Miriam:
Changing the World Together
TEUTA E RE
2004 Exchange
between women working with women
Application
form
Useful to Albanian Women have worked since 1993, developing projects to enhance the
lives of women in
Part
of the Lydia Project mission is to
empower women to develop projects meeting the needs of excluded people, to
share experience and to work across cultural and historical boundaries.
Please
describe your NGO or community work & describe how you might contribute and
benefit from an exchange.
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I am involved
in a project / organisation / NGO / church / community programme.
Project
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When work
began
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I am
particularly interested in meeting other women working with:
women helping women
projects-
(for example:craft projects,
womens health projects, womens training for new work,
womens social participation, womens democratic & political
development, credit unions, etc.) Please describe what would
interest you
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I would like
to learn from Useful to Albanian Woman and other participants:
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I would like
to contribute to the programme my experience or knowledge of
(including cultural, musical,
historical & other contributions
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I need to gain
further knowledge, skills or experience of:
I plan to work
in the future with:
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Priority will
be given to those who are able to stay the full programme
REQUEST FOR
TRAVEL GRANT (full or partial):
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My health & accident insurance will cost
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organisation can contribute
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for my travel.
(Anything you
can contribute for local travel will help.)
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Return
application to: Janina Galkauskaite PLEASE SEND BY
Tvereciaus 5-2,
e-mail:
janinagalk@takas.lt Fax + 370 5
2123792
OR
Fiona Williams Hulbert,
Eric Liddell Centre,
e-mail: lydiaproject@fish.co.uk Fax +44.131.446 3348
Address of Exchange:
Useful to
Albanian Woman, Rr.
Naim Frasheri, No. 8,
e-mail: uaw@icc-al.org Tel./Fax. +355 42 23001
A Lydia
Project programme of exchanges and peer learning over 3 years, 2004 - 2006
for women setting
up and running new community projects in Central & East Europe
· The first exchange of a 3-year Lydia Project programme of
peer learning, hosted by Useful to Albanian Women.
· Empowering women engaged in new social actions and community
projects to gain an international perspective on solving major problems.
· Mutual inspiration and peer learning help to identify some
of the best approaches and solutions for tackling womens issues.
· Exchanges/study-visits offer the opportunity to learn how
work has developed over 10 years, and to analyse what women need to improve
their projects and strengthen their work.
The venue is in Tirana with visits to Albanian projects,
the hosts and resource persons with wide experience of
establishing projects
are the Useful to Albanian Women team.
TEUTA E RE
Teuta was an early Ilyrian queen of the Albanians. Teuta is alive is the name of the special
womens club in Tirana, established by Useful to Albanian Women,
where members and
many others can come for a delicious coffee and chat, where
activities are organised.
From the UAW office in the same building many projects are
set up and run for the whole of
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Useful to Albanian Woman, Rr. Naim Frasheri, No. 8,
e-mail: uaw@icc-al.org Tel./Fax. +355 42 23001
Programme outline 23-29 May, 2004
Sat. 23 May Arrivals, welcome and informal supper
together. Introductory
pack & diaries.
Sun. 24 Breakfast at Lugano B&B, near Teuta
e Re, where the days meeting takes place.
Session on
An Introduction to the story of Useful to Albanian Women
from the first project, how it began to blossom into a
national organisation.
Coffee, Buzz groups & discussion
Lunch
Session on
From crumbs to a wonderful cake further stories of specific projects
(crafts, dental & medical & psycho-social support,
legal advice, a club, employment help,
computer training, training young people, preventing
trafficking) responses & discussion.
Supper Cultural
evening: (music, theatre, Albanian performers, folk music?)
Mon.25 Breakfast at Lugano.
Session on
UAW work in the northern
Coffee Discussion,
questions, sharing similar work.
Lunch Early,
at
Visits in
- mothers meeting at Little Dolphins
and a
short puppet show by children living in illegal immigrant homes.
- Orthodox monastery
Shem Vlasti (St. Wenceslas) (visit if time)
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Evening: sharing - a festival of participants stories.
Tue.26 Breakfast at Lugano B&B.
Visit to the
Advocacy Centre a sister organisation linked to UAW
Coffee Session
on the story of the Teuta e Re club, members, activities, organisation,
advice, consultations, funding, and changes of staff as needs change.
Lunch Free time IN tIRANA (supper in town) (old mosque, historical museum, national
gallery, Dejti mountains, shopping,
Wed. 27 Breakfast early because buses
leave for Elbasan at
Visit to
projects in Elbasan - coffee & visit to One Dream More project
training young women
and men courses, successes, follow-up etc.
Discussion
with social workers about their teaching about: alcohol, drugs, HIV etc. (Encouraging
young people to be skilled, not trafficked? In Elbasan 92% are unemployed.)
Lunch and
visit to Moppets lunch club for 110 children: meet social workers & some
mothers.
Coffee
Supper
Thur. 28 Breakfast
in Lugano B&B
Visit
to YWCA centre near Teuta e Re: projects with HIV, children, womens library,
trafficking (information about OIM centre for
trafficked women in Tirana).
Coffee Sessions: a)
UAW finances: funding, difficulties, EC grants, small grants, partners,
etc. Club earnings, balance with
non-profit, co-ordinating donors to benefit all involved.
b) The impact of visits to UAW projects and
others, sharing in pairs.
Visual and
written impressions (notes in participants diaries), weaving them together.
Lunch
Session
on Good Practice: the inspiring stories and experiences which would help other
women, which ones would participants include in a future Handbook?
Coffee Session to help decide the Report of this
first exchange: what would the group emphasise?
Evaluations.
Supper
and Party: farewell to friends of Useful to Albanian Women and one another.
Friday 29 May
2004 Departures
·
Lunches
provided by Ferilasses vocational training centres catering trainees, one of
UAW projects.
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Continuous
comparison and sharing will be included during visits and sessions on projects
and issues.
Contacts:: Lydia Project, 15
Morningside Rd, Edinburgh EH10 4DP, UK, Tel.+44 131 447 8077, Fx.+44.131.446
3348, eml:lydiaproject@fish.co.uk &
Useful to Albanian Women,
Rr. Naim Frasheri, No. 8, Tirana,
Albania, e-mail: uaw@icc-al.org Tel./Fax. +355 42 23001