Local impact

Local impact was a particularly important issue on this project. To engage local youth workers and local youth in a very concret outcome was a goal of this project. An open day to the community was the way chosen to reach this objective. The activity itself was painting a mural in the center of Angra do Heroísmo. Supported by local youth workers the youngsters were involved in the preparation of the activity previously, presenting some ideas. Before the painting itself were, small group projects were present and got together as a final project. Juvenal and Helena, two local artists, helped us. Many thanks to them. Check out part of the process and the final result.

Fighting the Volcano

It seems the name of a movie...but it was real and boring! Creatives Strategies to Approach Challenging Youth was suppose to start on the 18th of April, with participants from several countries. The project did start but only with some of the participants, due the Icelandic Volcano and it's consequences. And during they kept arriving to Terceira Island.

Although all of the problems, we managed to approach the main issus that got different organisations together. Here are some pictures of the workshops, small group work and other actvities that were developed during the project. The pictures ilustrate some acitvities on the use of games or drama with young people with fewer opportunities or the main features of EVS.

For all of those that got here and all of those who tried hard do make it too, thank you for effort.

A special thanks to Estefanía and Lily that made the first three day of the TC possible.

Nektarios Basdekis

Nektarios Basdekis

My name is Nektarios Basdekis.
I'm a photographer and also IT expert, working in NGO ANTIGONE (http://www.antigone.gr/) and in Youth Centre of Stavroupoli as a volunteer.
I have a long lasting volunteeer and working experience with vulnerable groups (vocational trainings with prisoners, migrants, people with disabilities).
I work also as official trainer of chess and arbitrer, teaching in schools and libraries in the local municiaplity. I finally have a wide working experience in the field of electronics, informatics, media. Unfortunetly, my life is very busy, but I still manage to do things that I enjoy.

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Stephen Scott

Hi all, my name is Stephen Scott. I am the Community Development Co-ordinator for an organisation called Re-Entry.

Re-Entry is an educational initiative which supports local schools in their strategy to engage with children who are not-attending and/or facing barriers to learning. We undertake both formal and non-formal approaches to education.

Although a large proportion of our work is with children aged between 10-16 years of age, we have a range of successful adult programmes which include themes such as: mentoring, parental support and emotional health.

My role is very busy, with no two days being the same! At times, the job can be both challenging and frustrating but when success arrives; it is deeply rewarding.