CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: EYCE study session "Say NO to Hate!"

SAY NO TO HATE!

YOUNG PEOPLE ADDRESSING HATE SPEECH FROM AN INTERRELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVE

29th JUNE - 6th JULY, 2014, EUROPEAN YOUTH CENTRE BUDAPEST, HUNGARY

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” Martin Luther King Jr.

DO YOU WANT TO CHALLENGE THE HATE?
The Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe together with Religions for Peace-European Interfaith Youth network and Forum of Muslim Youth and Student organisations is organising a study session to empower young people from various religious communities to combat hate speech by promoting and implementing dialogue between religious communities and secular society. You are invited to join us from 29th June - 6th July, 2014 in European Youth Centre in Budapest, Hungary for a week of active and practical study session!
Media, especially on-line media and forums provide detachment and anonymity to encourage and hide the actors sporting discriminatory actions and forms of communication. Often the the religious communities that are a target of hate speech and different forms of hatred, which lead to exclusion and violence, need to be equipped with relevant knowledge and tools to be able to react adequately, as well as to actively engage against hate speech, discrimination and promoting diversity and inclusion! We, young people from different religious communities in Europe can make a change through actively engaging our communities!

“SAY NO TO HATE!” is designed to help you to do so.
What will you get when you come? An encouraging learning environment where you will share and learn; enriching talks from experts; hands-on workshops that will provide you with tools to run projects on personal, local as well as global levels; a broader and deeper understanding of hate speech, freedom of speech and Human Rights; the possibility to see the world through the lens of other cultures; and an opportunity to build friendships with people who will support you in your work to improve conditions in your home community and abroad.
If you have a deep conviction that all human beings deserve respect and dignity, and a desire to help them claim it, then join us for a week-long journey of growth and sharing!

Practical instructions, including information about participation fee, travel arrangements and application process follow on www.eyce.org.

CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: EYCE training course "Poverty Exposed"

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist."
- Helder Kamara

DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY THERE IS NOT ENOUGH?

The Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe is organizing a training course to help young people to be an active part of the society they live in and to challenge one of the heaviest global problems today - poverty!
You are invited to join us from 13th - 20th of April 2014 in Sofia, Bulgaria for a week of active and practical training!
The recent financial and socio-economic crisis in Europe has revealed that lack of employment is only the top of the iceberg of very complex underlying socio-economic issues, one of them being poverty. Despite of the focus on developing countries, when speaking of absolute poverty, tackling the theme of poverty would be incomplete without taking into account our nearest neighbors in need. Learning to see those in need, learning to identify patterns that sustain poverty, realising the connections from poverty to other issues, such as health, education and more, and finally - showing solidarity are the key things to be able to eradicate poverty on the grassroots level in Europe!
As Christians we believe that every single person has been created in image of God, thus with full dignity. Living in poverty means that the dignity is taken away. We must act!

"POVERTY EXPOSED" is designed to help you to do so.
What will you gain by coming to this training course? An encouraging learning environment where you will share and learn; enriching talks from experts; hands-on workshops that will provide you with tools to break the patterns of poverty and actually help the people in need; a broader and deeper understanding of mechanisms of poverty; the possibility to see the world through the lens of other cultures; and an opportunity to build friendships with people who will support you in your work to improve conditions in your ho me society and abroad.
If you believe that, then join us for a week-Iong journey of growth and sharing!

Practical instructions, including information about participation fee, travel arrangements and application process can be found on www.eyce.org or with your National Correspondent!