Puławska 114/12 Street
02-620 Warsaw
Poland
Warsaw
Poland
- International/Cultural relations
Our main mission is to create a platform of developing friendship and understanding between people coming from various cultural, religious and social background. We want to promote a dialog,cooperation and democracy as a way to achieve better standars of life. We find it very important to work with people who have the biggest influence on youths like teachers and educators because we believe that the attitudes they present play a crucial role in raising children. We also find it important to strengthen leadership skills of young people, give them opportunity to develope competences in social communication, conflict management, expressing emotions in socially approved ways etc. One of our roles is as well fighting stereotypes and preudices by giving people a chance to learn and experience contact with representatives of other cultures under a suprvision and support of qualified facilitators.
Our two main projects carried out every year are:
- Cultural exchange for students from Poland and Israel (including also representatives of Polish and israeli minorities like: druze, arabs, beduins, gypsies). Participating in a project taking place for a week in Poland and a week in Israel gives them possibility not only to experience and discover the richness of other country culture but also to establish friendship relations with people from their country representing other cultural or religious background, learn from each other, exchange opinions and points of view.
- Seminars for Israeli teachers and educators in Poland- This project is extremely important because of a long and rich history of coexistance of Polish and Jewish nation and its tragic end during Second World War. Its aim is to deeper knowledge of Israeli teachers and educators in the field of 1000 years of Polish-Jewish common history, Polish-Israeli relations and contemporary Poland. ne of the most important things is to give them possibility to meet Polish students, teachers, volunteers, employees of non-governmental organizations. To establish person to person relations and discover real people after the wall of stereotypes and prejudices and see the reality that is often not exactly what participants imagine before. The project helps to establish also cooperation between educational, cultural and research centres and institutions from both countries.
Other projects:
Intercultural projects - we are planning to establish a series of workshops dedicated to families aiming to show culture of minorities in Poland and give possibility to meet its representatives.
In our closest plans is also preparing intercultural communication seminars for people from Israel (Jesh and Arabs), African, Middle-eastern and European countries
We would be happy to share the experience of our educators and facilitators and cooperate as a partners or supporting organizations with other organizations from ALF Network.
It is important for us to extend our knowledge and competences to support the society and other organizatins.
Anna Lindh Foundation share the interest in values that we were created to promote, like education with special interest in young people, culture, intercultural dialog which importance is growing with bigger and bigger tendention of migration around the world and what it leads to- the need of coexistance of people from different cultural and religious backgrounds, active citizenship and networking.
Because of that we find it very important to become a part of AF network to look for a new partners from various countries, share experience with other organizations, look for an inspiration in creating new and more effective programs that would be beneficial for the society.