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The commune of Grădinari, Olt County, has a highly marginalised community. The problems identified at local level, according to the Local Development Strategy of the commune for the period 2015-2021, belong to areas such as: education, lack of family-school-community partnership, employment and assistance, lack of professional and occupational counselling centres and environment. There is also a weak dialogue between the citizens of the commune and the local authority.
The project will address these problems by increasing the civic involvement of the local community, through non-formal education actions in science and environmental protection, carried out in the framework of the school-family-local community partnership and community volunteering actions. Also by increasing the level of information and counselling of a group of young people, with a view to their socio-economic integration through professional counselling. A meeting of young people with representatives of local authorities, economic agents and NGOs will be facilitated. The expected results of the project will be: young people counselled and informed about employment and the importance of completing compulsory education; teachers with new skills who will be able to pass on information to their pupils through project-based teaching methods and will be able to form future active citizens who will be involved in solving problems in their community; 150 children and pupils will be able to participate in educational workshops on environmental protection and in a schoolyard greening and landscaping action.
340 members of the local community will benefit from the project''s educational, counselling and volunteering activities.
The project partner, the Learning by Teaching Association, with its experience in educational actions targeting rural school communities, will be instrumental in raising community awareness and civic engagement.