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Improving Youth Work Towards Gender Equality

Erasmus+
"Improving Youth Work Towards Gender Equality" was implemented from 06.02 to 14.02.23 in Cantabria, Spain and the mains topics were:

  • Recognising the subtle daily gender discrimination situations endured by youngsters, as a result of sexist cultural expressions and behaviors. We seek to have specific information and better understanding of the signs of gender abuse, discrimination and violence in their first stages, so that we can detect potential conflict circumstances and take action to avoid them.
  • Sharing resources and tools to address and contribute to eliminate sexism, gender violence and discrimination. We would like to learn specific and useful tools already used successfully by the involved entities, so that we can have practical resources at hand, to face such discriminatory or abusive situations and take direct and fair actions against them, if they happen in our daily work with youngsters.
  • Building a solid network of European entities determined to end up with gender discrimination and abuse, among young people. This project aims to allow the collaboration and design of future projects about Gender Issues, so that we can continue having a social improvement and impact, thanks to our actions and dissemination strategies.
I don't think there are words to describe how I feel about my participation in the "Improving Youth Work towards gender equality" program, other than the word "blessed". I feel so  lucky that HYP gave me the opportunity to experience the things that I experienced in one week in Penagos, Spain, and yet it felt like a month spent there. Both the activities with the instructors, as well as the hours I spent with my peers, who I now feel them like my siblings, was an experience I needed and I didn't know it, nor did I expect it. I feel that - and I hope that - these moments that I experienced thanks to HYP in Spain will follow me for a long time to come as a wonderful memory, support, but also a reason for new dreams. With the warmest wishes to see you all again (and with a marianito in hand). -Katerina

The project "Improving Youth Work Towards Gender Equality" was co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union.
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