Our week in a video!

Myself, Basia and Sali made this video today. We had from yesterday evening to do this so I'm really proud of us!


Hope you enjoy and hope it tells you a bit about our week :)

 http://youtu.be/nM3TL9_jo0I

Message from the trainers

Hi our names are Ania and Aga and we are trainers during this project! Working with this group is real pleasure and it would be hard to imagine a better group for this project. People with different experience in different areas of social media, sharing with us and working really hard during our sessions is just what each train can dream of.  

To projects is almost ending which makes us  sad because  we will for sure miss energy and synergy of this group, their wonderful ideas and the way they actually in intercultural environment.  Personally (Aga) I was thrilled watching their Social Media CVs and watching their theatre about how social media replaces face-to-face communication. 

Through the Mission Impossible our group succeed the impossible and bonded even, more which made me so happy while seeing their results!(Anna). I love to work flow and will really miss our  “inside agents”.

TEAM CHALLENGE FROM THE UK

Can we get some of the Mediaployment people to do some very short interviews. For this to work they need to answer the following questions:

1. Who they are and where they are from
2. What they have learnt from this project
3. What they will take away from this project
4. Who they would like to work with in the future (say which country and why)

Finally please put a photo of the person being interviewed. Between 5-10 interviews would be great (short and sweet) x

Don't be a bully, be a Unicorn!

Please note the following story contains language some people might find offensive:

 

I remembered this story this morning, it just backs up what I was talking about in my last post about cyber bullying.

A friend if mine wrote it and I find it really inspiring! The Author is Liam Bond;

www.theotherbond.co.uk

I received an anonymous message not so long ago and it read: “This might sound very personal but have you ever had suicidal thoughts/acted on them. Just want to know If I can relate to an idol.”  And I encouraged the person to get in touch with me in hope that I could maybe – considering for some reason they referred to me as an idol – help them out as they were clearly in a dark place. Anyway, today, a kid got in touch and told me his story. How he’s being bullied pretty bad and how nobody’s there to help and he harms himself. It made me feel pretty depressed and then I didn’t know what to say and I get even more depressed when I don’t know what to say; but then I remembered a story. I won’t name names, but this is for the kid who knows who he is. And that’s important, to know who you are.

This is a true story and you may have read it on the old website, but anyway, there was this kid and he was pretty small. It’s pretty hard being small in a big world. And he was kinda nerdy. He was the kind of kid who didn’t have a girl and didn’t have a hope. And in school, for every one nerdy kid, there’s a scumbag bully who wants to make someone’s life a living hell.

Anyway, he got bullied pretty bad for about a year and he told his dad how he couldn’t stand it anymore. How he was being pushed downstairs, how his head was being flushed down the toilet, how they were calling him ugly and spotty and nerdy and how the girls laughed and how the boys laughed louder.

His dad was a crazy army nut. Went to a war of some kind and got pretty fucked up. Sat around his house all day drinking whiskey and sharpening his blades. But he worshipped every word his mad father said.

“Dad, can I take one of your knives to school?” He asked.

“No. Of course you can’t. Just stand up to the bullies and show them you’re not scared.” His father replied.

“But I am scared, Dad. They’re stronger than me and there are too many of them.”

“The finest men are those who don’t need to resort to violence.” His father told him. Despite being an ex soldier who sharpened blades all day.

He took his father’s advice but it didn’t change a thing. He kept getting bullied and he started becoming a bit crazy, to tell the truth.

Anyway, one day he’d had enough. He couldn’t take it anymore. He sat at his father’s table where he sharpens his knives like a madman and he thought it was time to kill or kill himself but didn’t have the balls. He was too scared to hurt others and too scared to hurt himself. He just wanted it to stop. It was at that moment that he heard his father shouting outside the front door. His father was only a little man but he was crazy as fuck. He walked to the front door and opened it – he was pretty scared. His father was screaming pretty loud. He looked outside and his father was in a heated argument with a man who was about twice the size of his dad. He didn’t know what it was about, and he wasn’t about to ask.

“I’LL CUT YOUR FUCKING FACE OFF!!!!” His father screamed at the man twice his size.

“You’re fucking crazy!” The big bastard replied and ran off to his car and drove away.

