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URBAN REMEDY: youth empowerment through community gardening

2019-1-DE04-KA105-0179052019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: DE|MD|GE|PS|UK|HU|EG · Grant: €31,986.51
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Rural development and urbanisationEnvironment and climate change

Objectives

The overarching project aim is to grow capacity in field of youth work through community gardening as a youth work tool in disregarded suburban areas to raise awareness towards the global issues of climate change and its associated causes and problems amongst young people in the local level. The project will equip youth with valuable knowledge and experience in urban gardening, re-greening, sustainability and food production; as well as to tackle through developing urban gardening as a youth work tool. All these tools and concepts that are not every day themes within the youth, but are essential in creating an ability for increasing resilience through facilitating empowerment and shared learning. Gardening can be and should be used as a tool for social inclusion, especially in areas with high poverty risks and amongst young people with fewer opportunities. Therefore this project will enable the youth participants to inspire their peers and share their newly found passion for green urban spaces in a sustainable community managed way that enables change and overcoming intercultural and other differences. Objectives of the Urban Remedy project are: To equip youth with necessary tools for working in neglected suburban areas; To empower youth workers and youth in the field of community building and help them acquire necessary competences to work not only with their immediate peers, but also youth with fewer opportunities, with a migrational background and to promote integration; To work together in developing the concept of community gardening as a tool for youth work; To develop job related skills in youth, such as, realizing projects, finding funding, working with volunteers and target groups; To observe possibilities of implementation of the learning work outcomes from partner organizations, to collect and process feedback; To reflect on the concept and share practical tools and techniques for urban gardening as a youth work tool for social inclusion; To promote gardening as a community building tool through various means, such as social media, networking events and public events; To extract and disseminate the knowledge gathered and created on project topics; To ignite public discussion on thematics and involve local municipalities.

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