2. CALL FOR ACTION!
Team leader: Tina Pogorelčnik
Impacted underprivileged
group of youth:
immigrants,
physically disabled,
adopted children,
orphans
Number of people in the team: 2
Number of youth impacted:
all schollars (age 9/10)
3.
4. We live in a very intollerant environment.
It is not a friendly place for deprivileged youth.
Not every young person has equal options for
personal development, education and social
inclusion.
And we have a perfect idea how to improve
their position in our society.
We are students of Speech and Deaf Therapy
(Tina) and Public Relations (Ana). Our study
courses have combined excellently creating
this project.
We believe our idea is very good and (even
though it has not been put into practice yet)
will help many children to understand the
their deprivileged friends.
5. IDEA
Our idea is to write books for
chilren in which real stories and
experiences will be described.
We want to write it in a special
way: in books the ‘different’
world of deprivileged people will
be described as the ‘ordinary’
one, and the world of
undeprivileged will be something
‘different’. Ilustrations in the
books will be made by
deprivileged children themselves
– we will organise a competition
tenders to choose the best ones.
These books would be of best
efficiency if they would be
included in ‘Bralna značka’
project, and that is what we will
try for.
6. TARGET GROUP
First target group of the project are
children at the age of 9/10,
who will read stories and get to know deprivileged’s
point of view, and the second (even more
important) target group are
ALL DEPRIVILEGED PEOPLE,
because children (and their parents) will eventually
see them as equal members of society.
7. GOAL:
Our project
bases on the idea, that children have
to understand diversity of all people and not to see
it as something bad or even something, that has to
be discriminated. Therefore we want to show them
(through reading books) that we all are, in our special
way, different. Children will stop differentiate
between ‘normal’ and ‘different’ people.
8. This project and all already published presentations
of projects have been an ispiration for us
to start thinking about making our idea come true.
Even though we had our doubts
in the beginning,
we are now fully convinced
that the project can (and will)
be realised and can play an important role in
children’s development and lives in general.
9. Relevancy and efficiency
RELEVANT because it teaches children to be
tollerant.
EFFICIENT because it offers a
long term solution- it ‘raises’
children to be
better adults.
10. BRAND NEW!!
Books with Our project,
similar content have however,
already been published, wants to offer
but their target group these stories to children
were adults or teenagers. at the age of 9/1
with a lot of picture
and colouruful,
interesting
narrating style
(stories told
from diprivileged’s
point of view).
11. LET’S GO GLOBAL!
This project is made to go global!
Our first step is to include books into slovenian
project ‘Bralna značka’.
But that is not all: if books could be properly
translated (and we believe they could), they could
be read by all the children in our target group, no
matter where they are from.
Diversity is an adventage from now on!
12. Tina Pogorelčnik,
Speech and Language Therapy,
Faculty of Education
Ana Gabršček,
Public Relations,
Faculty of Social Sciences
University in Ljubljana
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