HAFTEN -has been a youth lead project, which focused on rising awareness about the LGBTQ+ community challenges. By implementing this project, youth wanted to make the voices of young LGBTQ+ community heard. This has been facilitated by event and dialogue with decision makers ( representatives from schools, NGO's representatives, the representatives from the city hall ) in Poland and Portugal. The project activities included two awareness raising campaigns in form of "informative art exhibition" (in Portugal and Poland), which focused on highlighting the scale of problem of exclusion of LGBTQ+ community in small villages in Poland , digital photo exhibitions which raised awareness about scale of this exclusion, lack of equal rights and dialogue with the decision makers about gender-based discrimination and proposed policies to minimise it. The activities included two blended mobilities to Portugal and Poland as well as workshops and exercises which focused on development of skills (e.g. self expression, critical thinking, fake news identification) of the youth, who has been in charge of this project. The project gave young people with fewer opportunities the chance to make their voices heard and we believe made impact on the awareness of discrimination of LGBTQ+ community. The youth in charge of this project has identified important needs of young people and focused on them in this project.The LGBTQ+ community in Poland is facing a lot of challenges. A documentary movie "Tu nie chodzi o ludzi" (eng. "It is not about people" :source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9SwBihJVzY ) which includes records of the debates in polish muncipalities proves the scale of the problem, as the so-called "anti-LGBT resolutions" has been signed by local governments in a third of Poland in 2019. The statements given by most of the attendees those debates are shocking, unemphatic and should have never taken place. The local governments, who have signed the "Samorządowa Karta Praw Rodzin" ( Self-Goverment charter of Family Rights) insist, that introduction of such a card will provide kids heathy and save education as well as respect of the rights of parents by government. However many experts as well as LGBTQ+ community disagree. One of the experts, Dr Marcin Górski, legal adviser and adjunct professor at the University of Łódź, says that local government family rights charters are written in such language that they require "particular sophistication" from a judge reviewing the legality of such a resolution, which means that administrative courts are not always able to detect their discriminatory nature. In his view, one can try to distinguish between two types of resolutions - anti-LGBT and family charter. In principle, however, both types of resolutions, by making a purely arbitrary choice as to the normative connotation of the term "family", are beyond the scope of competence of any level of local government in Poland. It is true that resolutions called charters of family rights do not use 'propaganda' language and are 'cleverly' written by lawyers, but the basic problem with them is that it is not the role of self-government to define what a family is in Poland. If we hear out parts of the debate, we can definitely agree that the language is full of intolerance, verbal violence and treat LGBTQ+ community as an ideology, not people. This behaviour is followed by behaviour of some members of society who use verbal and physical violence against LGBTQ+ community. The internet is also full of negative comments with hate towards the LGBTQ+ community. The negative effects of this homofobia are huge. It has been written in the raport, which focuses on a polish boy Dominik form Bieżun, who committed suicide due to of verbal and digital violence from his peers (www. krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/homofobia-zabija-po-cichu/ -"HOMOFOBIA KILLS SILENTLY". According to the latest research carried out by the Campaign Against Homophobia, the Trans-Fuzja Foundation and Lambda Warszawa, almost 70% of LGBTQ+ teenagers have suicidal thoughts and half have symptoms of depression (data from: The social situation of LGBTA people. Report for 2015-2016 edited by Magdalena Świder and Dr. Mikołaj Winiweski). Polish people still need to manifest for equal human rights despite the gender. The rights, which has been established years ago in many of the European countries. What is more, there is so much fake news and misinformation, what just increases the amount of suicidal thoughts of LGBTQ+ community instead of supporting them. There is a need for building empathy and rising awareness, as those are important parts of having discussions about LGBTQ+ community challenges and proposal of the future policies. This project HAFTEN, by focusing on rural areas of Poland and Portugal has been aiming at contributing to making step towards having influence on future policies as well as rising awareness about the rights and required changes for the LGBTQ+ community.