beads

fly butterfly

more butterflies... all colors

from yesterday night

What we did

the hat

I just discovered that I can make it

just married :)

the puppets

the buttons

The cherry pin

Here's the cherry pin that Oana likes a lot.

The cherry pin

stuff we made last night

These ones we made yesterday night. We have a new EVS-er from Czech Republic and she brought some new games to play... and people were playing, but I lost the instructions and I brought my threads and buttons to make something... and then Andy attached the metal hanging thingies. I kind of like them, especially the cherry pin.

Up on Stage is done! One more to go!

We finished now Up on Stage. It was a project for impaired people and visually not impaired people. It's over now and it was nice to be around these people because we wrote the project together with another friend and we got it approved and then people could come to Olde Vechte for 2 weeks to have the greatest time of their lives.

It's nice to see blind people riding bikes!

waiting for BMW's answer on "Media Safari"

We're waiting for BMW's answer on our application for "Media Safari". "Media Safari" is a project concept for BMW Award for Intercultural commitment. We wrote it from our experience of living together with people from Kosovo, Armenia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Czech Republic. 

This project is intended to people who have central positions in NGO: trainers, youth workers, managers from all over the world, who want to find out new methods of working with media as a tool for intercultural social inclusion.

The project will be a chance offered to people who want to experience a new method of working in intercultural groups, practicing multicultural coexistence for 12 days, while using media as a tool for social inclusion. With this we want to start a platform for youth organizations from all over the world, where people can develop projects together, share ideas, create plans and activities which can benefit the personal and professional development of youth worldwide, regardless of religion, culture, nation, race. Our project will bring people together and will enable them to interact and co-create.

The plan is to address the burning issue of intercultural social exclusion present everywhere in the world nowadays. We will build a training programme based on non-formal education.  The main methodology will be learning by experience, together with presentations, case studies, small group discussions, outdoor activities, self reflection, open discussions, sharings in small and big groups. We will alternate activities facilitated by trainers with activities organized by participants, who will have space for intercultural learning and creativity. We will have a team of Synergy trainers who are experienced in working with international groups using media as a tool for personal development.

Let's see how it turns at the beginning of September.