Photography session

This morning we were going more into the theme of the project and we were learned history of photography and photo cameras. The facilitator showed us the main elements of taking good quality pictures, "shutter speed", "ISO", "aperture". Combining this three main elements you could get a good quality picture. Than our task was to go out and try to change this elements and see in practice what was changing in the picture. With the help of the facilitator and some other experienced participants we were showed this elements in real practice. After this workshop the facilitator told us about the videos, history and main elements to take good quality pictures. And for this workshop we had again the chance to work in small mixed groups and see in practice how does a camera work and how you can get a good quality videos. For the final workshop we were asked to make a 2-3 minutes long news gender video about promoting volunteerism.

Facilitator giving explanation about the elements
of the picture.

 

Taking a look at the photo camera and discovering the
elements of a good quality picture.

Taking pictures while changing the elements
and finding out the results.

Social exclusion

This afternoon we were presented to Social Exclusion, what it is how does it happen and we were given different types of social excluded groups and we had to make a story line with 10 pictures showing a social group being excluded and then to find a way how this group can be social included into society. We had to present them in front to everybody. For some of us it was the first time working with people from different nationality and different culture but in the end of the presentation we discovered that, even why we were coming from different countries we could work as one team and achieve a perfect result. During this work shop we enjoyed a lot and did a really good presentations.

Facilitator leading the workshop about the
Social excluded groups.

 

One of the group presentation.

Volunteerism in my Country.

During this workshop we had to make a presentation of our volunteerism in our countries through a theater show. We were divided into national teams and we were presenting in front of everybody.  The ways of volunteerism, of the participating countries, were different starting from personal initiatives until initiatives token by Government like in Macedonia. On 8 of September Macedonia government buys trees from local farmer and gives them for free to the citizens so they can plant it. In the same time all of the administration workers take a free day from work, high schools, universities student to, and they are included to this initiative taken by the government.

Croatian volunteers volunteering in elder house.

Croatian Volunteer.

Ukrainian volunteers collecting money
for charity.

Lithuanian volunteer giving interview on TV about the ways
of volunteering in Lithuania.

Latvian volunteer helping elder people
in hospitals and in elder houses.

EVS volunteers in Sturga. Making a presentation of their work
as volunteers and presenting the benefits of being a
volunteer.

Employability in my country.

Our first workshop was going to be in national groups and we were going to present the employability in our countries. To finish this task we had 30 minutes. After that we were gathered again in our working room and we were presenting in front of everyone. After we saw all the presentation we noticed that in all of our countries the percentage of youth employability was higher that we were thinking and expecting.

Presentations of different countries for their situation of employability.

Rules of behavior

Since we were going to spent some time together with other people from different countries and different cultures, the facilitators proposed to make some rules.
Here you can see one of the facilitators writing the rules of behavior.
He made some of the most important rules and we were adding more and in the end he asked us, as a sign of agreement with the rules to sign it.