He didn’t ask his dad what all the fighting was about, but he was impressed that his crazy bastard father had managed to scare away a man who was twice his size.

Bearing that in mind, he woke up for school the next day and he snook into his dad’s bedroom – he didn’t wake him up, he couldn’t wake him up, he was always in a deep, booze-induced coma. He took his dad’s long army coat out of his wardrobe and he put it on. He was only a small kid and it pretty much went all the way down to his shoes. He picked up his father’s boots and put them on too. They were about six sizes too big. He doesn’t know why he put the clothes on, to tell the truth. He still doesn’t. If you ask him now he’ll probably just tell you he felt mad as fuck.

Anyway, he went to school in the long army coat and the big boots and still to this day, hasn’t got a clue why. Everyone stared at him. He was walking through the corridor and the bullies saw him and ran over to him and all flocked around him like vultures.

“HAHA! LOOK AT THE FREAK!” They pointed and they laughed.

They pushed him against the wall and realised that he had no plan of action. He had no idea what he planned to do when he got to school in his dad’s army coat and boots. He thought he was going to cry but he didn’t. To tell the truth, he got a bit crazy.

“WHAT ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE, FREAK!?” One of the bullies asked him.

And he doesn’t know why he said what he said next. And if you ask him today, he’ll say he doesn’t know. He’ll say he was mad as fuck. Anyway, he shouted:

“I’M SUPPOSED TO BE A FUCKING UNICORN!!!!!!!”

He doesn’t know why he said unicorn. Maybe that’s just a sign of madness. Maybe sometimes we get so mad that maybe we think we’re unicorns. I don’t know and neither does he. He’ll tell you that, even if you ask him today.

“I’M A FUCKING UNICORN! DO YOU FUCKING HEAR ME!? I’M A FUCKING UNICORN!!!”

He put the coat over his head and started running around and he doesn’t know why. And he put his arm out of the top of the coat to make it look like a unicorn’s horn. He was absolutely fucking crazy. He was barging into the bullies and random kids in the hall and they were all scared as fuck of him. That’s the thing with us humans: We’re all scared of the unknown. We don’t like the unexpected. We’re scared of it. It’s just the way we are. We’re all fucked in one way or another. We’re all terrified of what we don’t understand.

He was just a small kid. He was spotty and pretty useless. But for that one minute when he was running around the corridor, he was untouchable. He was a unicorn.

Anyway, he unsettled the bullies so much that they were too scared to approach him again in case he went absolutely crazy and maybe killed them or some shit. For the rest of his school life, they thought he was weird as fuck. And funnily enough, he ended up with a pretty hot girlfriend because for some reason, the girls like the weird ones.

That’s the story of the unicorn and it’s a true one. So, kid who messaged me, I hope you realise that self-harm is not the answer and to tell the truth, there is no answer. Just be proud of who you are. Be proud that you’re not one of them.

Don’t be a bully, be a fucking unicorn.

Tags: Bullying

About the Author

Liam Bond is Liam Bond.

Intercultural learning

Now it's already 6 days that we are here together in Rabka talking about social media, pros and cons, exchanging information about how it works in our countries, what we have to take into account etc.

But apart from the program we also have a lot of informal space which for me personally is also very interesting. It gives us the chance to get to know each other and keep talking bout all those topics. But we are also from twelve different countries (two people per country except for Georgia, there's jut one girl), the East and the West, if we want to put it into two categories. Which also implies different languages.

Our official working language is English, but the unofficial one is Russian, since there are many people from Eastern countries whose first or second language is Russian. For me it is very interesting to see how we communicate, and now I refer to non verbally, between each other and how important it is to be sensitive in this way, because it is so easy to misunderstand each other due to different cultural keys.

We actually had an interesting workshop about it: how we can make business with other countries and what is important to know about this culture and their way of communicating. I think the same just applies to us in this group. I am very happy to meet people from some countries that I've never spoken to someone from this place, and now for example I share room with someone from Georgia. Apart from what I've learned about social media I will take home with me also this intercultural learning that for me is very special.

Polish Pub

Sorry for cutting a few people of this I didn't realise!

