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In October 2000, CCI started working on a new, highly important project called “Human Rights Education”. The goal of the project was to provide deeper education of the children (age 7-14) from different ethnic groups in the area of human rights, more precisely the children's rights and education of teenagers (age 14-18) in the area of the human rights Besides the human rights activity, the children have other three activities: Social skills, English language and computers, which were also focused on human rights subjects. The aim of the project was to enlarge children’s level of knowledge in the area of human rights and generally to decrease the interethnic intolerance among the children of different ethnic origin. This project involved 450 children and about 200 teenagers. They have been given free working materials and free teaching.
The ultimate goal of this program is to raise the awareness of the target group about the human rights issues and to make them to participate more actively in the promotion and protection of human rights, as well as in the prevention from the their violation, so they will become better and more useful citizens in the society they live in.
The educational process included children and teenagers aged between 7 and 18, which means that there were big differences in their maturity, so the final expectations in the realization of the final goal were different.
The education was consisted of the following activities: human rights, social skills, English language and computers for children, and street law, debate, English language, computers, theatre workshop and seminars on different subjects for teenagers.
The project brought advantages in the level of organization and specialization in CCI. It assumed training and seminars for the team and the Executive Board and also distinction between the functions in the organization with developing specific elements for each of them. The benefit of this is much more efficient work.
The institution CORDAID from Netherlands was funded this project and it was realized from October 2000 - December 2001.
Our partner in this project was ACHR-Tirana and it gave us great support and help in the realization of this project. ACHR gave us trainings for human rights as well as directions and help for our institutional development. We have visited this center for few times and we were present in the realization of some of their projects. We got information about potential risk points in the implementation of this kind of projects. The working meetings with our partner were always fruitful and they resulted in concrete projects.
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