My Story of Resistance – From exclusion to active participation Erasmus Project

General information for the My Story of Resistance – From exclusion to active participation Erasmus Project

My Story of Resistance – From exclusion to active participation Erasmus Project
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Project Title

My Story of Resistance – From exclusion to active participation

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

When talking about discriminated minorities, even well-intentioned supporters and youth workers fall into the trap of creating and maintaining narratives where these groups and individuals appear as passive victims of politics, history and power. We believe that these narratives have to be challenged, flipped and transformed into new ones in which young people are active agents of their lives and futures, able to create and utilize tools for changing their social positions. Within this new narrative, we see the efforts taken by the participating organizations and their youth workers as acts of resistance, because they are challenging the status quo by empowering the young people themselves.All participating organisations work with young people from different minority groups: Dalit students in India; young Roma in Spain and Hungary; Indigenous (Mayangna, Miskito, Rama) and / or Afro-Caribbean descendant youth in Nicaragua; and refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. Young people from these groups have been marginalized, discriminated, in some cases persecuted. Historical backgrounds and the “reasons” as well as the forms of their exclusion vary from group t group, from country to country. Our aim is to learn about the different contexts, and the struggles of minority youth, to exchange practices for empowering young people who face social exclusion and develop new ways for sharing their stories of resisting exclusion and marginalization, racism and discrimination. This project aims to develop the capacities of young people for advocating for and asserting their human rights through volunteering; sharing and adapting existing practices form different contexts; and a youth exchange where they can acquire techniques for sharing their stories with a wider audience. At the same time, the capacities of the participating organisations will be developed through exchanging volunteers form minority groups in India, Nicaragua, Spain, Italy and Hungary; and by familiarizing new methods of youth empowerment which they can utilize in their local work in the future.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 109885,44 Eur

Project Coordinator

RGDTS ROMA GADJE PARBESZED AZ ONKENTES SZOLGALAT ALTAL NONPROFIT KFT & Country: HU

Project Partners

  • STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT OF INDIA
  • FUNDACION MARIJN FUNMARIJN
  • FEDERACIÓN DE ASOCIACIONES GITANAS DE CATALUÑA
  • COMMISSIONE SINODALE PER LA DIACONIA