Italie

Youth Exchanges and trainings on volunteering, leadership, intercultural communication and multicultural dialogue, raze awareness on migration related issues like exclusion, discrimination and marginalization.

Activities ongoing are:
- First-aid for the immigrant population in the Caserta’s area, is open three times a week;
- Field Unit for immigrants drugs addicted, damage limitation in the Domitiana area in Castel Volturno (CE);
- Orientation for girls forced into prostitution;
- Accompanying public-health services, with the mediation of cultural mediators;
- Home care for immigrants with HIV, in collaboration with the “Cotugno” hospital in Naples;
- Assistance and aid to young mothers (often with experiences of sexual exploitation);
- hospitality low-threshold for drug addicted immigrants, in collaboration with Caritas of Capua;
- local animation on immigration issues, through the theater group composed of immigrants and Italians (Nero di tutti I colori). This theater group performs his activities in the schools of the area.
- Laboratory of social tailoring.
the association realized  many projects on intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism issues; It has also published  many books and texts, taking part in scientific research on health screening and also involved in many events finalized to investigation on immigration issues.

La storia de “Il mio pezzetto di sole” e’ cominciata nel 2009 ed è stata per due anni la storia di Roberto, volontario italiano, e di Ando, assistente sociale malgascio. Ora è diventata la storia di Roberto e Luisa in Italia. E di Ando e Raissa in Madagascar. E della loro Casa famiglia Bartolomeo Garelli. Una storia d’amore e di amicizia. Tra uomini e donne, tra mondi diversi, tra adulti e bambini.
Quattro anni fa i due amici, passeggiando la sera nel mercato del paese, vicino ad Antanarivo, videro tanti bambini abbandonati, con pochi stracci addosso, sporchi ed affamati. Roberto decide di offrire ad Ando i soldi per prendere una casa in affitto e l’assistente sociale, dopo averne individuata una adatta, va a parlare con i bambini incontrati al mercato, per conoscerli e per proporre loro l’opportunità della Casa. Questi ragazzi vivevano in mezzo all’immondizia e trascorrevano la notte sotto banchi malmessi del mercato, sia durante la stagione calda che durante quella delle piogge. La loro età era tra i 13 e i 16 anni, avevano tutti sofferto di difficili situazioni familiari, erano malvestiti e malnutriti; uno di loro, Mbola, all’età di 15 anni pesava 25 chili. Oggi i ragazzi sono 16, vivono tutti insieme all’assistente sociale, che nel frattempo si è sposato con Raissa, all’interno di una serena realtà familiare; ognuno di loro e’ protagonista di un proprio progetto educativo e può perfino permettersi di fare sogni per il proprio futuro.
In Italia si è sposato anche Roberto. Con Luisa. Durante l’estate vanno in Madagascar, nella Casa Famiglia anche loro, ne condividono i ritmi, le gioie, gli impegni, i disagi. Sul posto acquistano prodotti dagli artigiani locali, selezionando quelli più bravi e bisognosi di aiuto; prodotti che rivendono in Italia, per raccogliere fondi e mandare avanti l’iniziativa con la collaborazione dell’Associazione e dei volontari malgasci che si sono uniti ad Ando e Raissa.
Tutti operano secondo le proprie possibilità: i volontari malgasci mettendo a disposizione il loro tempo e le loro capacità genitoriali, e gli italiani vivendo con loro in Casa Famiglia un periodo dell’anno e impegnandosi a sostenere economicamente il progetto attraverso iniziative di sensibilizzazione.

Modifying the image of the female role in the society
Assessing women’s human and civil rights
Supporting a wise legislation focused on women rights
Developing awareness- raising activities for preventing and combating violence in the civil society and in the communities

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Consultancy
ESTER undertakes activities of consulting to Public institutions and Associations of the civil society for design, presentation, implementation, accounting, evaluation, of projects financed in the area of European initiatives
Training
Ester promotes customized training courses on
The European programming and designing, specifically, the project cycle management applying Logical Framework Analysis
Costruction of transnational networks
Ester promotes the development of transnational networks in order to establish mechanisms for a major participation of the regional and local communities to the European decision making.

Projects involving youngsters: Bibliopolis, Informando, Noi per Voi, S.O.S.

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IS OUR MAIN PROJECT - with a lot of activities in all field of nature 1. Lecturing about aromatic plants, about, environment, about medical properties, holistic approach,

2011 - 2015: Progetto PSR Campania Colture Orticole Protette Zero CO2
2015: Progetto PSR Campania IAAS Influenza delle condizioni pedoambientali e delle tecniche agronomiche per la coltivazione di Stevia in Campania
2015: Progetto PSR Campania CEREAMICO
2014: Progetto VISAS
2013: Progetto PSR Molise TERRITORI CHE FANNO LA COSA GIUSTA
2012 - 2015: Progetto PSR Campania GAL Cilsi 
2009: Progetto Terra Felix
2009: Progetto TG della Innovazione 

