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Description
The needs faced by the Giurgiu - Gaujani rural area consist in a low degree of citizen participation and a limited capacity of leaders to mobilize the community and make improvements at the community level. Young people in this area have reduced opportunities for education and involvement, their involvement and participation in civic education being essential for upholding democratic values and human rights. Young people are interested in projects and have expressed the need to get actively involved, the need for their voice to be heard. They want to participate in local council meetings, to be consulted on decisions concerning them and to have their proposals supported.
The project creates the framework and provides instruments for the active participation of youth in the community, as well as for mobilizing other citizens at local level.
The direct beneficiaries are 10 young Roma and non-Roma who will be trained in community intervention methods and project development and who will acquire instruments to become agents of change. They will be directly involved in planning at least 4 activities / events for the local community.
A local youth education center will be established and a planning local for a period of 1 year contains at least 4 activities/ events for community in which will involved at least 40 young people and reaching the at least 200 people from the community.
The partner is an important pillar in the community, working with young people for many years. It will support the implementation at local level and can take over the coordination of the center established by the project. On a longer term the young people trained in the project will propose and get involved in the implementation of new local development projects.
Summary of project results
The targeted rural area has a low degree of citizen participation and a limited capacity of leaders to mobilize the community to achieve a better quality of life. Young people have reduced opportunities for education and participation, their involvement and participation in civic education being essential for upholding democratic values and human rights. In the same time, they are interested in projects and expressed the need to get actively involved, the need for their voice to be heard (to participate in local council meetings, to be consulted on decisions concerning them).
In order to answer these needs the project aimed to identify and train a group of young leaders to develop actions for the benefit of the community and to promote civic participation and human rights at local level.
Within the project 14 local young people were selected and trained to become local leaders to mobilize community and take initiative for the benefit of the community. They involved other 50 young people in ecological initiatives, raising awareness on waste management, support for the most vulnerable etc. There was created a youth center to facilitate youth interaction and further involvement in local initiatives. A local campaign was also conducted to raise awareness and promote results of the work of the young leaders with the participation of more than 250 people. A 1-year local planning was also drawn. The project promoter developed capacity for project development and management and review the website. The results of the projects were promoted in 5 more communities and at https://asociatia-avatar.ro/centru-educational-de-tineret-gaujani/