'Art Against Discrimination' Initiative

The activities in this phase have been focusing on building youngsters skills to picture, explore, define and represent their identities through arts. These activities were oriented to encourage youth to identify a variety of social issues they face in their community, and integrate them in their class works through photographs and short movies.The activities contributed to empower the youth within a dynamic participation in their social environment in a way that fosters critical thinking, research, and creativity, and that aims to provide inspiring models of active young leaders who are trying to create a better community based on peace and acceptance. The most important objective that the project is achieving from the beginning of its first phase is bringing youth from different backgrounds to interact, connect, work together and build sustainable relations which leads to reconciliation among the youth, and on a bigger scale among communities that have been apart for a very long time. Barriers among youngsters are being broken, and new bridges are being built.