Armenian Progressive Youth NGO Info Pack for "Conflict 2 Connection" | Page 2

The Organizers
Armenian Progressive Youth (Armenia)is a nonprofit,non-political youth organization aiming to
support, inspire and engage young people from
Armenia and all over the world to develop their social
leadership skills, to take their civic responsibility and
to act as change-makers. Through different projects,
initiatives and non-formal education tools we help
young people to succeed, ensuring that they develop
the knowledge, skills, attitudes and competencesto
fit to the modern world. We believe that progressive, educated, skilful, open-minded and
engaged young people possess all the power to become actors of change in Armenia and
beyond because youth is not the future but the present!
APY actively advocates and works for gender equality in Armenia and in the whole region. In
21st century’s Armenian women still experience domestic violence which takes a form of
psychological, physical and sexual abuse. This is coupled with widespread gender based
selective abortions. At the same, time in APY we are concerned that the word “gender”
becomes an adjective to describe anything perverted and sinful, anything aimed to
undermine traditional values and families. There is an obvious lack of knowledge especially
amongst youth in this field and one of APY priorities is to fill this gap.

"Sparkles"(Italy)is
founded
by
the
young
professionals in different fields, with an experience of
working in non-formal education field for 7-8 years.
The idea what brought them together was the topic of
this application - peace building, emphatic
communication personal development & conflict
transformation. Each of them have been working in this fields in the past and have quite big
experience of taking part and implementing different kinds of projects on this topic: the
trainings and Youth exchanges in frame of Youth in action program/ Erasmus+, 2 years of
peace building formation at association RondineCittadelladella Pace (www.rondine.org),
Training courses at International Synergy Group (www.oldevechte.nl), all of them have been
conducting short and long term training courses on the topic of the project. All these
expertise and interest brought them to create the informal group and work harder for the
common aim.

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