Groups should form like 6 youngsters from Netherland. Youngsters should be between 15-30 years old while there is no age limit for leaders. Project venue Bildungsstätte Alte Schule Anspach Schulstr. 361267 Neu-Anspach Germany Dates: 17-25 January 2023 The goals of our project; Raising the youth’s awareness about Down syndrome, Autism and Mental disabilities/health. Teaching participants the problems that these individuals are facing and finding solutions. Raising the youth’s awareness about the wrongdoings that effects these people who are health-wise disadvantaged. Creating empathy by putting these different people together. Creating solutions for reintroducing these young people to society, by brainstorming with them.

Diversity in the culture positively affects societies in economical and social way as well as reinforce. European identity and build peace and respect for others; therefore an effective and constructive dialogue. between people and cultures should be developed for empowering inclusiveness in the societies(Harris, 2007). As Drawing To Health, consisting of people from different cultural and social groups, decided to organise a Youth Exchange to make contribution to this common problem of the Europe with international collaborationto develop a dialogue among society.

Take your chance and come to Deventer! In the NEWork project, we developed a toolkit to help supervisors, teachers and other stakeholders around supervision and teaching. On December 4th, we’ll take you through the project results. More information? click on the link below.

Following the idea that “Citizenship involves volunteering but not all volunteering involves citizenship”, social participation is closely linked with volunteering. While the situation is better than when we talk about active citizenship, the numbers are still very low. According to Eurostat, only 20.7% of the population over 16 in EU are taking part in volunteering activities (an average calculated between formal and informal voluntary activities). Cyprus and Romania are again on the bottom of the list, with only 4,9% and 3,2% of the population volunteering. The other countries are not in a better position either, almost a half of the EU member states (14 countries) having less than 15% of the population involved in volunteering. Therefore, there is an obvious balance between the involvement in voluntary activities and active citizenship, and the majority of the population from the EU countries doesn’t get involved in the society

In the NEWork project, we developed a toolkit to help supervisors, teachers and other stakeholders around supervision and teaching. On Dec. 4, we’ll take you through the project results. More information? click on the link below.

We are looking for 2 more Dutch participants! 20-29 October 2022 Çorum, Turkey PROJECT OBJECTIVES The aims of our project are as follows: – Raising awareness about the difficulties experienced by people with disabilities – Sharing the best practices for the inclusion of people with disabilities in social life across Europe by participating organizations – Introducing cultural/artistic/educational differences for the social development of disabled people in our country to other participating organizations – Increasing the awareness of the participating young people about social issues by coming together with their peers from different cultures https://www.drawingtohealth.com/en/donthinder/