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Asking for stewards for WCC
The YOUNG WOMEN´S GROUP within the young women´s strategy of the Forum encourages the young women under 30 years old to become stewards in the Central Committee Meeting in Crete 23rd of August- 7th of September on behalf of the FORUM! Please apply in the following address
http://www.oikoumene.org/en/programmes/the-wcc-and-the-ecumenical-movement-in-the-21st-century/youth-in-the-ecumenical-movement/stewards-programme.html
until the 15th of March 2012.
If you are interested in this, please contact me, in order to give you a recommendation letter!
I am looking forward to receiving your reactions young ladies of the Forum!!
Truly yours
Vivie Mavroska
Co- President of EFECW
email:
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Press release
From 13th to 20th of November 2011 a group of 18 youngsters from Moldova spent a week of training and exposure in the Netherlands. EFECW National Moldovan coordinator Asea Raylean and co-president Martina Heinrichs organised this seminar. The aim was to learn how to make a businessplan and how to implement it in Moldova, one of the poorest countries of Europe with very low future perspectives for young people. By creating job opportunities like a Home Bakery, a Xerox Centre, an Apple Orchard, a Consultancy Agency for Young Entrepreneurs, a Greenhouse for Vegetables or Flowers, an Advertising Company, a Social Canteen - these are only some of the business ideas which the youngsters brought up - the group hopes to contribute to a better future in their own country.
The seminar was held in the Dominican Monastery of Huissen, the Netherlands, which is the working place of Martina. The youngsters worked on their businessplan and visited several small enterprises in Nijmegen, Arnhem and Amsterdam to pick up ideas for their business. This week was subsidised by funds from some Dutch congregations of religious sisters and brothers.
It is possible to organise this programme for young people from other Eastern- and Central European countries. If you are interested, please, contact:
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"Women are breaking the walls of exclusion"
National Coordinators Meeting of EFECW
Druskininkai (Lithuania), 21-25 september 2011
The issue of trafficking in human beings is a vast problem with a great number of perspectives and solutions. Many countries of Europe are facing it not only as an academic topic, but, more or less, as an everyday difficulty. In answer to the CEC campaign Against Trafficking in Women which was launched in 1999 EFECW, years ago, responded on European and on National level, to the struggle of those people being trafficked as well as the possible ways of working it out, especially as far as the women's matters are concerned.
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Presentation of Julia Staskauske, Ministry of Interior of Lithuania:
EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP: A ROLE FOR THE CHURCHES?
Conference held in Strasbourg, 5-7 October 2011
The Conference on Education for Democratic Citizenship – a role for the churches? took place from October 5-7 in Strasbourg. Organized by the Church and Society Commission (CSC) of the Conference of European Churches (CEC), the conference brought together members of churches and church organizations, clergy, lay, NGOs and academics, to discuss and debate the role Churches should play in the field of education for democratic citizenship. It was attended by 27 people coming from 13 countries.
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Consultation of Church & Society Staff of European Churches
CEC Europe Secretaries, Strasbourg, 11 – 13 October 2011
“The implementation of Religious Freedom in Europe and in other parts of the World“
This consultation is a reality check of key issues relating to the C&S agenda. It is held for the 8th time and takes place every year, except 2010 due to financial problems. About 30 men and women from 20 countries are present, representing their national church or a European network. Among them there was also staff of C&S from Brussels and Strasbourg as well as some members of the C&S executive committee.
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The Ecology Summer School of EFECW at the Kirchentag in Dresden
The German branch of EFECW had been invited by the women’s centre of the Kirchentag to offer a workshop “With our heart near creation – women from east and west stand up for climate protection”.
Report of the Ecology Summer School:
Message from the EFECW seminar “Creation and Ecology”,
4-8 May 2011, St.Petersburg (Russian Federation)
The Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women (EFECW) is an ecumenical body where women from 29 European countries come together, sharing experiences and ideas, develop new ways of thinking, aiming to establish a church of justice and of shared responsibility between women and men, young and old. The Forum brings together women from East and West, North and South, from Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant denominations, enabling them to gain confidence and raise their voice in the churches and in the world. Despite theological and cultural differences, there is a strong commitment to build bridges of mutual understanding between women in different parts of Europe.
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JACQUELINE STUYT PROJECTS 2011In 2009 we received a legacy of over € 220.000,- from former CC-member Jacqueline Stuyt.
The legacy is earmarked for special projects of National Forums in Europe for the duration of 10 years.
Applications awarded for 2011:
- Croatia: Capacity Building in a project to open a care center for elderly people.
- European Project for Interreligious Learning: module III of an educational project for Christian and Muslim Women.
- Romamia: Capacity training of young women in Romania from different cultural and denominational backgrounds.
- Cyprus: Training of young women to work with children and teenagers in church.
- Greece: Capacity building for migrant women in Greece.
- Germany: Workshop on the Kirchentag in Dresden.
More about the awarded projects for 2011:
