Description
The project addresses the challenges facing the vulnerable groups in Trun Municipality (unemployment, low education, poverty). The project aims at enabling the vulnerable groups to voice and solve their problems by learning about civil rights, being trained in crafts. First, the applicant will meet the stakeholders (the municipality, the schools and the groups) to discuss their participation in the project. Second, 45 young people will learn about civil rights, right to access to education, employment, housing, healthcare, social assistance. 10 of them will be selected as members of an initiative group for civil rights. Third, the participants will take part in 3 simulations of labour office registration, writing a job application and a CV, an interview. Fourth, 5 debates will be held on gender equality, anti-discrimination, tolerance. Finally, 10 people will be trained in the ceramic art. The project will benefit young people, vulnerable groups and the local community in general.
Summary of project results
The main goal of the project was to achieve social empowerment of vulnerable groups and the specific objective was to help develop skills by the vulnerable groups, including the Roma, to voice in public their problems and undertake the needed actions to solve them. The pottery course developed the participants’ skills to work in a group, learn to listen and perform the tasks assigned by the trainers and respect the rights and personal space of the other participants. The main beneficiaries belong to the following groups: Roma, young people, the media, local communities, NGOs, public administration staff and people with disabilities. The above representatives were actively involved in the project activities and took part in the follow-up evaluation and analysis of the achieved results. 10 people successfully completed the 2-month pottery-making course and 15 pottery artefacts, created by the trainees were exhibited at the museum in the village of Busintsi and complemented the local exhibition. The additional project activities expanded the target group of students from the local secondary school and later on other children joined them, following in the steps of the craftsmen from the Busintsi School. Participation in the practical simulation workshops enabled them to acquire skills for active job searching, preparation and starting up their own business. Learning pottery-making from trainers who were participants in the main project ensured the sustainability of the project and continuity between generations. The young trainees are prepared to continue with “peers training peers”. Apart from learning to work with clay, the potter’s wheel and labor discipline, the children also managed to describe the technological method of work at Busintsi School of Ceramics. It was one of the deficiencies established during the preliminary research, the fact that there are no materials about the technological method and that the loss of the last craftsman made is ever more difficult to revive some of the oldest techniques used in pottery-making.
Summary of bilateral results