Active Citizens is a British Council project which encourages intercultural dialogue and global citizenship. The vision of the Active Citizens programme is of a world in which people recognise their potential and exercise their responsibility to engage peaceably and effectively with others. Through dialogue and social participation, Active Citizens can establish positive, sustainable development of communities both locally and globally. “The world is getting more crowded,” says philosopher and cultural theorist, Kwame Anthony Appiah. “Depending on the circumstances, conversations across boundaries can be delightful or just vexing. What they mainly are, though, is inevitable.”
Students from the University of Haifa are trained Active Citizens. They are working within different communities empowering different sectors of society are leading a community action projects with the Broughton Trust in the UK. We have partnered with SparkPro to deliver this programme.
Here are some examples of the projects the group are involved. in.
Vitali Tkachov chose to raise awareness of the speech impairment stuttering by teaming with the Stutterers Association of Israel to produce a play where all the actors have stutters.
Reem Abu Zaid is working in partnership with Almanara (Lighthouse) in order to change the attitude of Arab society towards people with visual disabilities.
Li Aloni has created a group for young volunteers from different organisations who have been relocated to Yokneam to work in schools and old age homes.
Information about the programme in hebrew can be found here.
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