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ECUNET brings you the up to date news on the ecumenical youth network and regular updates on the Ecumenical Network for Youth Action programmes and projects.
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March 7, 2004
The 2004 ENYA Programme is now available online. We hope you will join us in one of the seminars! Please not that ENYA has very limited scholarship funds and only for those coming from Eastern and Central Europe.
Staff Developments: We are pleased to announce that Jana Kouklolova has been appointed to the ECPAT Youth Advisory Group for one year. She has also just come from from an excellent seminar in Spain entitled "Youth Information and Modern Media in Work with Disadvantaged Youth", organised by SCAS -Student Computer Art Society .
Bart Danko has been appointed ENYA Youth Initiatives Programme Officer and will take up his post in January, 2004.
Erika Binderova has been appointed as ENYA Children's Home Programme Coordinator. Her 15 month year old son, Patrick has been very helpful in keeping our office tidy and has also been appointed as our Personal Document Shredder.
Membership of ENYA Update: During the months of January and February, we will be instituting our New Membership Policies. We need to consolidate and verify all membership organisations of ENYA, as well as streamline the membership joining process. A new membership fee for organisations and individuals will also be introduced. The success of this adventure will ensure the continued financial resources from several Donor Partner Organisations, that currently support ENYA. We look forward to your cooperation.
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December 1, 2004
The Ecumenical Network for Youth Action would like to congratulation Dr. Rev. Sam Kobia, who has been recently elected as the next General Secretary of the World Council of Churches. We wish you all the best Sam in the often difficult and demanding job andpastoral work you have taken on.
Staff Developments: Zuzka Kolarova, a long term staff person with ENYA, is joining the Co-workers Team at the Camphill Communities - Glencraig, a community of people living and working together with differently abled children and young people in Northern Ireland. Jana Koukolova has returned to ENYA as Programme Devlopment Officer after spending 16 months in Paris France. Bart Danko, has joined the ENYA Roma Youth Initiatives Team as a one of the Roma Programme Coordinators.
The ENYA Team would also like to wish best wishes to all of you who are heading back into another year of your studies.
July 11, 2003
The EURO - MED YOUTH PLATFORM aims at creating a broad network of youth organisations in Europe and the Mediterranean. Our aims are bringing young people from the region together in an environment of tolerance and mutual understanding, facilitating networking between us, assisting in the capacity building of our organisations, increasing our participation, sharing of relevant information, and exchanging good practice.
You are welcome to become part of this huge family. There is no membership fee and applying is simple through our web-site http://www.euromedp.orgOnly by joining you will continue to receive updates and invitations for our events.
You are invited to apply, also through our website (http://www.euromedp.org ), for participation in the official launch in September in Malta.
More info : Giovanni Buttigieg -
Director Euro-Mediterranean Youth Platform
c/o Pixxina Nazzjonali,
Msida, Malta
Tel +356 79701507 - Tel +356 79075290
Fax +356 21336432 - giovanni@euromedp.org
http://www.euromedp.org
ENYA GEARS UP FOR THE SUMMER PROGRAMME
ENYA has five major programmes taking place this summer involving over 124 people. All events are now full with long waiting lists. We look forward to meeting new and old friends and to continue to further the building up of the ecumenical movement.
Also during the summer various teams of authors and computer techies will be working on a new line up of on-line training courses. More information and the registration forms will be available in the first week of October. The e-learning courses we hope will help to bridge the gap between the regions and the lack of finances for travel costs for attending residential events. We look forward to your active particpation!
We are thinking of all of you who are sweating out the exams and wish you all the best.
June 19, 2003
WORLD REFUGEE DAY will take place on June 20 and this year there is a special focus on Refugee Youth - Building the Future. The lives of over 20 million refugee people around the world, are often filled with hopeless misery, unspeakable cruelty and heartless exploitation. Among them are the world’s refugee youth – youngsters whose only crime was to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, and who now find themselves the displaced victims of other people’s wars and conflicts.It is the special plight of these innocents that UNHCR wishes to spotlight, by dedicating World Refugee Day 2003 to Refugee Youth, and thereby open the eyes of a worldwide audience to their needs. We also wish to accentuate the positive by celebrating their many strengths, their huge potential, and their capacity to help themselves and their communities. Our aim is to provide refugee youth with a heightened sense of value and self–worth; to help them gather their strength and courage, spread their wings … and fly! (UNHCR)
ENYA GEARS UP FOR THE SUMMER PROGRAMME
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Also during the summer various teams of authors and computer techies will be working on a new line up of on-line training courses. More information and the registration forms will be available in the first week of October. The e-learning courses we hope will help to bridge the gap between the regions and the lack of finances for travel costs for attending residential events. We look forward to your active particpation!
We are thinking of all of you who are sweating out the exams and wish you all the best.
