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Fairy tales to heal family wounds They came from orphanages, foster families and deprived backgrounds. Twenty eight www.enpi-info.eu teenagers from four different countries gathered in the coastal village of Koblevo, Ukraine, for a ten-day workshop aimed at helping them overcome their uneasiness, teaching them the social skills they need to live and work together, with a strong focus on respect and dialogue, especially between generations. At the end, they staged a play about family relations that they had written and prepared themselves, a fairy tale about a group of old dwarves, victims of a spell that made them unable to open their hearts to younger dwarves. An EU Neighbourhood Info Centre journalist visited the EU-funded Youth Window project and has this report. Text by Zhanna Bezpiatchuk Pictures by AFP © EU Neighbourhood INFO CENTRE

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KOBLEVO (KYIV) – A group of tanned youths are playing volleyball on the beach of N Children prepare for Koblevo, a village in the Mykolaiv region of Ukraine. They are laughing and joking, the presentation. with nothing to suggest that they are any different from the other teenagers playing nearby. “All these young people have some issues. They’ve lived through traumatic experiences in their original families and it’s not easy for them to build trust,” says Klaus Waiditschka, the project coordinator from the German organisation ‘Jugendhilfe und Sozialarbeit’, as he looks on at the teens enjoying their beach volleyball game. In total 28 youngsters aged between 13 and 16 have gathered in Koblevo to attend the ‘Fairy Tales through Life-Time’ Youth Exchange EU Neighbourhood Info Centre programme. The participants come from Azerbaijan, Germany, Po- Feature no. 105 land and Ukraine, with each participating country having sent seven youngsters, accompanied by three group leaders. They originally come from orphanages and deprived or incomplete families and for many of them, this is their first trip abroad.

This is a series of features on projects funded by the EU Regional Programme, prepared by journalists and photographers on the ground or the EU Neighbourhood Info Centre. © 2013 EU Neighbourhood Info Centre


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