The International Day of Human Rights on the 10th of December was getting closer and, in line with such important recurrence, it was great that Coloured Glasses Austria had the chance to deliver a workshop on human rights to children aged ten. It was good to see that at the...
The weekend between the 27th and 28th October, twenty young people met in the WUK Vienna to hear more about the Coloured Glasses project and how to become a trainer. It was organised by Judith Haidacher, YFU Vienna regional coordinator and Lorenzo Lodigiani, Coloured Glasses trainer from YFU Italy. He...
Between the 04th and 5th of November, 15 volunteers had an amazing training course weekend in Tallinn, Estonia to polish up their facilitation/training skills and learn something new and exciting. It was a weekend full of intense workshops, brainstorming, practice and of course fun. Our amazing trainers were Airika Torn (YFU...
On October 28th and 29th a group of 18 young and enthusiastic people gathered in Vienna, Austria to become facilitators for the YFU Coloured Glasses CGrow project. Throughout the duration of the weekend the group engaged in various activities through which they obtained the basic knowledge for conducting workshops with...
A Coloured Glasses training took place YFU France‘s office in Tours. Eleven participants were welcomed by two CG trainers to become workshop facilitators. The training was organized on 2 Sundays, with one week in between. We wanted these two days to be a pleasant and enriching experience, and reach beyond...
The weekend of the October 13th - 15th, 10 young people from Bavaria and Berlin met in Munich for this year’s Bavarian Colored Glasses Training. In fact a lot of the participants have just come back from their exchange year this summer. What we can say is that it was...
September was the month of our Launch Event at the WUK, one of the most popular cultural centers of Vienna. But that was not enough! In September we also participated at “The International Day of Refugees”, which was organized by UNHCR (the UN Refugee Agency). On the 29th of September we...
A new regional training course has been held in October in Italy. 23 young people from different parts of the country have gathered in Castel Gandolfo, in the province of Rome. They learned to become Facilitators for Coloured Glasses workshops with the brilliant guide of Gaspard from France and Lorenzo...
A Coloured Glasses training took place in Stockholm, Sweden from 14-15th October to train future Coloured Glasses facilitators. Among the participants were experienced YFU volunteers as well as members of other organisations and groups. On Saturday 14th, the trainers introduced the main topics and approaches of Coloured Glasses. After getting to...
I am a part of an organization that is called YFU, where I am a volunteer in Estonia. I am from Hiiumaa, it is an island within the country. At the beginning of October I got an opportunity to explore my own country and at the same time visit different...