Where : Tricase (Le) - Puglia - Italy
Kind of Project: Multilateral Youth exchange
Theme: Youth, Memory and Poverty in Europe
Length: 10 days (17 September - 27 September 2013)
Participants number: 16 volunteers (4 per country) and 4 group leaders (1 per country)
This is a young project to promote the cooperation and the gathering of young European people stimulating them to reflect on the concept of poverty in the different cultures of provenience and with a historical research about the conditions of their parents and grandparents. The countries involved (Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece , famous with the acronym of “PIGS”) lives a difficult period of economical and social crisis. Common people is compelled to pay the costs of this situation: unemployment, increase of poverty, emigration, illegality, protests... During the 20th century the older generations faced the same problems but in a totally different context. Young people will works on these differences among cultures and generations.
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