YouthBridge ist ein Projekt der Europäischen Janusz Korczak Akademie in dem Jugendliche unterschiedlichster Herkunft, Muttersprache und Religion ein zweijähriges Leadership-Programm absolvieren. Mit dem neu erworbenen Wissen und Können setzen die Jugendlichen eigene soziale, mediale und kulturelle Initiativen um und bauen Brücken zwischen verschiedenen Communities. YouthBridge schafft in München Vielfalt, Kreativität und Miteinander und bekämpft Hass, Ausgrenzung und Radikalisierung.
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Project Reach is an institution, that creates opportunities for youth - and adults who work with them - to incubate new approaches and strategies and to build institutions that address discrimination and injustice and place social control in their own hands.
With very similar goals and approaches to the ones of @youthbridgemunich , we were very thrilled to meet like-minded in such an organization in New York City! 🏙🇺🇸We met Katherine and Anthony in their headquarter in Chinatown and had an open workshop about how we identify ourselves and what the term "identity" means. Together we broke down all the different factors which contribute to the identity of a person and hung them in posters on the wall. Every Youbie then received stickers in different colors, with every color representing a different aspect like e.g. the color "red" standing for "I am insecure about that attribute of my identity". That way everybody could express how they really feel about themselves. Then we had to add the most important color, which was "gold" and stood for "I feel very secure about that in my identity". Then we realized that many of us felt empowered by who they truly are and it should be our goal to make more people feel secure about themselves!🙌🏽
#identity #workshop #community @ Project Reach NYC
Yesterday we attended the "Immigrant Heritage Week" at the Gracie Mansion, hosted by the #nyc mayor Bill de Blasio. After processing the initial shock, that we were minimally underdressed 😂, we began to mingle among the other visitors. Some of us would have appreciated practicing elevator speeches for these events beforehand, whereas others truly showed their hidden talents at networking. The attending guests had various backgrounds and so we learned to know many different characters with interesting backgrounds, giving us all kinds of feedback on various topics like fashion, politics or developing a new concept for a restaurant. Even though there was only a handfull of young attendants at this gathering apart from @youthbridgemunich ,all of us truly felt like equal attendants of this specific event, as we were taken very seriously🙏🏼
#graciemansion #newyork #network #experience @ Gracie Mansion
„Police&Community Working Together“ - that‘s the slogan of the #nypd 🚔🚁.But what exactly does that mean? By showing us around in the incredibly interesting building of the NYC Police Headquarters, Det. Mohamed Amen explained us a lot about the risks& chances of police officers in #nyc🇺🇸 . He and his colleagues, who were really inspiring, but on the other hand funny and super relaxed, accentuated how #diverse the NYPD ,how many profits that has for their work and that all of us belong to the human race and should #respect each other no matter where we are from or what our beliefs are!
All in all an unique opportunity and an amazing meeting!☺
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” - Emma Lazarus🗽
Our trip to the #statueofliberty and #ellisisland was very really fun, beautiful and most of all very meaningful. To learn about the fate of over 12 million brave people, who crossed the sea in the years of 1892 until 1952 to immigrate to the US because they believed in the #americandream and a better future for themselves and their families was truly inspiring. And of course, we enjoyed the view upon #manhattan 🏙 and the #boattrip 🛳😉. @ Statue Of Liberty, Liberty Island, New York City
Eine wunderschöne Synagoge, ein faszinierender baptistischer Gottesdienst und ein chinesisches Viertel voller Leben - und alles an einem Tag! Diese 3 Ziele, die sich wie Highlights unterschiedlicher Reisen anhören, sind in dieser Stadt nur wenige U-Bahn-Stationen voneinander entfernt, was wieder einmal beweist: New York ist ein wilder, begeisternder Mix der Kulturen. Zum Abschluss des Tages gab es sogar noch eine Krönung: ein Sederabend von „The Bridge“. „The Bridge“ ist ein Projekt, das die Nationalitäten und Kulturen in New York zusammenbringt. Jede Gruppe veranstaltet abwechselnd eine große Feier, wo gemeinsam das Leben genossen wird. Dieses Mal beim Sederabend der jüdischen Gemeinde. New York - ein Superlativ der Toleranz! #youthbridgeny #thebridgemcp #community #diversity