Cesta rozvoje, z.s.

Cesta rozvoje is young non-governmental organization (NGO) found in March 2018, intending to bring innovative approach into the fields of non-formal and intercultural education of youth, active citizenship and personal development. The NGO was established because of the increasing bipolarization and radicalisation of the societies, especially in the wake of current refugee crisis. Our aim is to spread ideas and raise awareness on topics of tolerance, social inclusion, human rights, fight against racism and discrimination, media literacy, but also environment protection and sustainability. We promote the role of young people in society and also the importance of volunteering. We dont provide daily activities for youth, but we are supporting them on individual/group bases where we are helping them to create initiatives and projects on the topics they find important in today´s society or their community. We support the youth to be active citizen and act on actual problems and we believe European Solidarity Corps is one of the ways how to achieve it. Our target group is youth 16-30 years old - students of high schools, universities, unemployed youth, local youth who is visiting Dům děti a mládeže (DDM) Otrokovice, but also youth workers (in this group there is no age limit). We are organizing projects under the programme of Erasmus+, so far we have organized 1 youth exchange "Your own opinion"on the topic of media literacy, because we believe that disinformation and media manipulation is one of the most dangerous threats of our time. On the project 40 young people from 8 different countries met (European Union (EU) and also neighbouring EU) where they spread their horizon about this topic and exchanged their experience and opinions about contemporary problems. It was very succeful to connect young people from countries which are politicaly in conflict (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia) and break the stereotypes which their governments and media spread. We also worked with local community during the street action where we informed local population about hoaxes and how easily fake news spread. We have also organized 1 contact-making seminar (CMS) in Uherské Hradiště on topic of inclusion of NEET youth (Not in Education, Employment, or Training ) and cooperation of youth organisations and youth workers across our country and Europe to strengthen the cooperation and support exchange of good practices. 27 youth workers met on the project and developed activities for NEET youth and further networking. The most recent project we finished is mobility of youth workers - training course "Equal and united" which was aimed at radicalisation of youth and extremism. The project gathered very diverse group (33 youth workers from whole Europe) and together they experienced activities and created tools to actively involve young people in social and civic life in order the prevent their radicalisation. During this project we also got involved with local community during street action. We created performance in the city center of Brno which raised awareness about racism, extremism and discrimination. We will also implement youth exchange in June on same topic where we will implement and try new methods which we created during the training course "Equal and united". Throughout these activities we encouraged several young people to actively create something on these topics and currently we are supporting 2 young guys with their initiative about democratic values which we believe is very important to spread among young people. Another important aspect is that young people become active and create their initiatives to fight against social issues they see around them. We always try to include young people from our region through cooperation with DDM Sluníčko and Tomas Bata university in Zlín.