SOCIETY

Following our vision of an inclusive world, we have created the Inclusive Traditional Games project, in which a team of partner organizations at European level are invited to collect traditional games from their home country and take action in the local community. The aim of the program is to create space and material for intercultural dialogue in local communities, to create initiatives for the integration of different minority groups so that they become more active and use public spaces, as well as to create a network of collaborating organizations and exchange good practices regarding social inclusion, using as a main tool sport and traditional sports games. We aim to strengthen the multicultural community in order to achieve equality, mutual respect, understanding and the fight against racism and discrimination. A quality consequence of the program is the creation of a manual, which includes traditional games originating from the countries where the partner organizations live (Spain, Italy, Serbia and Greece) as well as traditional toys from the minorities living in these countries. 
The textbook will be translated into the languages ​​of all participating countries in order to be a non-formal learning tool for educators who want to integrate traditional games into their curriculum and turn them into a tool to combat racism and the fight for equality and against discrimination.
 

Specifically, the Inclusive Traditional Games program is aimed primarily at people from the local community who are interested in participating in actions against discrimination and racism and want to raise public awareness about this issue, based on a less formal and more experiential way of learning. Throughout the program we have addressed minority communities living in Greece, such as the Albanian, Pakistani and Georgian communities to help us with the collection of games, in traditional and folk clubs in order to help us with the collection of Greek traditional games but also in local organizations such as the Evinikos Basketball Association and the Municipality of Fili with whom we carried out actions and played with their youngest members the games we have collected in the manual. In addition, many of our activities are addressed directly to the local community as they take place in local and public space, such as our visits to Pedion tou Areos, where we gather and play traditional games with children, trying to communicate the message that the importnat thing is not the language we speak but our willingness to play all together. Finally, through the training course we conducted, the project is also addressed to educators, coaches, facilitators and teachers who participated in order to be trained in the use of traditional games as a tool for learning and social inclusion.

In a general context, the program addresses the 3 different target groups to which the organization also addresses:

-Teenagers (13-17 years old)

-Young Adults (18-30 years old)

-Instructors (Adults).
 

January 2021 - December 2022