Imagine:
young people from Belarus, Italy and Turkey coming together for a youth
exchange project and discovering themselves talking in… 7 different languages!
It was a
real discovery process going from 15 till 25 September 2014 in Torino, Italy:
discovery of each other’s languages, cultures, lives and much more.
During 10 days of the project
participants – hearing and deaf young people - shared rooms, discussed life in
their countries and problems young people face, visited National Institute of
Deaf hood – studied, talked and even cooked pizza together with local young
people, and finally, did an amazing flashmob on streets of Torino, signing a
popular Italian song “Come un pittore” in Italian sign language!!
The
project was organized by Association EUfemia (Torin, Italy) with support of EU
“Erasmus plus” program. NGO “Youth Education Center “Fialta” was partner
organization in Belarus.
8 young
Belarusians, who took part in the exchange, said the biggest thing was that this
project helped to get the barrier to communicate to each other, no matter what
language you’re speaking!
See what
some of them say:
“What I
liked a lot was that all people we were talking to, when they did not know the
sign language, they still wanted to understand us, and we managed to speak and
understand each other” (Julia)
“In this
project I heard many stories from hearing and deaf people, and it made me
understand and believe, what ever happens in life, you can do everything – you
can communicate without knowing the same language, there will be people who can
support in hard times. And I decided that in my free time I would love to help
people who need help”(Irina)
“After
this project I want to learn sign language and communicate. It’s like English,
if you know more languages, it makes you able to communicate to more people,
and then the sign language will be used more” (Tatiana)
“For me
the discovery was that there are many sign languages, and even the dialects in
each country” (Andei)
On 19th
November 2014 we invite you to presentation of the project in Fialta, where you
can learn words in sign language, play games, sign a song, and many more!
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