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The main purpose of the Humanitas Association is to raise awareness about global interdependence and the role individuals play in the world by educating and informing about global challenges. By promoting solidarity, responsibility, justice, and respect for human rights, they want to encourage people, especially youngsters, to actively participate and co-create a society based on social and environmental justice.
The Humanitas Association conducts interactive workshops for pupils and students; seminars and trainings for teachers, representatives of NGOs and others. They also organize various events aimed at raising public awareness about social and environmental challenges requiring different approaches to solving them. In the field of global learning, they develop various teaching aids, interactive exhibitions, and theater plays.
In the program to support children and local communities they liaised with organizations from Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Kenya. In collaboration with them they support children on their educational journey and implement projects aimed at local communities.
Over the next three years, programs in the area of global education and development cooperation will be intertwined so that their effects are mutually reinforcing. They will focus on six key areas: active citizenship, the environment, migration, development, human rights and interculturalism, thus ensuring an in-depth and broad coverage of global learning. Programs in both areas will be implemented in close partnership with other actors in the field of global learning and development cooperation, especially in Europe and Africa.
Gender equality is a relevant policy parker since field of work of Humanitas in projects if global learning and fair trade includes equal pay and equal opportunity of work.