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- Xenophobia
- Exchange in Norway
- E-bulletin of good practices
- Information event „Xenophobia versus multiculturalism after Charlie Hebdo“
- Closing information event
- Vision of the program
- Seminar for journalists
- Pedagogical staff trainings
- Campaign for the community and city fest of cultures
- Seminaries for youngsters and preparation for young leaders
- Exhibitions “We want peace”
- Creation of a movie for the project
- Icelandic Model
- Correlation study on the drug addiction among children and youth and juvenile criminology
- Work meetings for introduction with the Icelandic model for prevention and exchange of practices
- Adaptation of the Icelandic model
- Conducting a joint conference on topic: „The Icelandic model in Bulgaria: Prevention of the crime-inducing behavior among children and youth with severe psychoactive addiction”
- Joint seminar training
- Workshop for parents on topic “Prevention of the psychoactive addiction”
- Visualization and publicity
- Project management
- Information and promotional activities for strengthening the bilateral relations
- Children’s grief project
- Enhancing the organizational and financial sustainability of SPOC
- Survey on topic: “How do we understand the grief, how to consult?”
- Increasing the capacity of SPOC by creating a support system for children, experiencing grief.
- Conduct of training seminars for the developed system
- Round table for discussing and popularizing the psychosocial system
- Project management
- “We understand and support you”
- Youth in Europe report (Substance use and social factors)
- “Three approaches to equal opportunities for people with mental illnesses”EU, ESF, Operational Programme “Human resources development”
- Aims of the project
- Innovations
- Partners
- Activities
- Research of employment methods for people with mental illnesses
- Creation of an employment model for people with mental illnesses
- Approbation and implantation of the innovative employment model for people with mental illnesses
- Research of a support model for children at risk with mentally ill parents
- Approbation and development of a system for consulting a child of a mentally ill person
- Launch and application of the innovative system for children with mentally ill parent
- Research of methods against depression and suicides amongst employed people
- Adaptation and developing an innovative system against depression and suicide among employers and employees.
- Implementing a system against depression and suicide among employed people.
- Evaluation of the results
- Distribution of the established innovations and the results
Xenophobia
Project „Exchange of practices and creation of a model to limit hate speech by creating a culture of tolerance and recognizing diversity“
The Project „Exchange of practices and creation of a model to limit hate speech by creating a culture of tolerance and recognizing diversity” is financed within he NGO Programme in Bulgaria under the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area 2009-2014.
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The project is prompted by a declared necessity from the refugees target group and minority acceptance and tolerance side. It is extremely actual due to the refugee wave, the presence of numerous ethnic and religious minorities, stimulating the root and development of a xenophobic adjustments and movements contrary to the democratic values and practices that harshly violate citizens’ rights and dignity. Media stimulates hate speech, gives a tribune to the ethnic intolerance. Children and youths are introduced to philosophy, establishing a culture of aggression and violence.
This is the first initiative, that expect everyone, who is responsible for the spread of hate speech and who exercise influence on children’s and youth’s adjustments, to work together in order to achieve integration, rights, to make an impact on hate speech and anti-discrimination, which determine its innovative nature. The innovation of the project is comprised of anticipatory program in the schools, training of journalists and primary- targeting youth participation in different activities, including the youths manifesting xenophobia, aiming at creation of a model for overcoming xenophobia, intolerance, disrespect of the rights of „the different one“ and the discriminative stereotypes. The approach for solving the problem is an innovative one, in which the influenced groups take part in the development of measures and resolutions that is one of the ways to empower the discriminated ones. In the context of the drive for good European neighborhood relations, agreement and respect among the different cultures, the initiative suggests a transferrable and applicable by the partners (other NGOs from the country and from Europe) approach.
Project’s objectives:
The project aims to help the promotion of democratic values and human rights protection, to limit hate speech and xenophobic adjustments, benefiting from the participation of all, who is in charge of solving the problem and its early prevention as well as the formulated children’s messages to the community. A change in the xenophobic adjustments through a conducted campaign will be achieved; limitation of xenophobia and the discrimination forms- through preventive program and ateliers; accomplishment of tolerance, prevention of racism displays, respect of diversity- through a conduct of seminars for youths and inclusion of children from the minorities, refugees and migrants; limitation of hate speech- through a work with the media.
Beneficiaries:
The main beneficiaries of the project are children and refugees.
Additional target groups on the project are: minorities, representatives of media, youth, pedagogic and administrative staff, working at schools with children refugees and a broad representation of ethnicities.
Partners on the project:
“Peacepainting” is an independent association, situated in Bindal, Norway. It organizes painting workshops for children that allow them to express themselves without using words, in the context of peace and a friendly environment between people and nations.
Association for development of Arab-Bulgarian initiatives and cooperation (ARABIS). The Association promotes and supports intercultural dialogue and cooperation between representatives of various Eastern and Western cultures, religions and nations in the spirit of mutual understanding and respect towards the others. It contributes to the enhancement of mutual awareness and expands bilateral contacts between Bulgarian and Arabic, as well as between Western and Eastern societies as a whole and in the spirit of intercultural understanding.