The Youth Exchange
Summary of the project
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“Truly Trullo” is a youth exchange that will take place from the 25th August to the 4th September 2012, in Cisternino (BR), a municipality of 12.076 citizens, on the south-east Italy coast. Accomodation is in two common rooms of a religious institute that also offers theater, pine forests, many playgrounds.
The project will involve 30 youngsters coming from Latvia, Spain, Croatia, Romania and Italy.
The youngsters will undergo a non formal process of intercultural and concrete learning with the main aim of using sport for social inclusion of disadvantaged young people, in particular immigrants. In this way, we want promote multiculturalism and inclusive growth, using sportive activities, workshops and debates with informal methods of learning.
Participants will organize a public event, the “ANTIRACIST WORLD CUP”(the 2th September), with the aim of promote sport for social inclusion.
The sport has a major potential as a tool for promoting social inclusion and social cohesion in European societies as it provides citizens with opportunities to interact and join social networks; helps immigrants to develop relations with other members of the society and constitutes a tool for reaching out the underprivileged or groups at risk of social exclusion.
Through its contribution to economic growth and job creation, sport can also help to revitalise disadvantaged areas.
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN FUNDED WITH THE SUPPORT FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION
