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CARE WHAT YOU(TH) WEAR!

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 618797-EPP-1-2020-1-LT-EPPKA2-CBY-ACPALA
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | Capacity Building for youth in ACP countries, Latin America and Asia Funder Contribution: 132,128 EUR

CARE WHAT YOU(TH) WEAR!

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The clothes young people wear every day is an effective way to show how a single item connects them with a wider world. The production line of any item from the extraction of raw materials to production, transportation, consumption and disposal allows them to understand better their personal connections with people from other countries and continents, as well as environment. However, the façade of the production line hides the complexity of global issues. Young people in partner countries lack awareness and understanding of how their personal consumption patterns affect people, environment and contribute to the rise of major global problems as poverty, inequality and climate change. Therefore, this project intends to give an overview of the most concerning impacts caused by the fashion industry in partner countries and provide educational approaches and tools empowering young people to understand the complexity of issues and their personal role as consumers of the garment.The overall aim of the project is to foster the commitment of young people from Europe and Asia to take an active role in meeting global challenges based on awareness and critical understanding of the phenomena of global interconnectedness. By bringing the issues of the global garment industry to young people, the project will foster quality improvements and will contribute to promoting the concept of global youth work. The objectives of the project:1. Raise awareness of young people and youth workers of sustainability issues in the global garment industry;2. Strengthen the role of youth work in dealing with the challenges of sustainable development in the global garment industry;3. Develop, transfer and pilot good practices that would empower young people to take an active role in dealing with the sustainability challenges in the garment industry;4. Bring a global perspective to youth work by fostering cooperation and exchange of knowledge, perceptions and good practices between the partners from Europe and Asia.The project will directly target 118 youth workers and 250 young people by engaging them in a range of activities which will be meant for:- developing the competencies of youth workers in global youth work, specifically, in addressing the issues in the global garment industry in the activities with young people;- providing the possibilities for youth workers to explore the realities in different parts of the global supply chain of the garment industry and understand the global connections that arise through the consumption and production patterns of clothes;- development, piloting and utilising new educational tools and methods addressing global issues in the global consumption and production patterns of textiles and promoting sustainable solutions and the development of sustainable consumption habits of young people. The project will be implemented by partners from 5 countries in Europe and Asia: Lithuania, Italy, Greece, the Philippines and Nepal.

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