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Capoeira Can Do All Things!

2020-3-TR01-KA105-0967682020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|LT|CZ|MK|ES|IT · Grant: €18,134
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesCreativity and cultureYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

There are many challenges European societies face and priorities have been planned by the European Commission regarding these challenges and problems. One of the most important of these is the marginalization of disadvantaged youth, as well as healthy living and obesity are among the problems addressed in our project. Young people with conduct disorder and problematic backgrounds often lose their self-confidence and doubt themselves, while at the same time they face discrimination, negative stereotypes and increasing social barriers. One way to help them is to make them feel more confident with Capoeira. Capoeira is an African-Brazilian martial art that combines play, music and dance. It has previously been used as a therapeutic activity, proven to increase the self-confidence of people with problems and bring the community together. To solve this problem of social exclusion, youth organizations from Spain, Czech Republic, Italy, Macedonia, Lithuania and Turkey came together for the project "Capoeira Can Do All Things". The purpose of this project is to enable youth workers to practice the art of Capoeira with the aim of healing. A training course was held in Rize on November 23-December 1 (+2 travel days) to address the main theme of the above-mentioned project (social exclusion of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds), the following objectives were set: To promote capoeira as an inclusive and therapeutic activity; To provide youth workers with appropriate information about capoeira and its philosophy, physical and musical aspects of capoeira; Developing capoeira games that everyone can participate in; Creating tools for sharing competences and capoeira therapy tools among youth workers in different countries; By drawing attention to the importance of sports and movement and obesity, directing young people to active activities in order to have an active life; The project also aims to help participants increase their social awareness, skills and multilingualism.

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