On 14.06 we launched a new project with the graceful name "Gardens at schools as a tool for community education, integration and adaptation."
The project is about establishing gardens, food production, our food habits, as well as recreational, artistic and therapeutic values. We passed the time getting to know each other's students, teachers and parents from the Elementary Schools of Lutomia Dolna, Grodziszcz and Witoszow Dolny, where educational gardens will be created.
Read more: Opening of the project (photo report) - "Gardens by the schools..."
The 28 pupils from the Peppermont Free Secondary School in Berlin and the Aviation Technical School in Wrocław were the first to discover our new exhibition "1939-1945. Years that changed the world" in a workshop.
Based on this scenario, the young people explored the gradual exclusion of the Jewish population in Germany during the Third Reich, learned about Gordon Allport's pyramid of hatred and then thought about examples of discrimination and hatred that they know from their own lives. How can we defend ourselves against it and offer resistance? The young people developed their own videos and comics on this and ended up creating a joint "welcome" bench.
During the week in Krzyżowa (22.-26.4.2024), the young people also got to know each other better through integration and language animation games, playing soccer together, campfire, disco and a movie and games night. On the excursion day, they explored the city of Wrocław in small international groups, with the German participants learning about the city's history from their Polish counterparts. Many thanks for the great exchange!
Read more: What is it like when only certain people are allowed to sit on a bench and others are not?...
As the Polish proverb goes, "April pleats, because it intertwines...". And as it happens in April, the weather was once winter and once summer. The school exchanges between Gryfino-Bersenbrück and Krapkowice-Wissen, which lasted from 15 to 19 April, were similarly "intertwined". The young people from Gryfino and Bersenbrück enjoyed fresh air and outdoor activities while preparing beds and planting in our permaculture garden, and looked at themes of diversity and interculturalism.
Read more: Youth exchanges Gryfino-Bersenbrück and Krapkowice-Wissen
