European Rural Youth Summer Camp 2010: “Let’s give a better image to our European villages!” Stronie (POLAND)

This year the Annual Summer camp of MIJAR Europe on the topic of “How can we give a better image to our rural village?” was hosted by EiR Poland from the 16^th to the 22^nd of August and brought together youngsters from six different European countries.

During one week-long the participants from our member movements from Belgium (KLJ), Bulgaria (YMDRAB), France (MRJC), Germany (KLJB), Poland (EiR) , Netherlands (Plattelandsjongeren.nl) and Portugal (JARC)  had the pleasure and the opportunity to talk with special guests, as the Stronie Mayor and a polish candidate to the European Elections in 2009 (Mr. Stanyslaw Longawa), to present the realities of “Rural life in our European villages”, to work in three creative workshops – “Photography”, “Collage” and “Diorama”, to improve their knowledge about Europe and their rights as European citizens, youth migration, sustainable development, biodiversity and climate change.
Field-visits, sports, games and thematic evenings also contributed to make this week a wonderful and fruitful intercultural exchange of realities, thoughts, opinions and ideas for future projects.
We make a very positive balance of this project which, we think, exceeded both preparation team and participants’ expectations!
As a result of this Summer Camp a Solutions Folder will be published, containing the main conclusions (solutions) the participants found together to “give better image to our European villages”.

Have a look on our Facebook page where you can find a small resume of each day and many photos of this event. More details will be found on next information spreading issues of MIJARC Europe.

^{This European exchange has been organized by MIJARC Europe in cooperation with
EiR Poland and supported by the European programme "Youth in Action".}