If we help each other,
we can go far together. Children, young people and adults need to learn
building their life values like friendship, partnership, tolerance,
consideration and mutual help. It is from this idea that our project „Sharing
the world“ started. We noticed that:
- the rights of children have always been a focus in
society (the convention of the rights of children is the most ratified treaty).
- all the partners were interested in the difficulties
and the barriers children with mild and more serious disabilities face in the
society and we realized that the risk of isolation is much bigger for these
children, as well as the risk of being discriminated.
Our project “Sharing
the world: disability and displacement” is focused on the rights of children
with special needs (disability, isolated and orphan children, refugees). The
main objectives of the project are:
- for the disabled/displaced children: a better
integration at school and in society, avoiding school leaving
- for the other pupils in school, teachers and
community: raise awareness and empathy, learn about children rights
- for the teachers: exchange of good practices.
Our project started
after seeing the necessity for pupils and the society to better understand and
respect the rights of all children (and people in general). We
therefore want to propose a project to promote inclusion, social integration
and interest in others as well as empathy. Our project is based on
several important rights of children (to housing, health, education, inclusion
in society, non-discrimination). During this project we will work on
understanding and applying this rights, especially for the disabled and
displaced children (by displaced children we understand: refugees, isolated
children or orphans).
The project will last
2 years (2017 – 2019), it involves 7 European schools: France, Latvia, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Turkey. We will organise 3
transnational meetings at the beginning, middle and end (Portugal, Latvia and
Turkey) and 4 learning/training activities (Romania, France, Slovakia,
Slovenia). The purpose of all the learning and teaching activities (C1-C4,
mentioned in details, which will be realised in Romania, France, Slovakia,
Slovenia) is to create a community of people interested in children’s rights
and willing to protect the rights of disabled/displaced children and people in
general. By better understanding the needs of disabled people, we can develop a
society where social inclusion is a successful objective. Each of the
learning/training activities was planned for a specific purpose and it is
focused on one children’ s right.
The project has 4
main parts that are developed during the 2 years: introduction part, raising
awareness (part 2) and encouraging integration (part
3) and conclusion (part 4). Each part is meant to help the
people involved directly and indirectly to better understand the project and
become involved in solving the problem. We plan to organise around one main
activity/month in every country. The activities that take place before a
learning/training mobility have as a main purpose the preparation of the
mobility. In this way both the teachers and the pupils taking place in the
mobility are prepared when they go to the partner country.