The Beautiful Sunset Today

Cyber Bullying And The Bully And Victim Mentality

So yesterday Lee and myself were privileged enough to take over the Cyber Bullying session. With us both growing up being raised with the mentality of a martial artist we understand the 'thinkings' of not just an attacker, but of those who let themselves become a victim.

The issue of cyber bullying is becoming a bigger and bigger problem with social media growing, sadly we're seeing more and more suicides from cyber bullying because it's becoming so easy to hide behind a computer. There's no fear of confrontation, and you can remain anonymous making it easy to become an attacker.

The more we can understand and transform fear, the more we can accomplish it. This theory applies to victims of bullying. The first question a victim of harassment might ask themselves is 'why me?'.. My goal is to teach people to understand how peoples minds work and the emotions behind the fronts, because once we understand the other people, we become less intimidated by them.

The Bully Mentality

The first question I asked the class was 'What does and animal do if it's attacked?'.. It defends itself. Defence is a natural instinct in any living being, we are built to survive.

Our main port of call when defending is attacking back, and being the one to 'throw the first punch' as such. When we think of an attacker, we can assume they must be just a bad person to want to inflict pain on another person, whether it be physical or mental. But for a human being to want to create this kind of attack on a weaker human being, they must be feeling attacked to want to defend, and when we look into the background of a bully we will find reasons behind them setting up a defence for themselves. Whether it be they're unhappy at home, they have difficult family relations or maybe they themselves are being bullied and feel that they are not strong enough to defend themselves against their own attacker. Look at the food chain, we go for the weaker animal. Why would we attack something or someone we don't think we can beat?

The Victim Mentality

You can not be a victim unless you let yourself become one. A lot of people do not realise we have this choice in life.

Being bullied can be a huge implication on someone's whole life, not just the months or years the experience it. It can change their whole way of seeing the world, the question is 'why me?' And that question can influence your the rest of your life. It's a huge confidence knock, which can have a knock on effect in the way you live.

However, I repeat, you can NOT be a victim unless you let yourself become one. You give in to being the weaker animal, and this is the same predicament the bully will have been in, but they choose to defend themselves by looking for someone susceptible to attack to make themselves feel better. It's a mind-set.

Bullies and attackers look for the lower food chain. They choose you because they know you will give them that authority they are looking for, the empowerment to help them feel that they are not the lowest species.

The sooner we understand this, the sooner we know the victim should no longer ask the question 'why me?' but the answer 'I know it is not me, it is them that are unhappy.'

This understanding would create an automatic armour around ourselves because we would know why they were choosing us.

A good lesson we learn in martial arts is how a street attacker works. So for example an attacker looking for a woman to rape. A common thought about this is that it's always the girls with the short skirts and low cut tops being the loudest and drawing attention to themselves, this is not true! An attacker will always look for the weaker victim and someone loud and confident may fight back. They want an easy target, so it will always the quietest girl that they think is the least likely to shout for help or fight back.

So this is the concept of the bullying mentality. What makes matters more complex is the ease of cyber bullying. Cyber bullying can be a lot more isolated because it's not going on where other people can see and reach out to help you. And when a victim feels victimised it's extremely hard to be brave enough to ask for help, because you feel the lowest of the chain. You don't feel you have a right.

So when we implicate this understanding to people who might be susceptible to being the sufferer of cyber bullying, they no longer feel so alone and isolated because they understand. It makes it much easier for them to reach out for help, or even reach out for help for the bully.

Another good saying I've heard within my martial arts background is 'fake it until you make it'. In this respect it means that if you don't feel confident in what you've learnt, pretend! Act confident even if inside you might not believe it. If someone attacked you physically in the street and you turned round and shouted at them and acted ready, loud and confident you would completely throw an attacker off guard. The rabbit would turn into a lion. You don't attack a lion.

I really enjoyed being able to share this with people yesterday because I don't think it's an obvious thing to think about when thinking of bullying. It's much easier to call someone a bad person.

Teaching the martial arts was also really fun and I hope people feel a bit safer and confident about themselves!

Remember position number one. We all hold our hands together in front of our face because we are all equal, we bow because we understand and respect each other.

So stand tall and hold your head high. Remember that people don't attack the lion. And even if this feels unnatural to you, just fake it!

