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Summer Activities!!!
To all young Cypriots looking for adventure!!!
Youth Activism Summer Camps 2010
Don’t make your summer arrangements without checking out the Youth Activism Summer Camps. This year two very special camps are taking place. For the 13-17 age group a summer camp surrounding the themes of Peace and Sports Education will take place in Kyrenia between the 24th and 30th of June. This camp will be co organized by Greek Cypriot Organization Soma Akriton Youth Centre and Turkish Cypriot Organization KAYAD Community Centre. For more information contact Soma Akriton on 00357 22 345590 or info@somaakriton.com.cy Or KAYAD Community Centre on 0090 392 22 70 751 or info@kayadcommunitycenter.com. For 18-24 year olds we have a wonderful experience planned for the 2nd – 8th of July of which 3 days will be spent in Kritou Terra Paphos and 3 Days in Bellapais Kyrenia. This camp will focus on the themes of Peace and Environmental Education and is being co organized by Turkish Cypriot Organisation KAYAD Community Centre and Greek Cypriot Organisation Environmental Studies Centre. For more information contact KAYAD Community Centre on 0090 392 22 70 751 or info@kayadcommunitycenter.com Or the Environmental Studies Centre on 00357 26 332532 or director@esc.com.cy
Missions to Bosnia – Herzegovina & Northern Ireland
Bosnia – Herzegovina combines all sorts of problems in their effort to find their way to Peace. After going through a long period of troubles, hatred and hostility they managed some time ago to reach an agreement… Have the two communities actually managed to come together? Have they demolished their separation lines and walls? Soma Akriton Youth Organization on behalf of the Youth Network for Youth Development has recruited a group of fifteen young people with good detective skills and a vision to see their homeland reunited and peaceful, to travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina and investigate the existing situation. The group consists of young people aged 14 to 18 years old from both communities. The visit will take place between 2nd July 2010 and Friday 9th July 2010 and the Programme will include the following among others:
• Meetings with the youth of PRONI CENTAR
• An introduction to the Bosnia - Herzegovina
• A tour in the ‘troubles areas’ - escorted by ex fighters both from the Bosnians and the Serbs
• A number of workshops such as ‘Dealing with difference’, ‘Nationalism and religion’
• A visit to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia - Herzegovina
• A tour in the district of Brcko which is the only area not included in the federal states of Bosnia - Herzegovina
At the same time, another group of fifteen young people (ages 14 to 18 years old) from both communities will be travelling to Northern Ireland to examine the current situation there. It seems that in Northern Ireland, the Catholics and the Protestants have found their way to Peace (or not?…), after going through a long period of troubles, hatred and hostility… How did they do that? Have the two communities actually managed to come together? Have they demolished their separation lines and walls? The Northern Irish Organization ‘The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust’ that specializes in peace building will help in answering these questions. The Programme will include:
• Meetings with the youth of The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust
• An introduction to the Northern Irish problem
• A West Belfast tour in Protestant and Catholic areas – the ‘troubles areas’ - escorted by two ex paramilitaries (one IRA, one Unionist)
• A number of workshops such as ‘Dealing with difference’, ‘Dialogue, Learning and Good relations’
• A visit to the Clifton House, which is a museum on the History of the United Irishmen
• A visit to Belfast Catholic and Protestant schools
• An excursion to the Giant’s Causeway, the famous rock formation on the northwest coast of Northern Ireland
For more information on the visits please contact Soma Akriton at
akrites@somaakriton.com.cy .