YouthInk!

The Association, has, like principal goals: 1. to promote the social and scientific research; 2. to promote innovative methodologies for social integration; 3. to built a multicultural vision against sthereotips; 4. to improve territorial cohesion, with a worldwide vision. YOUTHINK is based in the South of Italy and make activities of cultural mediation in 7 Camp of Accuelluing, for a total of almost 350 migrants came back from Africa and Sout-East Asia. The leading group is composed by 4 woman (systers) and 2 man, with the age between 26 and 39 yers old, with social, artistic and reaserch skills. The staff of Youthink is composed by sociologist, anthopologist, researchers, italian teacher and artists. The activities of cultural mediation are: - Italian teaching language; - Social/anthropological integration; - Psichological support; - Cultural exchange among italian and migrants; - Artistic activities like hip-hop, cinema and direction, fashion desdigning and taylor; - Mapping profession of migrants. The artistic activities has the goals to improve self-esteem of migrants and overcoming of difficulties and traumas, related to the bad trip in the sea and sad life experiences, using tools of "eloboration of lost" and "identity presence", with the support of sociologists, anthropologists and psichologists. The relationship between workers and migrants are based on trust, confidence, improving an help relationship in the direction of responsabilisation and the maximum respect of the migrants. The finality is the social and working integration of youth migrants.