Way to the Rainbow

Project facts

Project promoter:
The Tree and The Owl Society
Project Number:
HR02-0001
Target groups
Children ,
Young adults
Status:
Completed
Initial project cost:
€5,432
Final project cost:
€5,432
From EEA Grants:
€ 3,973
The project is carried out in:
Istarska županija

Description

Action Road to Rainbow is needed to restore and maintain the access road to the sustainable educational center building location. The objectives of the project are: active citizenship driven through voluntary actions and solidarity, reinforce sustainable development in the local community, promote non-violence, democracy and human rights. This project will include preparing and printing information leaflets and reports to the media to inform the local populations about the campaign and encourage them to voluntary actions and solidarity. Also, action is focused to strengthen the sustainable development and provide more effective and visible knowledge of it. Children attending local schools are expected to benefit through the workshops on democratic principles and human rights. To promote local communities is also an expected outcome. The action will result with local residents informed about volunteer actions, information leaflets designed, printed and distributed, report to the media realized, about 30 volunteers included, access road renewed, two workshops about nonviolent communication held and conducted design and process evaluation.

Summary of project results

The action "Trail to the Rainbow" has informed the public about the objectives and activities of the programme (informative pamphlets have been designed, printed and distributed; media releases have also been published). In the five volunteer meetings, 30 to 40 young people have been gathered and they have performed 350 hours of volunteer work during which the access road that leads to the self-sustainable centre Paradih has been renovated. The local population has been encouraged to organize and implement programmes for the revitalisation of abandoned land and to organize gatherings in nature, recreational activities, field classes and social meetings. By opening the self-sustainable education centre in nature, local communities were ecouraged and educated about the sustainable development and the unique approach in implementing the education and upbringing process. Three workshops were performed for about 30 children between the second and fourth grade of elementary school from Motovun with the topic of sustainable development and healthy human relations. The preconditions for the admission and organization of activities for children and youth have been fulfilled. The evaluation of the project and the process has been made and showed that the action has achieved its goals.

Summary of bilateral results