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We recall the winter art projects in Krzyżowa

Outside the window - spring, but we recall with sentiment, winter and international art projects in Krzyżowa.

This year's winter projects were attended by over 90 participants, including children and young people from various backgrounds, both internationally and socially. Five-day workshops in Krzyżowa gave children and young people from special schools, orphanages and family foster care centres the opportunity to experience different forms of artistic expression, stimulating cognitive development, the ability to express themselves creatively and discover the world.

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Young people help. Ecological educational toys for Bangladesh from Krzyżowa

What can be created in Krzyżowa during international youth workshops? Among others, ecological educational toys for children from the largest refugee camp in Cox's Bazaar in Bangladesh.

At the end of 2017 Bangladesh had to receive about one million Rohings who were fleeing death from neighboring Myanmar (formerly Burma). 55% of the camp's population are children and it was with their education in mind that the idea was born to make toys for children in Bangladesh together during workshops in Krzyżowa. More about the camp in Cox's Bazaar can be seen in the short film.

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Webinar "WHAT DO YOU #MEME?" - 25.03.2020 (PHOTO)

Date: 25.03.2020 11 O'clock, online

Coronavirus memes are spreading across the online-world right now and some Facebook feeds are filled up. But what are memes? And how can memes be used in educational work at school, in youth work or social media?

We discovered this topic together with the webinar participants.

During the webinar we presented basic observations on this phenomenon. What are the functions of memy? How can we express our opinions through us? We created our own moths, but also discovered what role they can play in the fight against hate speech. For us, it is clear that moths can play a democratic role and support positive messages by countering hate speech.

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Ewa Unger [*20.10.1926, +15.03.2020]

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Dr. Ewa Unger - a person with great achievements in building friendly Polish-German relations, long-term president of the Wroclaw Club of Catholic Intelligentsia. Mrs. Ewa Unger played an extremely important role in the history of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe; she was a co-founder of the Foundation and for many years the President of the Board.

We would like to express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Mrs. Ewa,

The Management Board and the Team of the Krzyżowa Foundation for Mutual Understanding in Europe