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Building Walls Breaking Walls

2020-1-IE01-KA105-0657432020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: IE|PS|UK|IL · Grant: €20,903
Creativity and cultureEthics, religion and philosophy (incl. Inter-religious dialogue)Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The objectives were:- - To create a safe learning space for a nature experience for 16 young people from 4 different countries. - To educate young people in traditional and ecological handcraft and to repair/build dry stonewalls as an inter-cultural cooperation project. - To support the inter-cultural learning between young people from the participating European and Middle Eastern countries. - To bring down culture and religion-based stereotypes and fight xenophobia among young people - To create a space of sharing experiences with walls in conflict areas. - To be physically active through outdoor activities. -To participate in the preparation and cooking of food and cleaning of the accommodation. For the sixth time, sixteen young people (part-funded through the Erasmus+ programme) from Ireland, Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine (plus four young people from Switzerland who were funded separately by the Swiss government) came together for an 8 day residential youth exchange on Cape Clear Island off the south west coast of Ireland to repair and build dry stonewalls and engage in intercultural workshops as an inter-cultural and environmental youth exchange project called 'Building Walls Breaking Walls'. Once again, Mahon Project Project Ltd. were the Irish applicant and hosting organisation for this youth exchange .

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