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Photography. The Mirror of Our Soul

2024-1-PL01-KA152-YOU-0002051432024Mobility of young peopleongoing
Countries: PL|CZ|SK|LT · Grant: €38,390
Physical and mental health, well-being

Objectives

As a result of this project, we delved into the subject of promoting a healthy lifestyle on three levels: a) physical activity, doing sports, b) healthy eating, c) taking care of one's mental condition. As a result of participating in the project, we realized that the current lifestyle of most young people (eating in fast food restaurants, addiction to social media, lack of physical activity due to delving into the virtual world, impaired interpersonal interaction skills, lack of stress resistance, etc.) has already crossed a symbolic red line. Through participation in the project, we developed our passion for photography, while at the same time developing awareness of leading a healthy lifestyle. We learned to use photography as a tool to change the reality around us (by "infecting others" with a healthy lifestyle). During the project, we managed to show a healthy lifestyle using photography. The photographs we took during the youth exchange teach, inspire, motivate, affect positive emotions, and all this with one goal - to provoke the need for a healthy lifestyle in the recipients. During the youth exchange we learned how taking photographs translates into changing the reality around us. During the "Photography. The Mirror of Our Soul" project we developed photographic skills, acquired specialist knowledge in the field of photography, confronted various approaches to taking photographs, deepened awareness, and acquired knowledge and skills in the field of leading a healthy lifestyle, and using this knowledge and skills in working for other people, we learned how to combine passion for photography with popularizing the message we want, broadened horizons by giving our activities an international character, confronted various approaches (of people from six different countries) to the main theme of the project, developed European awareness, established intercultural dialogue, built attitudes of tolerance and understanding for diversity, broke stereotypical ways of thinking about other nationalities, experienced cultural knowledge, created friendly relations between project participants, as well as effective mechanisms of cooperation between our organizations, which already result in increased opportunities for personal development of each of the project participants and increased opportunities for our organizations to achieve their statutory goals, learned how to effectively cooperate in international groups and improve our competences in the field of communication in English, we acquired or developed project awareness, which allows us to climb in the structures of our organizations, we stimulated our own creativity, we learned to solve problems in an unconventional way. Thanks to participation in the project "Photography. The Mirror of Our Soul" we acquired knowledge and practical skills in the field of using photography as a tool to promote a healthy lifestyle. We managed to show positive patterns of behavior in the photographs we took. We understood that we have the power to act and "armed ourselves" with tools thanks to which we are able to really influence the reality in which we live. Participation in the project turned out to be fertile ground for us, watered with knowledge, skills and experiences, on which subsequent project initiatives are already "growing" referring directly or indirectly to the main issues of the project "Photography. The Mirror of Our Soul".

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