Description
The conventional eduction does not support the brainstorming on the sensitive issues. The youth lack the contact with the minority. They get the information from one official source only and do not challenge their attitudes. The idea of The living books is to speak up the real experience by the real person from a real point of view. The living book brings an extraordinary story – Roma „reads“ his/her life story and answers the questions of the audience / readers afterwards. They question his/her experience and feelings to get to the depth of the story and intensively live the experience with the Living Book. It breaks the stereotypes and prejudice, it helps to build up a new and own view and makes the readers to reconsider their attitudes, which are the aims of this project. Activities: organizing the living libraries, training of the Living Books, publicity, short video of the Living Book Objectives: Roma youth will gain new skills and experience, creating Roma volunteering network.
Summary of project results
The project enabled us to organise seven trainings of human books and seven Human Libraries.More than 200 young people were able to read the Human books.More than 30 Human books and 10 librarians were trained.The wellknown director made a pro bono to pormote the Human Library project.Over 200 people had an opportunity to reasses thier own attidudes and became a part of the tolerant society.Few of them have been involved in other Amnesty Internation activities as well.The susstainability of the project is strenghtened by complementing the Human libraries with the ther human rights education activities which are being organised by Amnesty International.The Human books and the librarians are trained in the way, that tehy have the skills and knowledge to organise the Human books independetly without Amnesty International support,The teachers have the confidence to react properly on any demonstration of hate, extremism and rasism at the schools.
Summary of bilateral results