WESTERN BALKAN SUMMER CAMP 2022: 22TH - 29TH OF AUGUST

What a powerful and unforgettable week it was for the participants, group leaders, project team, volunteers and Rotary members. It was a week that will be remembered by many for a long time.
In the following paragraphs you will be able to discover what happened during 10 days of August 2022 when 35 youngsters from six different countries - Lithuania, Kosovo, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia - came to the Czech Republic as part of our program Speechless Reconciliation.

The main goal of the program is to help youngsters from homes for children without proper parental care to develop their potential by creating action plans, find their talents and identify their skills with the help of a professional trainers and mentors during the youth exchange based on the selection process that takes place before the youth exchange. This is then combined with the activities that takes place during the youth exchange.
This is followed based on the outcomes of the youth exchange with offerings for youngsters with the opportunities for their personal and professional development through usage of the online platform where our 3rd party partners will be offering possible opportunities, matching the individual needs of the youngsters.

About the Summer Camp​ 22

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Success stories of our participants

Alexandar Vuckovski

It has changed the way I think about a lot of things and the way I see things mostly. In the long term before the camp, I was quitting on my goals most of the time and I was blaming it on others. Right now, I am more proactive, and I take responsibility for my own acts.​

Before the camp I was living from day to day. Now I have a set of goals such as video editing and filming and even though I don’t have all the skills I need now I know that I can learn them with the help of my mentor Andrea whom I met because of the Speechless Reconciliation and who became not just a mentor to me but also a friend.

Aleksandar have been offered the opportunity of internship in the Wenable Solutions after the camp. He proved to be really good and talented in video editing and therefore he has been offered a paid student job at C9 (Belgium).

Anastasija Anastasijevic

When I was on the camp, I was very motivated all the time. People there were kind, always inspiring us and had answer on all question. After camp, on the beginning, I was confused. I didn’t know how and where to start.
How to plan because when I heard more good things, ways, and steps how I can do things, I still had old mindset and after a week the camp was over, I tried to overcome some bad habits. After camp I realized that I desire a good thing in my life. In the camp I got a lot of energy because all mentors were talking about failures and how it is normal to happen. How all people have bad moments in life and that finally I can stop running from my failure.
I’m still putting off making the final plan even though I have it in my head because I’m afraid that maybe I will mess it all up, I can’t hang it in the room, look at it all the time, I’m afraid to talk about it, but now it’s in my head and thanks to the motivation I gained on the camp, I can put it on the paper and into the practice. Before, I would just suppress it.

Anastasija stated that she really likes communication and diplomacy is one of her topics that she is really interested in. Therefore, with the help of her mentor. She got an internship offer in the European Academy of Diplomacy, where she will work as a social media manager.

We are grateful to have so many supporters and partners around the Europe and beyond who are committed to unique social change for young people from homes for youth without proper parental care.

Partners

Sponsors

Individual Sponsors

Aleš Zídek
Yuval Katz
Florian Weymar
David Alonso
Radka Rajská
Jonathan Wootliff
Fernanda Escobar
Mamun Hassan

Sylvia Strube
Ethan Rotschild
Zuri Blandon
Blažena Mačáková
Bart Mels
C9 Colleagues
Ilona Přibylová
Lara DeCorte
Annemie Morbee

Family :
Buydens
Lion
Van As
Daniels
Bieniek
Parman

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