Gwiaździsta
27/63
01-651 Warszawa
Poland
- International/Cultural relations
- Others
- Youth and education
The objectives of the Foundations are as follows:
1. Undertake educational and cultural initiatives for popularization of intercultural dialogue and formation of attitude of openness towards dissimilarities among children, youth, adults, seniors, Polish people and foreigners.
2. Protection of cultural heritage.
3. Popularization and protection of liberty, human rights and civil freedoms as well as conducting activities supporting development of democracy.
4. Development and strengthening of attitudes oriented on active cooperation in the field of development of civil society and popularization of conscious human activity in the natural environment.
5. Bringing help to victims of calamities, natural disasters, armed conflicts and wars in the country and abroad as well as cooperation with other organizations and institutions in terms of provision of such assistance.
6. Actions for diversity and people at risk of marginalization.
7. Conducting research in the field of diversity, education and intercultural competences.
8. Carrying out actions aiming at discrimination counteractions.
Brave Kids Warsaw - for the last 4 years we've been a Warsaw local partner organisation in this international project. Brave Kids is a unique cultural-educational project founded in 2009 and dedicated to uniting children from different parts of the world in an atmosphere of friendship, peace, and respect for each other’s arts and culture. During 3.5 weeks each summer, artistic groups of children come together in order to share their arts and cultures and to teach and learn from one another. The invited artistic groups come from different backgrounds: some from countries affected by humanitarian issues like natural disaster, poverty, and political conflict and others from more stable backgrounds. Together, all children participate in artistic workshops based on the core philosophy "kids teach kids" and work collaboratively to create a final performance that is presented to the public.
Let’s get to know each other – Lesznowola as a Commune of many cultures (Poznajmy się – Lesznowola Gminą Wielu Kultur)
Purpose of the project:
1. Building cultural integration through raising Polish students and preschoolers as well as students and preschoolers coming from Third Countries to be together.
2. Creation of equality, openness and antidiscrimination attitude among the hosting society through learning how to solve and counteract cultural conflicts at school, in a multicultural class.
3. Building intercultural dialogue through supporting teachers in their work with multicultural class/group.
Actions:
1. Workshops for preschoolers and Primary School students of classes 0-3 and classes 4-6 attending to all 5 schools in Lesznowola Commune (4 workshops for each class). The main purpose of the workshop is cultural sensitization of children and preparing them to live and learn in multicultural society.
2. Trainings for teachers from Lesznowola Commune schools (in total 10 trainings, which will be attended by 100 teachers). The main purpose of the trainings is to acquire and develop teachers’ competences in the area of their work with multicultural class.
3. School guide. Elaboration of the school guide for foreign students and their parents, presenting Polish education system and customs prevailing in Polish school. The guide was translated into Chinese and Vietnamese.
Pracownia językowo - kulturowa
The main goal of this project is to facilitate third-country nationals students education and the functioning of the Polish school.
Actions:
1. A series of language and aculturation workshops addressed to students from China and Vietnam
2. Purchase of dictionaries and books to the school library.
The project developed a publication, which can be the manual for teaching Polish as a foreign language for migrating pupils and students.
Little traveller's club - workshops for children
The idea of this projet is to travel with the youngest kids, from kindergartens, through the cultures of different countries. The kids become more open to the diversity and more willing to learn about diversity.
First of all we can contribute by sharing our experience from organisaing intercultural projects in different fields. We can organise study visit in our organisation, exchange experience, organise and conduct workshops and trainings. We can share our knowledge and experience in intercultural educations, supporting migrating kids and adults, intercultural dialogue through cultural projects based on our experience with Brave Kids.
We would like to join the ALF Network to have an opportunity to meet other organisation operating in the same field in different countries. We are open and willing to share experience, ideas, meet, exchange and build partnerships to develop common projects to promorte the intercultural dialogue. We would like to broaden our horizons and cooperating more with organisations outside Poland. We would like to also pariticpate in meetings,exchanges to get inspirtation for future projects.