April 9th, 2003
ROMA NATION DAY yesterday was marked by the lighting of up to a million candles in Romani communities across sixty countries around the globe, a collective-event of growing solidarity and a message of peace in troubled times. ENYA continues to support Roma Communities World wide in their struggle for justice and a world free from racism and discrimination. See below for the seminars being implemented this month with the Churches and related organisations in partnership our Roma partners.CENTRAL EUROPE: CHURCHES CALLED TO FIGHT TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN
Women in Central Europe often suffer from an overall subtle or open brutality against them. They are still discriminated in their work place and in employment conditions. The rate of female unemployment is far higher than that of men. There is a high and growing degree of domestic violence. Further, women are often left as the main providers for their families, and are highly affected by impoverishment and despair. The need to find survival strategies leads to a growing feminisation of migration, and often women fall into the trap of traffickers who force them into prostitution in Western European countries.
Such were the witnesses of about thirty participants from eleven countries, who came together from 2-5 April in Brno, Czech Republic, invited by the Women's Desk of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) to a workshop on the situation of trafficking of women into forced prostitution. The workshop focussed mainly on the Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland and Hungary, and strategized for an ecumenical response among the churches in these countries.
Participants included representatives of CEC member churches (Protestant and Orthodox) and church-related agencies, various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the Roman Catholic organisation Caritas. The Ecumenical Academy of Prague co-organised the event.
The participants called upon the churches to take into serious consideration gender issues in church and society. The biblical message calls for the churches to break the taboos and the culture of silence surrounding the issues of violence against women, sexuality and prostitution. The churches are called to address the problem from a theological perspective, especially from the Christian understanding of human beings, of ethics and the community of women and men.
It was affirmed that cooperation needs to be strengthened among churches and NGOs. Participants welcomed the close cooperation of the Churches' Commission on Migrants in Europe (CCME), Caritas Europe and CEC within the recently established Christians Against Trafficking (CAT) project
(see www.cec-kek.org/English/cq0246.htm )
They also welcomed the plans of the Ecumenical Forum of European Christian Women to organise a hearing on trafficking in women in Europe during the 12th CEC Assembly in Trondheim, Norway, June 25 - July 2, 2003, and to challenge the church delegates gathered in Trondheim to put the project of regional workshops on this issue for the churches high onto the future agenda of CEC.
During the workshop in Brno, the CEC Working Group on Trafficking in Women launched its new workbook for awareness raising, aimed at the practical and spiritual structures of church work and life. The workbook will soon be available through the CEC Women's Desk in Geneva.
March 7, 2003:
Welcome to the New Year! We would like to thank all of you who supported ENYA and participated in our Programmes during the past year. We look forward to meeting you again this year, as well as looking forward to meeting new friends and colleagues.
We have been extremely busy over the past couple of months with our Flood Relief Programmes aimed at assisted those from the flood affected areas here in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and the Orthodox Church in the Czech and Slovak Lands. We have been humbled by the strength and resilience of many who have lost their homes and belongings or experienced severe damage of their homes. In this regard, we would like to express out thanks to ACT International Action by Churches Together and Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe - Diakonisches Werk der EKD e.V. for their assistance, training and grants they have channelled through us for the victims of the floods. ENYA has fund raised over 400,000.00 Euros for the Flood Relief Programmes since September and currently there are 8 full time staff and over 240 volunteers working in the programmes.
ENYA has been a beneficiary of a five - year EZE German government Development Grant organised and channelled through Diakonisches Werk E.K.D. for programmatic work in Eastern and Central Europe. The programme ended at the end of December 2002. We are extrememly grateful to Diakonisches Werk E.K.D. staff who have guided us these past 5 years and enabled so many dreams of people from Eastern and Central Europe in established programmes and projects and programmes to take place. All of the programmes will continue at least for the forseeable future. A full report and reflections of the 5 years will be available in March 2003.
Happy New Year
ENYA Christmas Card and Message
From all of us in the ENYA Secretariat, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and Holiday Season.
December 24, 2002:
Thanks for your support and encouragement this year. We are grateful to all of you who have particpated in our seminars, programmes and campaigns. We have been quite busy over the past couple of months with our programmes including our involvement with families from the flood affected areas. We have been humbled by the strength and resilence of many who have lost their homes and belongings or experienced severe damage of their homes. In this regard we would like to express out thanks to ACT International and Diakonisches Werk Emergency Aid for the grants they have channeled through us for the victims of the floods.
We live in a insane world and time. As another war looms on the horizon, we pray and hope that this madness will be stopped. We commit ourselves to be critical of the info we receive via the various western dominated media and press agencies. Let us together try to get as much information from all sides so that our minds and hearts are open to all of God's people and you do not get sucked into the enemy images and lies and propoganda about people and communities we do not know . We do not need another war and certainly the children, youth women and men of Iraq and other targetted countries do not need our aggressions, killing and need for control of the world's resources for our own profit. (In the new year we will open the ENYAYOUTHCHALLENGES Forum and electronic list for those of you who would be interetsed to dialogue with young people from the targetted and aggressing countries and those of us who stand by doing very little cause we know not what we can do to change the situation.)
In the hope of renewed and vibrant and dynamic postitive ecumenical relations between the Churches and between the Churches and Faith Communities we send you our Christmas card. May God's light guide you this season into the next year.
With very special wishes
Cath
