Title: Equaling educational opportunities of teenagers from rural areas with hope for a better start into adult life
Beneficiary: Lubatowa Friends Association
City: Lubatowa
Implementation period: October 2009 – July 2010
Focus area: Support and reinforcement of the underprivileged and discriminated
Main aim of for implementation of the project is to prevent marginalisation of teenagers from rural areas of Lubatowa through equalising their educational opportunities. The project is directed at teenagers aged between 13 and 18, from Lubatowa village, living in families with low material status or endangered with marginalisation. Project partner will be Slovak Tourists Club Doliny a Hory, with which we have signed a partnership contract – says Stanisław Zając the chairman of the Lubatowa Friends Association, the project coordinator.
The project assumes implementation of four modules between October 2009 and July 2010. All activities during the whole implementation period will take place once a week for two hours (24 hours in total for a module) between 16:00 and 19:00:
I – dancing lessons (October – December 2009)
II – craftsmanship and artistic handiwork workshops (January - March 2010)
III – innovative language learning (April - June 2010)
IV – meeting Slovakian cultural heritage (July 2010)
Aims and objectives of the project assume connecting elements of science, healthcare, culture into one coherent action programme. Because most project participants did not have contact with each other, the first activities of the project (module I) – the dancing lessons – will be an integrating factor. Lessons will be conducted by a qualified and specialised staff, at the sports hall in the elementary school in Lubatowa.
Module II will cover a series of workshops in craftsmanship and artistic handiwork. The classes will take place between January and March, and will be conducted by persons doing that for a living because it is their life passion. The teenagers will be able to show their abilities in different art forms such as: hay works, sculpture, painting etc. Thanks to that, students will learn the theoretical basics of a given technique, as well as the character and the method how to produce them.
Module III will be connected with foreign language learning. The classes will be innovative and will take place in 15 persons groups. Assuming that “nature teaches the best”, some of these activities will take place outside, during trips with the teacher, among nearby hills. Such form of classes not only will help in practical vocabulary learning, but also will have a healthcare aspect.
Module IV will cover meetings with Slovakian cultural heritage. Therefore a four-day trip to Slovakia will be organised. The participants will include 15 persons, who show the greatest commitment in the modules, or will score the highest amount of points in the language test finishing module III of the project (5 persons from each module).
During the excursion, the teenagers will be able to participate in meetings with the members of Slovakian Tourists Club Doliny a Hory and in lectures on Slovakian culture, local teenagers’ problems, and will be able to participate in sightseeing trips.
Additionally, during the project, there will be sightseeing and educational lectures about the Polish and Slovakian cultural heritage.
