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Description
Domeikava eldership consists of 14 villages among which is the largest village in Lithuania . It has a population of about 10,000 people and is constantly growing due to intensive construction works around. Young people make up the greater part of the new population. It is difficult to reach and involve the youth age group, it is difficult to get involved in civic activities.
Through this project, we will create fun activities for young people, such as: interview lectures and interviews with live witnesses on January 13; organize a patriotic march through the historical sites of Domeikava eldership; invite you to contribute to the hiking route; we will create a booklet of historical objects of Domeikava eldership; organize guides training through the community of local people, especially youth; develop youth volunteer groups for activities; organize a live concert youth festival concert-festival performing a patriotic songs; we will invite young people to create an initiative group whose task will be to present the historical objects of Domeikava eldership in interesting and attractive forms, in order to actively engage themselves in civic activities and to involve the whole community actively in them.
Through this project, we hope that citizens, especially young people, will become more involved in civic activities and initiatives. The project focuses on cooperation with all local NGOs, Domeikava eldership education and budget institutions, thus the project activities and initiatives will reach geographically distant residents of Domeikava eldership.
We hope that 15% more and more active residents of Domeikava eldership will get involved in civic campaigns, initiatives and events.
Summary of project results
The project "Active and Civic Deaf People" was designed to encourage the local community to become more involved in civic activities, actions, events and initiatives. Therefore, all project activities were focused on this.
Active young people of Domeikava were able to critically evaluate and present the history of their region, able to disseminate their own history through the chosen means, able to create new civic initiatives through the challenges:
1. Initiating meetings in the local community and finding target youth groups for project activities;
2. Providing the project target groups with basic knowledge in the areas of guiding, interviewing, layout, local knowledge, event organisation.
3. Implementing all project activities and having local young people active in civic actions and initiatives.
1. An interactive map-route of points of interest with QR codes has been created, using the ARC GIS (ESRI) system to benefit 1000 inhabitants (an interactive map-route of points of interest with QR codes has been created, with a column with a QR code next to each point of interest, we did not use the ARC GIS (ESRI) system, but we counted the number of views through a youtube channel;
2. A stand with a map-route to the attractions of Domeikava was created and installed, which will be available to all interested citizens;
3. 4 guides prepared and trained;
4. Organised a guided civic hike;
5. Organised a civic song contest - festival;
6. 10 volunteers were involved in the project activities (the target group acquired theoretical knowledge and practical skills: searching for, collecting and using the information necessary for the map layout, and was involved in and familiarised with the organisation of events, initiatives, searching for ways to disseminate information, developing a communication plan);
7. Organising a civic action (singing of the National Anthem on the occasion of the 6th of July and a flag-carrying column);
8. 10 units (The target group of participants acquired practical and theoretical knowledge to be able to gather information from living stories on the topic of January 13th and to submit their interviews in writing);
9. 15% of the population will participate more actively in civic activities;
10. We cooperated with local educational institutions (Domeikava Gymnasium, kindergartens), libraries (2 branches), leisure halls (2 branches), Domeikava Elderly Municipality, Domeikava Lithuanian Martyrs Parish, Lapiai Elderly Municipality, Voškoniai community, we involved the inhabitants of the geographically remote territories and the young people.
The overall result of the project surprised with good results, active involvement and visibility. People were happy with the activities and results of the project. And we (project promoter) are glad that the goals of the project have been achieved and the results will remain with the community. The participants of the project were left with impressions, good memories for the local community, a map, hiking routes with QR codes, trained guides who will lead the tours, and videos. All this enriches our community, mobilizes it for new challenges and projects. This project created added value for the infrastructure of Domeikava eldership. Showed direction to the community.