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THE PROJECT’S PARTNERSBalık Arts in LondonBalık Arts’ mission is to work with children,young people and adults from disadvantagedbackgrounds and provide them with access to artsand culture, which we have been doing since 1999.We are strongly committed to providing enrichingand engaging projects for children, young peopleand adults specifically from Turkish and Kurdishcommunities regardless of whether they are first orsecond generation settlers, and, as an extensionof this, to all people who may come from adisadvantaged background.Balık Arts: www.balikarts.org.ukIntegrationswerk Respekt e.V. in BerlinIntegrationswerk Respekt is a non-profit associationfounded in 2001 by russian-speaking migrants.It works mainly on the field of education andsocio-culture. Respekt teachs, coachs und advisesmigrants and non-migrants in self-empowermentparticularly for social-work-sector. Respekt offersintercultural trainings, Non-violent Communicationworkshops for young people, parents and teachers/educators and also courses for unemployedpersons in intercultural education that arepromoted by the Employment Agency, LocalGovernment or the European Social Fonds.Integrationswerk Respekt e.V.:Fechnerstraße 26, 10717 Berlin AllemagneDatça municipality in TurkeyThe history of the Datça Peninsula goes back to2000 B.C. Hundreds of different societies andcultures ruled and passed from the area, namelyThe Carians, Dorians, Persians, Athenians,Romans, Byzantines, Mentesogullari, OttomanEmpire, have left traces of a world of paradise.The Municipality of Datça supports most visual andmusical arts and also provides adult educationcourses to improve personal skills in the town.Datça Municipality: www.datca.bel.trMission Locale Intercommunale desMureaux in FranceThis French organisation has a public serviceobjective: work for professional and social inclusionof young people (16 to 25 years old), fight againstexclusion, create a link between young people andeconomic or social world. The “Mission Locale” isa body which welcomes, informs and leads youngpeople in order to allow them to get a job and tokeep it. The “Mission Locale” contributes to a betterlife for these youngsters by helping them to faceproblems in their daily life.Mission Locale Intercommunale desMureaux: 38, avenue Paul Raoult, 78130Les Mureaux FranceMaison de l’Europe des Yvelines in FranceThe Maison de l’Europe des Yvelines (MdEY) wascreated in 2001 as a non-profit organisationin order to raise people’s interest in Europeancitizenship. Through the European Youth inAction Program the MdEY has been able to builda wide European network through the last tenyears. MdEY’s main activity on a local basisis to raise awareness on European subjects, topromote European citizenship, to foster Europeanintegration and to promote European values. Onthese subjects the MdEY is working with schools,youth centres, youth councils and institutions foryoungsters with fewer opportunities. Since 2009,the MdEY also hosts an Europe Direct InformationCentre to deliver documentation from the EuropeanCommission. The MdEY also is either initiator orpartner of European projects through programssuch as the Youth in Action, Leonardo, Grundtvigand citizenship program. The MdEY is affiliatedto the national network of French Europe Houses(FFME) and the European network EUNET.Maison de l’Europe des Yvelines:www.maisoneurope78.eu
BACK TO THE ROOTS, EUROPE FOR EVERYBODY! GOOD PRACTICE GUIDEHISTORYIDENTIFICATION OF THE NEEDSWhat about the family status in France,England, Germany and Turkey?Within each country, many changes haveoccurred within society and general overallpoverty has created differing individual lifestyles.The status of the family in England has changedconsiderably since the 1960’s. In the post-warperiod most families were nuclear families, now,particularly amongst working-class families, thereare a diverse range of family units and a largenumber of one parent families. Within some ethnicgroups there are strong family units, and nowyounger people, particularly those from middleclassbackgrounds are veering more towards theestablishment of nuclear families.France from the fifties was quite different fromcontemporary France. After the baby-boom duringthe fifties, changes to the social and benefitsstructure in May 68 and French legislation changedthe divorce laws, women have become moreindependent. Consequently, French society hasbeen transformed: single-parent families, andnuclear families mix in traditional family life witha mixture of sexes and generational separation.Immigrants’ family life has had the same evolution.These breaks inside the family appear to haveweakened French society.Germans perceive families mostly as a lifepartnership that includes children. Despite newtypes of partnership, a majority of 97% stick tothe ideal of a married woman and man withchildren. But there is a rising trend towards singleparent families and small families. The number ofhouseholds with more than three or four membersis declining. Forecasters expect a reduction inpopulation of one quarter by 2030.In cities the number of single parent families isas high as 29%. There are differences betweenage groups. In the age group of 18 to 34, singlehouseholds consist mostly of individuals who canafford this lifestyle. But singles are not alwaysyoung, they are often more mature. There aredifferences between men and women. One reasonfor this is the higher life expectancy of women.Single households are more threatened by poverty.10% receive social benefit and this number isrising. Alongside the classical married couple newkinds of partnerships exist. About a third of familieswith children below the age of 18 belong to thegroup of single parent families (and in Berlin itgrew by 9% with the reunification in 1990), 15%belong to various types of partnership and 53% tothe classical married couple families. Almost 60%of the families have at least one child.In Turkey, during the sixties young generations wereaffected by the world social movements and theywere much politicized until 1980. But two militarycoups in 1971 and especially 1980 which areclosely related with economic crises also createdan autocratic constitution which is still in force.Parliaments have been working on this in order tobe accepted to EU membership since the 1990’s.The situation in 1980 changed working and dailylives in Turkey. This period produced a new younggeneration which is mostly apolitical, unemployedand disorganised. But after the 1990s women andworkers started to get organised and have beenstruggling for their rights and made some smallchanges towards equal rights and democracy.What about the employment situation in thesecountries in 2011?In France, after years of economic growth itwas relatively easy to find jobs (from the fiftiesto 1974), but from the end of the 1970s,unemployment became a normal part of Frenchsociety. Unemployment reached a historic level inFrance at the end of 2012 which has affected thewhole of France.The Ile-de-France region has not escaped, butin the Yvelines Department, the increase is lessnoticeable thanks to the efforts of those who play3
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