The joint project “Back to active life: fighting Covid-19 challenges” of YMCA Ukraine and YMCA Europe “Roots for Peace” is successfully going on! After a series of online training sessions, delivered by the international team of trainers, the project participants started to share gained knowledge and skills in their YMCAs and their communities with very […]
“Before I tell you what the e-bridge is about and why it is so important for me as a young person, let me go back to the beginning of how the story started and how we came up with this project. Back in 2020, when the world got hit by COVID-19 and our lives changed […]
“As our staff worked through the summer months preparing the e-bridge digital platform, we dreamed together about how young people would engage with the platform and how it would open new conversations and hopefully help our communities look forward. There was a new air of optimism in Kosovo as for the first time in the […]
Peace Work Institute is back on Roots central stage! The online hangout organized on November 20th was the first step of what promises to be another remarkable adventure for those that signed up and were selected to be a part of it. To begin with, we had a “sell-out” – 100 % attendance by those […]
Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]
Roots & Next Quarterly #7 is here – a detailed reflection upon the past 3 months (July – September 2021) and anticipation of a busy Winter ahead of us. Already running for over a year, we are excited to also showcase YMCA Europe Generation Next in this newsletter. The highlights of this period were the […]
Since its inception back in 2007, there were more than 40 International events organized within the Roots framework. And being there from the very first steps that project took, I can safely claim that I have been part of at least 30 of them. The recent “Be a Voice, not an Echo” Study Session organized […]
Since its inception in 2012 and with two cohorts (2012-2014, 2014-2019) of participants that passed through it, the Roots Peace Work Institute (PWI) sought to enroll young leaders of different backgrounds from across Europe, young people who were and are a voice and not an echo – eager to learn, to try, to grow… Like […]
There could hardly be a better place and occasion to award YMCA Europe Local Capacities for Peace Award 2021: 38 young participants of “Be a Voice, not an Echo” were there at European Youth Center Budapest to witness Peace Medals go to YMCA in Kosovo and Youth Department – Council of Europe. YMCA Europe Executive […]
After the war, very few youth, social or cultural events can be seen in Artsakh. People seem to be ashamed to smile. Men are ashamed that they are alive, but their compatriots are not. Women are ashamed that their husbands are alive, but their friends’ husbands are not. Mothers are ashamed that they can hug […]
