UNESCO to allocate $1 thousand per youth project
Internet radio, preparation of volunteers for children's homes and anti-stress training sessions for entrants are among them. The Belarusian Association of UNESCO Clubs finished its traditional Summer Camp of youth opportunities on August 25. The organization and its partners chose a few social and cultural projects, the budget of each projects totalled 1 thousand dollars and the projects are aimed at solving a certain problem of the youth.
The winning projects include an Internet radio station for young journalists, anti-stress training sessions for entrants, preparation of volunteers for children’s homes, educational programmes for personal development and a blog about traditional ceremonies of the national minorities of Belarus.
The projects are financed by the Representative Office of the UN Children’s Fund in Belarus together with “MTBank” and a cell phone operator life:).
“The approved projects will become part of the International Year of Youth. We will add them to the UN calendar” – said the programme coordinator of Summer University Vital Nikanovich to ERB.
The 15th Summer University of UNESCO clubs began in a children’s summer camp “Palachanka” in Valoshyn District on August 9. The Youth Ideas Exchange was one of the innovations of the informal camp. Participants of the camp invented unusual ways to solve youth problems in their cities.
The organizers call their informal summer camp “a camp of youth opportunities”. Young people learned “life skills” at numerous training sessions.
“It is applied to the formal sector most often as you cannot always acquire practical skills there. Something you can use in your life after you’ve finished your studies. For example, communication skills, problem-solving, the ability to settle conflicts, make friends and conduct negotiations”, - explains Vital Nikanovich.
To train these skills, the organizers create a certain self-government model and organize the work of the whole camp according to it every year. The 15th camp was a model of an international organization “European Federation of UNESCO Clubs”.
“We have united participants in associations. Each association had five directions of activities. Managers and their assistants for education, culture, sport, information and ecology were elected. The organizers and the youth planned, realized and assessed the events conducted there together”, - noted Vital Nikanovich.
The winning projects include an Internet radio station for young journalists, anti-stress training sessions for entrants, preparation of volunteers for children’s homes, educational programmes for personal development and a blog about traditional ceremonies of the national minorities of Belarus.
The projects are financed by the Representative Office of the UN Children’s Fund in Belarus together with “MTBank” and a cell phone operator life:).
“The approved projects will become part of the International Year of Youth. We will add them to the UN calendar” – said the programme coordinator of Summer University Vital Nikanovich to ERB.
The 15th Summer University of UNESCO clubs began in a children’s summer camp “Palachanka” in Valoshyn District on August 9. The Youth Ideas Exchange was one of the innovations of the informal camp. Participants of the camp invented unusual ways to solve youth problems in their cities.
The organizers call their informal summer camp “a camp of youth opportunities”. Young people learned “life skills” at numerous training sessions.
“It is applied to the formal sector most often as you cannot always acquire practical skills there. Something you can use in your life after you’ve finished your studies. For example, communication skills, problem-solving, the ability to settle conflicts, make friends and conduct negotiations”, - explains Vital Nikanovich.
To train these skills, the organizers create a certain self-government model and organize the work of the whole camp according to it every year. The 15th camp was a model of an international organization “European Federation of UNESCO Clubs”.
“We have united participants in associations. Each association had five directions of activities. Managers and their assistants for education, culture, sport, information and ecology were elected. The organizers and the youth planned, realized and assessed the events conducted there together”, - noted Vital Nikanovich.
