IFM Newsletter - Summer 2010


Read about IFM-SEI's and it's members activities from the last few months.

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Sri Lanka: Project Report 2009-2010




Check out the project report 2009-2010 with a lot of wonderful pictures from the Manawalanka Foundation in Sri Lanka

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May Day celebrated with child labourers in Pakistan




APFUTU marked May Day with the support of UNICEP UK this year. In order to raise awareness of the prevailance of child labour and also to support the basic needs of children, they brought together child labourers from the local region and provided them with gifts including clothes and food.



IFM-SEI Congress 2010
IFM-SEI Presidium
  
Hosted by Pionýr in Prague the IFM-SEI Congress adopted an ambitious work-plan for 2010-2013 with seven priority work-areas; Communication, Inclusion, Volunteering, Children's Rights, Education and Action for Social Change, MDGs and International partnership and solidarity. 
We also welcomed nine new full member organisations and elected a new presidium. Tim Scholz and Tamsin Pearce were re-elected as IFM-SEI President and Secretary General, Jiří Let, Birute Sabatauskaite, Edan Kaushauni, Ali Hylel, Ana-Maria Almario, Marcela Carreno, Djibril Faye and Sri Eni Purnamawati were elected to be Vice President. Günther Leeb and Kaisu Kotininta were elected as the IFM-SEI Control Commission. 

Child labour - awareness seminar in Pakistan

  IFM-SEI partner organisation the 'All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions' (APFUTU) is very active in combating child labour. The 23rd of March, APFUTU has organised a workshop on awareness about child labour and the society's responsibility towards this issue. Hundreds of child labourers together with their parents participated in the workshop.
 
 Peers without Frontiers
Peers without frontiers team
IFM-SEI's new global project 'Peers without Frontiers' is coming into action. 36 young people from 17 organisations will meet each other in May in Mumbai to develop peer education activities on youth involvement for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. After a first implementation phase they will come back together in July in Vienna to share their experiences and develop different peer education tools. The group will also join the Train for Change camp to try out the tools and train new peer educators.
In March the international co-ordination team has met in Brussels to plan the seminars and support mechanisms for the peer educators. You will soon be able to hear and read more about Peers without Frontiers on a new project website.



All Together Website online
  Check out our new website on inclusion in youth organisations! You will find a lot of interesting ideas, tools, methods, tips and tricks for your inclusion work. Feel free to add all your ideas and good examples of social inclusion in your organisation. With your contribution the website will be a dynamic and useful database for local group leaders.
You can also download the All Together handbook from the site.
     
Our new handbook on inclusion is now available!
  After a lot of hard work over the last few months, we have finished the IFM handbook ‘All Together - Making inclusion happen’. Inside you can find everything you need to be more inclusive in your organisation. The Handbook brings together the results of the first two years working on this important topic, it contains advice about starting inclusion work, an analysis of the barriers to inclusion and best-practice examples of inclusion work undertaken by falcon organisations. We hope that the handbook will inspire and support you to fulfil our principle of being inclusive of all children and young people in our communities. The handbook is available from the IFM office, just send us an email if you want to order one!
 
     
Jump on the 'train for change'
 
   Check out the new website for the IFM camp 'Train for Change' 2010 in Austria and Czech Republic! You will find all the information you need for the camp!  Here  you will find out more!
     
First shared annual conference of Hashomer Hatzair and Ajyal
  A few weeks ago, our member organisations, the Israeli Hashomer Hatzair and the Arabic-Israeli Ajyal had their first joined annual meeting on co-existence and racism.
Around 1200 members age 15 and 21 participated in the conference and discussed issues such as the Arab-Jewish encounter in Israel, the increasing racism and the role of Hashomer Hatzair and Ajyal.





     
Sexual exploitation of children
    Find here the new  study report on sexual exploitation of children in Pakistan's transport industry. The report is based on a study made by IFM-SEI's member organisation  APFUTU (All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions) and reveals some sad and shocking facts.