"Despite the prevalence of 15% of youth having one or more disabilities in our general population, hardly any youth is aware how to interact and communicate with their young peers with disabilities. Even the basic principles of barrier free communication are hardly known.Young people with disabilities want people to know more about their feelings, and want to communicate, in order also for their peers to gain a better understanding of disabilities, also in adult life. Disability Matters launch package (UK) stated that 25% of Britons do not feel confident communicating with a child with disabilities.(Young) people with disabilities encounter many different forms of attitudinal barriers that hamper a communication with mutual respect:• Inferiority: Because a person may be impaired in one of life's major functions, some people believe that the individual is a ""second-class citizen."" However, most people with disabilities have “compensating skills”.• Pity: People feel sorry for the person with a disability, which tends to lead to patronising attitudes. People with disabilities generally don't want pity and charity, just equal opportunity and be part of their youth peers community.• Hero worship: Most people with disabilities do not want accolades for performing day-to-day tasks.• Ignorance: People with disabilities are often dismissed as incapable of accomplishing a task without the opportunity to display their skills.• The Spread Effect: People assume that an individual's disability negatively affects other senses, abilities or personality traits, or that the total person is impaired.• Stereotypes: The other side of the spread effect is the positive and negative generalisations people form about disabilities. Aside from diminishing the individual and his or her abilities, such prejudice can set too high or too low a standard for individuals who are merely human.• Backlash: Many people believe individuals with disabilities are given unfair advantages, however they do not get special privileges rather just equal opportunities.• Denial: Many disabilities are ""hidden,"" such as learning disabilities, psychiatric disabilities, epilepsy, arthritis and heart conditions. People tend to believe these are not bona fide disabilities needing “accommodation”.• Fear: Many people are afraid that they will ""do or say the wrong thing"" around someone with a disability. They therefore avert their own discomfort by avoiding the individual with a disability.Making youth aware of these very basic aspects in interaction with a peer with disabilities is a first step in solving the problem, while in a next step barriers need to be broken down by applying proper and accessible interaction/communication methods.These 2 steps are at the core of the project, aiming to impact young people, thus investing in the future, and providing the proper basis for spill over effects into society, and into the working environment.The project wants to help youth communities increase their understanding of disabilities and reduce the fear of approaching or being approached by an individual with disabilities, by applying the peer support model.Target groups- Youth workers and leaders- Student leaders- Student bodies- Youth organisation responsibles- Disability youth organisations responsiblesBeneficiaries- Youth volunteers, youth organisation members- Student bodies/Youth council members- PwD youth organisation members- PwD youth- (Disabled) Students- Youth NGOsThe project will therefore create:- a handbook ""ABC to inclusive communication with my peers with disabilities"": This booklet will address a wide range of disabilities, how it affects communication and how to cope with it to ensure qualitative communication can take place. - inclusive youth volunteering awareness campaign: The awareness campaign will focus on how youth can be prepared to communicate in a polite yet efficient manner with peers who have a disability, with a mutual satisfaction.- mobility events for youth workers: A range of practical workshops will be organised in all partner countries, together with mobilities between partner countries regarding good practices that will be identified via brainstorming sessions among youth from different countries, and in attendance of youth with disabilities.- establish an inclusive communication peer support hub in every partner country to support uptake by target groups and stakeholders, as well as support all participants in mobility events.This set of communication skills for youth is universallly needed (disability knows no borders) and transversal since it is applicable not only to youth environments, but equally to the working environment, as well as family life. After all, people with disabilities should be intrinsically fully part of society (inclusive citizenship).The project consortium brings together 7 partners from 4 countries (Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia and Greece)."

"<< Background >>GIVE Lab- Laboratory against gender-based inequalities and violences in international volunteering<< Objectives >>The aim of the project is to provide youth professionals, learners and young people with tools on the theme of gender, sexist and sexual violence*. These tools will be the result of an innovative and transdisciplinary training course, resulting from the collaboration between the different sectors involved (popular education, social accompaniment, social sciences sector, culture sector).1- Enrich educational resources for the prevention of gender-based, sexist and sexual violence with contributions from different disciplines2- Strengthen the capacities of youth workers who are new to these subjects to create caring spaces for awareness and dialogue 3- Lifting the taboo on gender, sexist and sexual discrimination and offering a place to the question of intimacy as a subject that concerns the Collective4- Promote an innovative pedagogical approach that puts the learner at the center of the learning process and that allows the development of transversal competences of the youth, especially the YWFO<< Implementation >>Seminar (C1) April 2022: We expect the participation of two members from each organization with at least one employee in charge of the follow-up and implementation of the project within the organization. Trainings (C2,3,4,5,6) May 2022: For each of the trainings conducted at the national or bi-national level, we expect 20 participants from the young workers (12 of whom will be YWD) as well as the participation of trainers from the member organizations.Laboratory (C7) January 2023: youth workers from the 10 partner organizations will meet to create their tools within the pedagogical kit<< Results >>R1 - Pedagogical resourcesThe organizations of the consortium will build in April 2022 a seminar to which will be invited specialists in gender, sexist and sexual discrimination issues to update the knowledge of the project partners on these issues. Based on the exchanges that will have taken place, the partners will be able to pool resources in digital form that will be stored on the e-learning platform created by SJ within the framework of the Be The Change strategic partnership, also allowing for a diversity of resource formats (audio, video, interactive media, readings). The idea is to host on this space the first resources created in order to feed the construction of the Youth Workers trainings that will take place in May/June 2022. These resources will be freely accessible to anyone who wants to learn more about gender, sexist and sexual violence. R2 - ""Fighting against gender-based and sexual violence in international volunteering"" educational kitThe Toolkit will be the result of the tool creation lab. It is a toolbox containing- resources to be able to put words (definition work) and better understand what is meant by gender, sexist and sexual violence- pedagogical guides from different approaches (social, artistic, legal) on -how to deal with these issues as a youth worker - how to collect the words of a victim of sexual violence, the points of vigilance, the steps to respect, the behaviors to follow - what behaviors to follow with people who consciously or unconsciously attack, reflections on intervention protocols, apply to the context of hosting and leading young international volunteers and community life...- practical tools adapting the methods of forum theater, dance, podcast, creative writing, educational games, to the context of international volunteeringR3 - Guide for the awareness campaign: this guide aims to empower youth and youth workers to conduct awareness campaigns on gender-based, sexist and sexual violence within their organizations and on their territory"