2024-02-18

Embrace Inclusion

Erasmus+ youth exchange “Embrace Inclusion” took place in Msida, Malta on 31st March– 8th of April, 2023. The mobility gathered 48 participants, coming from Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Turkiye, Netherlands & Bulgaria. The goal, the main aim was to tackle disablism & increase youngster’s ability to address the needs of the disadvantaged through the positive interactions of people with mixed-abilities.

World Active Youth Of Holland send 8 participants to Malta, including a youngster with a hearing impairment, with his mom as his guide. Marten Jansen was their groupleader that week, to insure a professional guidance during the project.

The main aim of the project is to tackle  disablism and increase younsters’ability to adress the needs of the disadvantaged through the positive interactions of people with mixed abilities.

The following objectives has been set:
- to reduce negative attitudes toward sensory impairments
- to dispel existing stigmas and myths about sensory impairments
- to foster positive social interactions among youth with mixed abilities
- to increase participants empathy
- to improve participants’ personal, social and learning skills, as well as civic competences
- to promote EU values as human rights and equality
- to promote Youth-pass as a tool

This project was carried out by Christian Briffa and Samanta Tumpitė from the non formal youthgroup ‘Creative Youth’. WAYOH became a partner of this organisation, after a positive experience as a participant by Marten in one of their previous projects ‘A Beautiful Mind’ in Kaunus, Lithuania in 2019.

We are happy to announce that more partnerships with Creative Youth are expected to be realized in the near future.