The Youth Exchange “Empowered by Nature”  brought together 20 youngsters age 18-30, 5 per partner organisation. European and Latin American groups were half composed of youth with visual impairment or motorial disabilities. Each country group also had a group leader age 18+, so the total number of participants is 24.

Date and Place: February 14-21, 2022 Peru (travel days not included).

Methodology: Non-Formal Education (NFE).

The Youth Exchange in Peru tested through NFE learning the methods and techniques designed in the Seminar and Training Course on a total of 20 youngsters, with and without disabilities, aged 18-30, from Europe and Latin America. The group leader of each youth delegation was an experienced youth/social worker from the partner organisations.

For the target group of youth participating in the Youth Exchange, the  aims were the following:

• Developing skills that contribute to active citizenship and participation in their local communities;
• Increasing ability of critical thinking, open-mindedness by broadening their perspectives toward opportunities;
• Raising awareness of inclusion and non-discrimination through video, photo and digital skills;
• Increasing mental flexibility in order to generate positive attitudes and behaviors;
• Developing self-regulatory skills of motivating themselves and showing determination towards discovering and designing their life purpose;
• Motivating participants by inviting inspiring entrepreneurs who are already working and employing disabled and fewer opportunity youth;
• Raising self-awareness of own talents, skills, past achievements and successes;
• Learning to learn towards growing skills that can lead to their life purpose;
• Developing competences of dealing with judgement, obstacles, mistakes, coming from others or themselves;
• Improving their health and mental well-being through sharing methods and techniques that support in cultivating new habits, attitudes and behaviors;
• Developing tools and peer support groups for sustainable learning transfer from the YE to daily life activity.

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