As promised part 2 of the Project – Presentation. Today I want to introduce you to the team of the Intergenerational Dialogue project. We have a lot of people working in Youth Centers, Schools or also in centers for people with disabilities.
Vita
What is Intergenerational Dialogue for you?
For me this is an opportunity to get to understand the different generations. I really enjoy talking to women of different ages and seeing their point of view. I can see that although we are all from different generations, that actually we have a lot incommon.
What do you do to promote the idea of your project?
For me it is all about bringing the different generations together. I try to work with children as well as with elderly people. I for instance try also to have some cultural exchange in my project. For instance I exchange recipes from different countries. Since I think that global exchange is one of the most important topics for the youngsters of today I want to open the minds of the elder generations to this idea. Maybe then they will understand each other. Understanding always brings people together.
What is your aim?
For me my aim is to have personal development. I want to be able to see what I am good at, if I am as good as I thought and of course to bring people together. But that is obvious, isn’t it?
Kristina
What is Intergenerational Dialogue for you?
For me Intergenerational Dialouge is mainly about experience. Nowadays young people and old ones do not communicate at all. For me it is important to talk to an older generation. I learned so much from my grandparents and I couldn’t imagine not talking to them. So to summ this all up for me Intergenerational Dialogue means exchanging experience.
What do you do to promote the idea of your project?
I work in Youth Centers, where a lot of grandparents or parents wait for their grandchilderen or children. So while they are waiting for the youngsters to finish their activities, I talk to them. We also talk about several topics, but also I try to show them that young people are worth listening to.
What is your aim?
My aim is to to bring the 3 generations together and also to make them accept each other.
Vitor
What is Intergenerational Dialogue for you?
For me Intergenerational Dialouge eand bringing people together. I also work with Babushkas which is baseically enough Intergenerational Dialouge for me. As soon as they start to communicate with me or also other volunteers they see that it is possible to really talk honestly with a younger generation. I take the dialogue part very seriously. It should be an exchange of knowledge.
What do you do to promote the idea of your project?
My work varies a lot. I have speaking clubs in school where I promote the idea of intergenerational exchange. I also want to promote global awarness, this is what i do with the kids mostly. But as I said before I also work with the elderly. There I try to communicate with them.
I also organized a football event, where the different generations played against each other. This is just an example about how I try to bring them together.
What is your aim?
My aim is pretty standard: Being able to end my project, saying that I brought the different generations together.
I hope that you have a better understanding of what we are doing in the Debate Center now.
All the best,
Maggie