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Description
The project is addressed to the community of Floresti Prahova and aims to approach civic and environmental issues locally identified, such as knowing and accessing one’s social rights, civic involvement, human influence on biodiversity, climate changes, degree of water/atmosphere pollution in the area (given the proximity of a large city, county capital city). This will be achieved by involving 50 children and teens (8-18 years) in theoretical and practical activities: 18 workshops on social and environmental subjects supported by practical activities in order to strengthen the theoretical ones, such as: 1 theatre play that will bring to the community''s attention the issues identified by the children, 1 trip in order to discover the biodiversity of the area and identify the existing problems, 1 greening activity, etc. The workshops on environmental topics but also all the other activities related to this field will be sustained by the project partner’s experts. The activities on civic involvement and social rights will be sustained by the applicant and will aim, beyond knowledge assimilation, to familiarize children and teens with models of good practice concerning civic participation, in order to signal and solve issues identified and experienced by the community. Also, the public activities (drawing exhibition, theatre play), aim at disseminating the information and the detected aspects among the local population (the participants’ extended families and acquaintances, local authorities’ representatives), in order to raise awareness on the existing issues and the way to intervene so as to solve them. In our approach we will rely on the importance of supporting children and teens in developing a sustainable and balanced community!
Summary of project results
The project addressed to the community of Floresti Prahova and aims to approach civic and environmental issues locally identified, such as knowing and accessing one’s social rights, civic involvement, human influence on biodiversity, climate changes, degree of water/atmosphere pollution in the area (given the proximity of a large city, county capital city).
62 children/young adults were involved in theoretical and practical activities aimed at knowledge and ways of accessing certain information regarding social rights, civic involvement, climate change and pollution. They actively participated in 21 workshops (11 social/civic and 10 environmental), during which they consolidated their knowledge related to the Constitution, children''s rights, national symbols, leadership, climate and weather, environmental pollution. The theoretical information was doubled by practical activities (role games, free and team discussions, watching educational video materials) aimed at raising the attention and interest of the participants regarding the topics addressed.
Children created a green corner in the premises of the Floresti Prahova Secondary School, participated in a greening action and went on a trip where they could put into practice the social and environmental knowledge accumulated throughout the period of the project. Also, they were encouraged to express their creativity by participating in a drawing competition with prizes, but also by writing and staging a play, which focused on the issue of bullying, presented through characters impersonated by animals. The play was attended by children enrolled in the project, their families, and other people from the community who heard about the event from acquaintances. In order to ensure the sustainability of the project, air quality measurement sensors were installed in the school premises, connected to a national monitoring network, which provide, in real time and at a click away, data on the degree of air pollution in the locality. In order to ensure the visibility of the project and the donors, the partner associations made posts on social media regarding the activities carried out, even involving the online community in voting for the drawing contest