NEW HORIZONS

NEW HORIZONS is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting social development and cultural preservation for the local territory based in Tusa, province of messina, Italy. Our organization aspires to be the connecting bridge between the rather isolated community to the constantly changing world outside by means of education and training, information service, and international cooperation. It is founded in late 2016 and run by young professionals who are designing, implementing and evaluating local and international projects. New Horizons is member of ANNE, an informal pan-European network of 7 organizations from 7 European countries and, at local level, member of CESV Messina (The Italian Voluntary Service Centre), a large public network providing support services for NGOs. In August 2018, we also joined the Italian Network for the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue (Anna Lindh Foundation) that promotes dialogue among Euro-Mediterranean identities, enhancing their deep understanding, and mutual respect. Our values are education, participation, equality, team work, continuous development, tolerance and self-awareness. Our regular activities are designed to answer to the community’s and young people’s needs and they include: - Youth club with space for free time activities - Juggling club - Human Rights Education - Personal Development sessions and seminars - Arts workshops and training courses - Two large community events per year: "Tusa Slow Festival" during summer and a winter community identity festival which join history, art, music, traditions, gastronomy and nature. Our office is situated in a roomy building provided by the Municipality fo Tusa and the located in the historic center. All the rooms have accessibility for disabled people. As for staff, we have a number of 4 permanent staff and we work with and for young people aged 16-28, residents in Tusa commune or adjacent communities. Yet being a community-based organization, we welcome any volunteering offers and active participation from local people. In Tusa there are few leisure activities for young people or educational programmes offered by NGOs to promote active citizenship or a °think global° mentality. Furthermore, there is an evident the lack of the international dimension in daily life or educational activities due to various reasons (with language barrier as the crucial one). New Horizons is actually the only internationally oriented organization active in the territory. Specifically, our working OBJECTIVES are: * to prepare young people with necessary skills and competences, thus increase their employability; * to make the local territory an attractive place to live, work and thrive; * to develop and implement programs in non-formal education for young people & adults; * to support active citizenship and integration of all people regardless of their social and ethnic backgrounds. ACTIVITIES - Project design and implementation - Research and data collection - Education, training and job orientation - Promotion of arts and culture in the local territory - International Cooperation. The above activities will take place in different formats such as Training Courses, Info Days, workshops, study visits, youth exchanges, workcamps, symposium, forums, and so forth, with local/National/ European partners in different working fields.