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Contact: retakerome@aim.com
Women & Youth Led Project for
Environment, Art, History Preservation in Rome, Italy
RetakeRome from Graffiti
An initiative headed
by Rebecca Spitzmiller with the support of Giuseppe Garibaldi ONLUS Foundation
that aims to help our young people to improve the knowledge of English and at
the same time to optimize the quality of the environment in our cities,
starting from
The project
Often our young
people have a brilliant academic preparation, and other items essential to
achieve success in the professional world, (including self-confidence,
knowledge of English and experience the world of work). This project promotes the acquisition of such elements,
in particular:
-Improving knowledge of English
-Acquire work experience
-Increase the ability to work in Group
-Increase
self-confidence to face the world of work to which it is increasingly
difficult to access
-Analyse the
environmental issues that plague the capital and provide innovative solutions
to solve it.
Methods and tools
It is considered
appropriate to use teamwork, organized and directed by a group
leader mother-English, which will process a
course of studies and activities aimed at achieving results in both the
vocational training of students both in improving environmental conditions of
our neighborhoods. The goal is to
educate our young people to respect for the environment and at the same time,
favouring the realization construction of concrete experiences and useful for
us and for our community. The
project is aimed at all age groups: primary, secondary, higher and University,
also in adult volunteers can join the group leaders area.
You organise meetings aimed at:
-Discuss – in Italiano! – current environmental concerns, (especially the lack of
decorum urban) possible causes and potential solutions.
-View and comment
on educational films in English that encourage such constructive participation
to urban redevelopment, valuing civil ideals that characterize a good citizen.
-To offer any
type of educational strategy, music pieces, historical pages, reflections on
art and events news, may be useful to us.
-Select small and large projects to
promote and encourage respect for the common good.
-Performing
searches on the Web in order to have suggestions about the implementation of
such projects in other States.
-Working together
– expressing themselves in English – and improve the ability to meet others and
the joint property, optimizing the conditions of our city: starting in the same
schools, and then the streets, churches, and parks.
-Disseminating the project through promotion.
-Learn how to interact with local
institutions in properly.
-Build a network
of networking that can endure and facilitating University
and professional choice.
The idea of
involving young people is given by the belief that: "to build the
world of tomorrow, we must involve young people today."
PROPOSALS
The organizers of the project "RETAKE
It is hoped the
participation of the municipality of Rome and municipal offices; provincial and
regional; and offices concerned ministries of youth; education, universities
and research and the environment, protection of the land and the Sea which can
facilitate the establishment and, where appropriate, the adoption of the draft
as extra-curricular programme for schools.
It is important
to stress that this initiative provides maintenance costs, because it assumes a
voluntary collective action and will offer an annual premium per mile project
carried out by Giuseppe Garibaldi ONLUS.
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