Are you interested to join our next Erasmus+ RESOLVE: Equity Tbilisi Youth Exchange in September? Express you interest by registering https://asfar.org.uk/register-now/ (new participants) or emailing your interest (previous participants) to resolve@asfar.org.uk. More information about the project: https://asfar.org.uk/project/resolve-equity/
This project aims to develop and implement an educational tool among European social makers to increase the positive resolution of conflicts through understanding cultural differences, active listening and negotiation skills. The core activity of the MORE is a training course from 25th October to 2nd November 2021, where 29 participants from 9 countries: Uk, Albania, … Continued
Asfar is continuing with the Woman of the Week campaign in July. Check out every week for a new entry and learn about the achievements of woman that have been often overlooked by history. This week’s #WOTW is Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner! Mary was an African-American inventor who is most notable for inventing the first … Continued
UK young people join us in London for our Erasmus+ RESOLVE: Life after Brexit Workshop. The event will happen from the 8th-10th July and will bring together a number of topics, including: Learning more about RESOLVE Reconciliation and Peacebuilding Informal learning methods that you could use in your own social action The opportunity to meet … Continued
The United Nations has set out a plan of action in order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, as the COVID-19 pandemic has made progress towards these goals more difficult. 2020-2030 is being referred to as the Decade of Action and calls for ‘accelerating sustainable solutions to all the world’s biggest challenges – … Continued
As we observe World Refugee Day today, we recognise the significant challenges faced particularly by refugee women. As part of our LAB4GE project we are calling for less discrimination for those in minority and vulnerable groups, including migrants and refugees. Today, on the World Refugee Day we use this occasion to build empathy and understanding … Continued
Today the 2021 Sustainable Development Report will be launched. The Report points out areas of improvement and allows our global community to come up with an action plan in order to achieve all SDGs by 2030! Published by Cambridge University Press, the report outlines the short-term impacts of COVID-19 on the SDGs and describes how … Continued
Asfar is continuing with the Woman of the Week campaign in June. Check out every week for a new entry and learn about the achievements of woman that have been often overlooked by history. This week’s #WOTW is Gertrude Ederle! Gertrude was a competitive swimmer in a time period when women had little rights & … Continued
During and after the so-called “Summer of Migration” an unprecedented number of refugees entered the European continent, which led to a broad right – wing backlash on societal as well as political levels. This caused the common idea of European solidarity to dwindle and nationalism to thrive, while public attention towards the suffering at European … Continued
Inspirational Stories is a project by Angela Stoddard, an ESC volunteer in Brčko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the project RESOLVE: Volunteer4Peace, working in person with Svitac Bosnia and online with the RESOLVE: Network. Inspirational Stories 1 – Asmir Husić, Roma Activist Asmir Husić is a Roma Activist. He works in the NGO sector to support … Continued
Eating together is a project by Malcolm Lowe, an ESC volunteer in Brcko, Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the project RESOLVE: Volunteer4Peace, working in person with Svitac Bosnia and online with the Resolve: Network. This project is about how food can bring us together, but also how it can divide us. In the coming months, there … Continued
Over the last two weeks, Asfar has organised Continuous Professional Development training for our International Project Officers. During the training, they were able to develop basic facilitation skills to support the delivery of learning, gain team leadership skills for Youth Exchanges and other Mobilities and were introduced to Mentoring and the Mentor-Mentee relationship in supporting … Continued
Asfar’s next Digital Talks: “The Refugee Experience: Humanitarian Migration in the UK” will be a round table with three speakers: Far Mira Gerlach – Operations Manager and Youth Welfare Project Manager at Refugee Rights Europe Sarah M. Hughes – Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow in Human Geography at Northumbria University Aladdin Aljian – Originally from Syria, is currently … Continued
Woman of the Week is BACK! Every Monday we will be celebrating an inspiring women from history, or the present day, particularly highlighting women who have been overlooked and marginalised. Today’s #WOTW is Christina Adane, a 17-year-old Ethiopian activist based in the UK who is working to promote free school meals for children and put … Continued
Last October we started the project Learning Abroad to do Better at home for Gender Equality or simply LAB4GE, a KA2 Strategic partnership project supported by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.Despite the difficulties we faced because of the COVID-19 crisis the partnership still shares the same values: stand for gender equality, and look … Continued
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