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Building Walls Breaking Walls
Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016 PROJET  TERMINÉ 

For 8 days during September 2015, sixteen young people (part-funded through the Erasmus+ programme) from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine (plus four young people from Switzerland who were funded separately by the Swiss government)came together on Cape Clear Island off the south west coast of Ireland to repair and build dry stonewalls as an inter-cultural youth exchange project called 'Building Walls Breaking Walls'. The hosting organisation for this successful youth exchange application , Mahon Project Ltd, has played in key role in the development and implementation of this 'Building walls Breaking walls' youth exchange concept with it successfully being held both in August 2013 and 2014 in Switzerland. The 'Building Walls Breaking Walls' youth exchange on Cape Clear Island was very successful with the young people sharing approaches of inter-cultural and interfaith encounter whilst also learning this traditional craft. These young people supported the development of local traditional infrastructure and culture while learning the methods of dry stonewalls building. A 30 metre length of traditional dry stone wall was restored and rebuilt by the young people. All of the countries involved have a heritage of dry stone walls and all have inter-cultural challenges and barriers and degrees of conflict. Aside of working on the dry stone wall all the young people also participated in intercultural workshop activities and were involved in the preparation and cooking of food and cleaning the accommodation and also experienced outdoor leisure and social activities. Through this youth exchange the participants enhanced their inter-cultural and inter-faith experiences and competences while building the dry stonewalls together with young people from different societies that have to deal with separation walls and cultural borders in a challenging or diverse cultural area.

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