppression. The first few days were a bit rocky, because all of us came with different oppinions and had a lot of emotions that needed to come out. For the first time we got to know the fact, that some people don't agree with a binary perception of society and that some of them choose to have no gender and some of them on the other side feel like being both. We heard many different oppinions and it was a real intellectual challenge to find those we could relate with. After a few passionate discussions, our group came to a calmer state, we learned to tolerate our differences and we became not only a functional team, but also good friends. And maybe because our way to mutual friendship was a bit tough and full of emotions, the harder it was to say "goodbye". The evening programme also contributed to general well-being - pantomimical movie quiz, visiting spa and unforgettable dancing in the dark. On Wednesday we enjoyed a relaxing day, we went sightseeing in the town and had a walk on icebound Baltic see. We had an intense week full of new experiences and self-reflection that we won't forget.

You can see more pictures in the gallery.

Mája

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