National Training Course of Trainer on Human Rights Education

From the 19. - 23. July IOA worked with a group of 25 Bulgarian teachers, trainers, activist and volunteers in Borovets. With the help of different exersices of non-formal education the trainer Maria Marinova and Cafer Saatchi introduced the participants to the "human rights" field and the work with a young people as well as presented the manuals Compass, Bookmarks, and We CAN! which address topic of combating hate speech and protecting freedom of speech.

One main part of the training was a big meeting with the young people of the youth training. With conversations in pairs we encouraged the adults and youths to inspire and give to each other food for thoughts about future, life and important values to stand up for.

The training was funded by the Council of Europe.