This project includes 5 three-day training for youth from among the IDPs and is realized by YA with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine. According to the results of monitoring of Kharkiv region there is ca. 182.000 internally displaced persons (IDP) and big part of them are young people who study at different institutions of higher education.
Main topics of the project: how to deal with psychological problems of young people among the IDPs (especially the adaptation of young people at new places, overcoming main stereotypes and solving conflicts, how to resist manipulation); how to find a job in new conditions, how to open own business (methods and success stories): how to defend your rights and influence/cooperate with the (local) government – mechanism and examples.
The session included different activities like trainings, workshops and open space. Project participants identified two main categories of urgent issues in the context of IDP’s life - economic and psychological. Psychological problems:
Economical problems:
Our participants developed proposals to the government aimed at overcoming and solving pressing problems of young people among IDPs. This list contains basic steps which are necessary for the implementation at the national and / or local level.