First Day in Rabka!

We were really excited today because it was the first day! During the day, we tried to get to know each other. We all discovered our expectations from the project, our experiences in and knowledge about social media. I can say that the integration between the participants was really good and quick. The activities ans workshops made us feel comfortable and thanks to them, we became friends easily.

Furthermore, Polish organisation team presented us the Youth in Action priorities. It was a really very good and useful for us. Thanks to this presentation, we all now know the Youth in Action Programme well and how we can benefit from it. Also, it was very good to listen to the NGOs from the different countries. It helped us to know these NGOs and gave a great opportunity to build relationship with them for future projects.

Everybody was really interested in social media and it was good to gain the most benefit from the project/ Each of us use it for both our personal and professional lives. So, we all have some experiences in this area and thanks to this project, we have found an opportunity to share them with each other.

Apart from working hard, we have also had fun. There are a lot of people from not only Europe, but also from the different parts of the world. It means that there are also a lot of different cultures/ During coffee breaks, we could get to know each other and our cultures. It is really important to build a good dialogue between cultures. Maybe that 's why Polish organisation team has called these coffee breaks as "cultural breaks".

Our Saturday with Mediaployment!

Let's share with you a short resume of what we did yesterday. In the morning we were very glad to meet the special guest Kasha from Krakow, who explained to us manya interesting things about social media, especially the examples of how social media can help to find a job using creative videos.

After a funny game to Romanian music converting us into penguins, we continued presenting the work we've done the day before. In different teams we presented how different professions can create their CV on social media. E.g. using LinkedIn, Europass, videos, etc., and discussing what we could improve.

After lunch we got to know our personal learning style from Anna through a questionnaire.

Then we were divided into different groups again and do a pantomime. We were in the future in 2150 and received two visitors from the past who tried to make us remember why we are on the earth: not just social media interaction is what makes us human. The outcome were four very interesting interpretations of this situation.

After an intense day we started the Polish night which was already explained very well before by Thea!

Thanks for this day from group 3 :-)

Blog on behalf of Lee (blogging about days 1 & 2)

Hi everybody. I'm Lee Price, here with my belated introduction! I've been battling with internet and phone problems keeping me from posting. Now I am here I can't wait to share my experiences with you. 

On Wednesday 23rd, Thea and I flew in from Liverpool, England. The flight was delayed, but when we finally got up into the air I could see that Poland was very beautiful from the sky.

We arrived at Krakow airport and took the train to meet some of the team in the city centre. 

My first impression was that the streets were very clean and there is also some interesting architecture here.

After meeting the team we took a bus together to Rabka. The journey took between one and two hours. By the time we arrived I could see that everyone was already becoming friends. It was dark when we left the bus so I could not see the lovely views, but I could tell that the air was very clean. Matt, one of our trainers explained that many people come to Rabka to help them heal, almost like a spa-town. 

We checked into our rooms, and when everybody arrived we broke the ice with a fun name game. Now I was feeling really comfortable around my new friends, and I was excited to begin the training.

The following day we began by sharing our expectations for the week, our fears, and what we had to contribute to one and other with our knowledge and experience. It was clear that I was in a room filled with enthusiasm. 

Thea and I are here with Momentum so we shared information about their past work and the upcoming training course that will be held in London, January 3rd-11th. See link below

Click here for more info about leadership course

It was so interesting to hear about the other groups and all the good work being done around Europe.

We finished the second day with a cultural fair. We shared food, drink and music from our home. It was a great night and I enjoyed connecting with everyone.

We were already beginning to learn about social media and this was made so much easier by the leadership of the team here and the passion inside the participants. In my next post I will share my Friday and Saturday with you, and more details about the training, so come back soon!

Post on behalf of Nara

Since yesterday the participants have become much closer and the ice has definitely broke, they having fun together and talking more.

The sessions are getting more useful, and much faster because of built relationships, we learnt new things like the polish night which was really useful to learn about polish culture and today we discovered that the soup we ate today was actually polish wedding soup.'

Tagging into Trouble

Ok so our task was to write a story or article about one of the rules for using social media.


Our rule was: Always consider confidentiality when talking about people if you work in a profession with confidentiality laws.