This is some of the main activities of Associazione Giosef Unito (as promoter and as partner)  in the framework of Euromeditarranean cooperation:
“Across the Lines”
Time: June 2016 - November 2016
Where: Turin
Aim: The project aims to reflect on the different dimensions of international mobility as a tool to encourage active participation and citizenship, intercultural and interreligious dialogue in the field of Euro Mediterranean cooperation, focusing on the elements which support or counteract this cooperation between young people.
The specific objectives of the project are: recognize and deconstruct stereotypes, prejudices and discrimination in the area of ethnic and national identity, be part of between minorities within majorities; deepen the concepts related to migration and mobility of young people, clarifying basic terms such as refugee, asylum seeker, migrant worker, stateless person; recognize social, cultural and bureaucratic situations and context which can facilitate cooperation between Mediterranean youth; share the similarities and the differences in the analysis of mobility phenomenon and how its diverse dimensions are perceived in each local context; identify and deconstruct prejudices and stereotypes about different cultures; support and promote the intercultural and interreligious dialogue in order to enrich one’s perception of the world.
Beneficiaries: young people aged 18-25.
Type of funding: Erasmus Plus Programme - KA1 - Youth Exchange
Partner/sponsorship: Giosef Unito (Italy), AMSED (France), Cross Culture Youth Group (Egypt), Dinamik Gelisim Dernegi (Turkey), Club Culturel Ali Belhouane Tunis (Tunisia), Young Women’s Christian Association (Lebanon).
“Gender upon a time”
Time: June 2015 - November 2015
Where: Turin
Aim: The project aims to develop a society inclusive towards every kind of diversity, especially about themes related to gender roles and expression. The traditional gender roles, culturally and historically defined, can threaten the free expression of one’s own gender identity, provoking at the same time exclusion and discrimination of people who reject them, as well as blaming of people who identify with them.
The main objective of the project is to provide to the participants of the exchange occasions of exchanges among different cultures, in order to raise awareness on the socially constructed nature of traditional gender roles; this will be achieved through theatrical and non formal education methodologies.
Beneficiaries: young people aged 18-25.
Type of funding: Erasmus Plus Programme - KA1 - Youth Exchange
Partner/sponsorship: European Commission, Waseela For Training and Development (Egypt), Greenhouse Malta, Club Culturel Ali Belhouane Tunis (Tunisia), Parada ponosa Beograd (Serbia), AleancaLGBT (Albania).
 
“I-Gender”
Time: september 2016 - december 2017
Where: International Training Course in Murcia (Spain) - Focus groups and local actions in each partner Country 
Aim: The I-Gender project aims at developing educational methodologies to include and tackle gender  issues efficiently when working with young people in contexts with an intercultural dimension. 
An international training course will be held in February 2017 in Spain for youth workers willing to explore the role of gender in intercultural education and to share, learn and develop non formal learning methodologies to promote gender equality.
The course will be designed as a mutual learning situation where the vast regional diversity of approaches will be endorsed as an opportunity to explore further into social and personal meanings of these concepts. With the support and supervision of the team, participants will develop an educational curricula on gender related issues and gender equality promotion in an intercultural education frame.
In March 2017  each  partner will organize one local focus  group to receive feedback from experts on the developed curricula, to explore with them its strengths  and weaknesses, and,if needed,  to furtherly adapt it to the local context.
Each partner in a workshop of 8 hours will then apply the curricula with minimum 25 young people in their own community between April and June 2017. Each partner in a local press conference between July and  August 2017 will present the results of the project.
Beneficiaries:
Type of funding:
Partnership/sponsorship: Euroaccion - Coordinating Organization (Spain), Giosef Unito (Italy), The Mediterranean  Forum for Youth (Morocco),  I Dare for Sustainable Development (Jordan), IYDA - Intercultural Youth Dialogue Association (Egypt).
- Euromed IV
“Children First”
Time: 28 May - 04 June 2016
Where: Tunis - Tunisia
Aim: the project aims to advance knowledge and respect for children's rights in the society which has many implications: to inform on existing rights and to promote the culture of debate and discussion about children's rights. In many areas, practices and laws must change, we must raise awareness of the existence of fundamental rights that children hold, which implies a change of the mentality. This action is part of an education process which is based of course on the need to enable all actors of society to appropriate the knowledge, principles and standards to build their own perception, opinions and positions.
Beneficiaries: youth workers, facilitators, trainers over 18 years old
Type of funding: Euromed - Training Course
Partnership/sponsorship: Sanabel Tunisia (Tunisia), Giosef Unito (Italy), Sting for Consultancy and Design   (Egypt), United Religions Initiative URI MENA – (Jordan), TERRA DI MEZZO (TDM) 2000 MALTA – (Malta), CISTUS (Portugal).
“EVS in Club Culturel Ali Bolhouane”
Time: december 2015 - July 2016
Where: Tunis - Tunisia
Beneficiaries: Young people - EVS volunteer  
Type of funding: Euromed - EVS
Partnership/sponsorship: Club Culturel, Giosef Unito

“Sans violence...on avans”
Time: 8/16 November 2015
Where: Hammamet, Tunisia
Aim: Education for Non-Violence plays a crucial role in the development of active citizenship and the promotion of a democratic culture. But the success of education for citizenship and democracy relies on the promoting of several other factors and values such as education in non-violence. In this context, the role of this training course is to promote the learning of democracy, citizenship, human rights, through active participatory approaches that focus on strengthening peaceful coexistence and the promotion of a culture of peace without violence.
The project will gather 6 partners from Tunisia, Algeria, Palestine, Belgium, Greece and Italy. And it will be an opportunity for youth workers from different backgrounds to exchange their experiences and good practices in this field and discuss how to build a common action plan in order to create a peaceful environment.
Beneficiaries: youth workers, facilitators, trainers over 18 years old
Type of funding: Euromed - Training Course
Partnership/sponsorship: Sanabel Tounsia (Tunisia); GIOSEF UNITO (Italie); Association éducative et culturelle Arc en Ciel (Algeria); Association pour le Développement et l’Emancipation des Musulmans  (ASBL) (Belgium) AsSamou’ Municipality (Palestine) SOLIDARITY TRACKS (Greece).