Wednesday: Organizational facebooking and norm-critics

Day 1: Democracy

 Today was our first real day of training. We started with some ice-breakers, hopes and fears and rules for the week. Then it was time for Åse from www.democracy.se to introduce us to the theme of democracy.

In the evening we watched the documentary Zero Silence http://svtplay.se/v/2516860/k_special/zero_silence
We will have a longer discussion about the situation tomorrow and hopefully many questions will come up.

What’s your motivation for attending the training course?

·         Interest in working more with workers across Europe. Interested in volunteerism and help people to become active citizens.

·         I think this course will be very useful for S. group; volunteerism is one of the group’s interests. Our group participate in many activities related to volunteerism, we would like to enrich our group skills, also the title of the training related to the events and the political situation that Arab world live. And I really need to own the techniques for inspiring youth.

·         Personally I'm always busy local projects, so this is my first experience in which I participate and I hope learn an experience that will enable me to organize a project this dimension

·         I am highly interested in doing some volunteering and want to have theoretical background so that to be properly prepared for it.

·         To develop a partnership with a youth group in Sweden and to learn new skills from your organization.

·         Only motivation for attending the training course is to be known more about the events happened in the Arabic world.

·         Meeting others working with similar issues, finding out more about the MENA group and its activities, sharing the experiences of Mashallah News, finding possible future partners and collaborators, immersing myself more in the revolutions!

·         The interest is to exchange about the best practices about NGO management efficiency. Furthermore, this exchange can allow making contacts for possibly ideas of deployment in other countries.

·         I would like to attend the training course because in our association, we are used to participate to such events and I it has a great impact on its members. In addition, the theme is really interesting, so is the diversity of all participants.

Tour of Stockholm as well

On Friday 9th Sept

One of the trainers of the training

Fanny Davidsson: http://www.fannydavidsson.se/hem