Dziaugsmo
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11302 Vilnius Lithuania
Lithuania
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Youth Center Babilonas (Vilnius, Lithuania) - non-profit non-governmental organization established in 1993. All activities are based on communication and active participation, self-expression and own initiative to help youngsters to experiment using different forms of arts and their own creativity. NGO, 2 staff members, other people work according contracts; Budget per year vary from 10 000 € to 100 000€. It depends on projects. Sources of funding - local and European funds, Youth in action program, Municipality funds, etc. Our partners - different LT schools and many European partners.
Our mission - to re-establish the real value of human being through the new attitude towards communication, cooperation, positiveness and personal development .... Objectives: self-expression and self-cognition; mobility and promotion of the person; intercultural learning; creativity and artistic expression as means of communication and reaching out for young people and educators, etc/
• Workshops built on active participation, communication and cooperation, learning by doing and other purposeful group activities for their social and emotional development - for school classes; • Seminars, trainings and long term projects (more than 20) for Lithuanian school teachers and other educators (for their personal development) based on the forms of non formal education; • More than 80 intercultural youth exchanges since 1993 with different European partners; • Summer camps for disadvantaged young people and children from foster home; • The main project for high school classes “Another week” - based on methods of youth non-formal education (the age of targets: 14-18 years old). The whole class during 5 days (not attending the school) have creative workshops built on their own active participation, communication and cooperation, learning by doing and other purposeful group activities for their social and emotional development. Professional artists and youth workers are leading these groups. Youngsters themselves choose the topics for the week. Generally chosen topics are: relationship with adults, bullying, loneliness, unknown future, daily school life, etc. • Intercultural youth exchanges.
We have really lots of intercultural experience and different experience working with children, parents and teachers and - we are ready to share it.
To be able to get the information for different trainings opportunities, events, funds, etc.
