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Being the change and making changes happen
Date du début: 1 mai 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

The globalization we are experiencing in today’s society, by that we mean the progressive openness of borders between countries and the intensification off the migratory flow, leads us to a simple conclusion: we are living with people from mixed origins who don’t always have the same cultural background and the same way of thinking than us. It’s difficult for some people to be faced with individuals from another culture because we are forced to review our way of thinking and living. Furthermore we could argue that the extensive media coverage is not helping us, on the contrary it feeds the fear that we could feel for “strangers” who are assimilated to the unknown. Our project and it’s key goals are based on this double reality in which our youngsters are living: We want them to experience a cultural exchange where they will understand the difficulties but also the plus points of living in a mixed cultural setting. They will be able to open up to another culture and not follow the flow of people who are rejecting without knowing. For this project, we will travel with our 30 youngsters (50/50 in gender) to Peja in Kosovo where we will meet and live with another group of 24 youngsters (40% of girls and 60% of boys). Both groups are excited and motivated to share about questions around the theme “living together”. All activities will be realised there with the entire group. The methodology we will use in order to achieve our goals is based on the way young people like to learn these days: we will develop the reflexion through practise. We will always do something in practise, an activity which will enable us to debate on the key learnings we took from it. We will go through subjects such as the difficulty of diversity, the discovery of a new culture, an analysis of our own norms, the benefits of cultural diversity,…The impacts expected on the youngsters are rather explicit when you understand the goals of the project. We aim to open the eyes of the youngster in order for them to become more open-minded citizens and actors of the world they are living in. In the long term, we want them to share their experience and the values they took from it with the people around them. Eventually, these youngsters are the upcoming chiefs of our scouts movements and will lead children aged from 6 to 16. Therefore, we can only be grateful to have the opportunity of living this cultural exchange and educating the scout leaders of tomorrow.

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