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„THROUGH THEIR EYES, THROUGH OURS. RAISING PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS FACED BY WOMEN FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES IN THE EU EASTERN NEIGHBOURHOOD, BALKANS AND CENTRAL ASIA."

The project Through Their Eyes, Through Ours. Raising public awareness about development problems faced by women from developing countries in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Balkans and Central Asia is a three year project (march 2008 – march 2011) implemented by KARAT with partners from Belgium (WIDE), Georgia (Gender Media Caucasus Association), Germany (WOMNET), Macedonia (Permaculture and Peacebuilding Centre PPC Shtip) and Slovakia (Center for Communication and Development). The goal of the project is to raise public awareness in the EU, and particularly in New Member States (NMS) from Central and Eastern Europe about the development problems faced by women in the developing neighbouring countries of Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Balkans. The project has been produced with the assistance of the European Union.

 KARAT is a lead organization therefore the project is directly related to the gender and development program of the Coalition. KARAT is ensuring that the project will not only meet the goal mentioned above but will also strengthen the links between gender focused organization (including KARAT members) from NMS states and other Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) countries. This will be achieved through producing and presenting information in the form of an art exhibition and awareness raising materials addressing socio- economic problems faced by women from Albania, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. The objective of the awareness raising materials is to undermine the existing stereotypes associated with socio- economic problems experienced by women from the above countries, and to mobilise public support in the EU for gender-sensitive strategies and policies for development.

Photography exhibition

The first exhibition of photographs “Through Their Eyes” combined with the selection of winners of 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize was held in Warsaw on 23rd of January 2009. In 2009 the exhibition will be also held in Slovakia and Germany and in 2010 it will be shown in Brussels.

If you are interested in having the exhibition shown in organisation/institution/firm etc or at any event organised by your organisation/institution/firm we are more than happy to cooperate. With regards to this issue write to Marta Gontarska (marta.gontarska@karat.org.pl). For more information about the project activities see the web site of Karat Coalition: www.karat.org

I’M NOT A PLASTIC BAG!

And of March 2008, PPC Shtip initiated pilot action for replacement of the plastic bags in the supermarkets in municipality Shtip.

The action was part of the building public-private partnership through support of the action from the supermarkets: Zendolino-Komerc, Makpromet, Kit-Go and Tineks and municipality Shtip.

The action was part of the ecology programme of municipality Shtip that have been realizing every year in partnership with NGOs.

The distribution of paper bags instead of plastic bags was conducted on 22^nd of April 2008 in the supermarkets.

The survey held on the same day in the supermarkets proved the support of 94.8% citizens for clean environment, readiness of 88.9% to join ecology actions and promotion of use of paper bags. 75.1% of the citizens were ready to do plastic selection in their households.

The action was broadcast on local television Iris. 

ЗЕЛЕНО, GREEN, BLERSHËM, GRUNE, VERTE…LETS EVERYONE CONTRIBUTE TO GREEN EUROPE

The project was implemented during 2008 with financial contribution of the Ministry for environment and spatial planning of Republic of Macedonia.

The project contributed to new knowledge and better understanding of environment protection of 40 pupils from the four primary schools in Shtip through conducting workshops, introduction of the best practice of EU member states and publishing strip brochure through participatory approach in period of eight months.

Achieved results: created working group consisted of pedagogies, biology teachers and expert for environment; prepared content for trainings for pupils; increased knowledge of 40 pupils in Shtip; conducted 4 workshops on the topic healthy environment; conducted 4 creative workshops for preparation of strip brochure; realized quiz at the local television Iris; created tools for multiplying the project aims and activities in other municipalities; prepared and distributed 1000 copies of the strip brochures in schools; raised awareness of 40 pupils about the healthy environment.

The project is part of the Action Plan for waste management of municipality Shtip initiated by PPC Shtip and adopted by the municipality.

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