Description
The compulsory education age in Hungary was lowered to 16. As a consequence, vulnerable youth is not able to reinforce their needs and fully enjoy their basic human rights especially their right to education. The project promoters want to empower vulnerable young people between 10-16 and their direct environment to reinforce their interests through human rights education. To achieve this, they will organize a series of human rights education workshops in 10 after schools, 2 human rights camps, 4 thematic days both for students and their parents. They want to give them tools and different perspectives to learn about and stand for human rights. They also want this project to be sustainable and have a long term impact. Therefore they will also organize trainings for after school teachers, conference for professionals involved, informal forums for parents; they will involve 14 local NGOs and will will build online and offline relationships.
Summary of project results
The project involved 14 afterschools, with mostly roma or disadvataged students aged 10 to 16, who were unaware of their rights. The implementers wanted to empower them and their direct environment to reinforce their interests in human rights through human rights education. They sought to ensure sustainability through 3 trainings for trainers where they trained 62 human rights educators from and around the aftershools. They have also invited after-schools to participate in their human rights competition. They will furthermore look for all new opportunities to collaborate with them again in the future. With the five workshops, 2 human right camps, family days and events the organization empowered 280 students, sensitized their parents and families. They provided them with tools and different perspectives to learn more about human rights and stand up for them.
Summary of bilateral results