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In each of the different countries the YCW is made up of young workers, unemployed youngsters and pupils (of both sexes) and we organize educational actions and activities at local, regional and national levels. Our aim is to improve the situations in which we young people live through ongoing educational action. When we talk about educational action, we are not referring to a series of unconnected activities, but activities decided upon by the young people who carry them out, which are also open to any other young people who are interested. The activities are decided upon through the analysis of a reality, i.e. of the environment in which we live, which brings to light a series of needs in the environment itself and in young people's lives. Once this analysis has taken place, actions are planned and carried out. They are responses to the needs identified and represent alternatives for young people.  As an integral part of each of these actions, steps are taken to bring the problems encountered by young people and the causes behind them to the public eye. Through the activities we then develop, we offer ALTERNATIVES to the existing situation. By proceeding in this way we build up a catalogue of demands of different kinds - demands for meeting places for young people, for infrastructure, for better living conditions in our neighbourhoods, demands to improve the situation for young people, migrants, unemployed people, pupils and students etc.
All these activities and actions are linked together in a relationship of cause and effect. In other words, the individual actions are not one-off activities but part of a long-term action process. |