So here is our story! :)

Thea and Nadine

Tagging into Trouble

By Nadine Rutow and Thea Hanson-Orr

Today we saw again how easy it is to make a mistake through social media when working in a profession involving confidentiality contracts. Maria S (23) was a nurse from Tameside Hospital working in the emergency department.

Maria's friend Bob M (25) had an embarrassing accident at a married lady friends house, after beginning to get intimate with her in the front room he heard a key in the front door and panicked. Abandoning his clothes, he tried to make a run for it and on the way managed to trip on a table leg, and break his nose on the arm of a chair on the way down.

During his trip to the emergency department, he saw his friend Maria S on duty, he told her his story and expressed his embarrassment to which she expressed her amusement.

On Bob's arrival home, he visited Facebook to find himself tagged in a status by Maria which read 'I saw Bob at work tonight, he somehow managed break his nose while running away from his new shag's husband! Hahaha!'. 

As Maria should have known, this was in fact a breach of the Confidentiality Act and unfortunately for her she forgot that she was friends with members of the legal department at Tameside Hospital on Facebook, who felt obliged to report her to the General Medical Council for breaching a patients confidentiality through social media.

Maria has now lost her nursing licence and is unable to ever register with the GMC again, making her nursing qualification useless. It just goes to show that you should always be aware of what you are writing on social media websites, what may seem like an innocent story between friends, if seen by the wrong person could lead to huge consequences for your career and life.

The morning after!

Very enjoyable night had for all organised by the polish group. I think we've all washed the smell of fire off us and are fresh and raring to go. (Well to a degree...)

Last night turned into a karaoke competition of boys vs girls! Everyone sounded beautiful.. Although I wouldn't like to listen back! Fun had by all I think and thanks to the polish group for arranging such a memorable night :) 

Polish night!

So it's currently polish night and our polish friends created a wonderful surprise trip to the woods with a camp fire, polish sausages and vodka! 

Just wanted to post a few pictures of the before and maybe we will see the after tomorrow :)

Catfish

Today has been an interesting day, and as you can tell from the time I am posting at.. this evening has been much calmer than last!

I'm going to summarise today because I'm more interested in writing about the movie we just watched.

We started the day by taking on the persona of famous writers and creating their profiles to express how they would  have perceived social media.

After the break we were asked to go and interview the locals about their views on social media and the pros and cons they feel that come with it. It was very interesting to get the opinions from people around here (when we finally found people that spoke english!!). 

We then presented our findings in different forms to the group, some people made videos and other slideshows.. There seemed to be similar answers coming from everyone though:

Pros

• Networking
• Keeping in touch with people easily
• Business promotion
• Belonging to groups

Cons 

• Dangers to more vulnerable people of who they are talking to
• Privacy issues
• Can effect career prospects
• No control over what goes on about you from other people

After that we were put into new groups to create a social media CV for our assigned jobs. My group got a journalist so we created a profile on linked in for a University Leaver looking for journalism work.

We gave him a Masters degree in journalism, added a few skills to signify he was good at what he did and an organised and punctual person and also added photography and videography to show he was self motivated. Then we added him to relevant groups and networks where employers might look for a journalist. Following completing his profile we posted a few things including a photo from a business awards ceremony he was doing an article on, a link to a 'pretend' blog and a link to a student based online magazine to show he was for students gaining work experience outside their courses. I enjoyed this task because I felt like I know what I'm doing from my experience running a business through social media.

 

So, the movie. Catfish.. For those who don't know..Catfish is a 2010 American documentary film, involving a young man, being filmed by his brother and friend, as he builds a romantic relationship with a girl on the social networking.





He becomes infatuated with this girl and establishes an unofficial relationship with her.. Before long cracks begin to show and he eventually discovers that the young girl does not exist but it was actually the girls mother pretending to be someone.

After meeting this woman (Angela) he asks her why she did such a thing and lead someone on as she did.

Angelas response is unfortunately probably the same story of many people around the world as to why they set up fake profiles and establish fake relationships. Angela's real life is not what she dreamt for her self when she was younger, she had a career as a dancer and loved it but fell in love with her now husband (Vince) who had two children from a previous marriage. The two children were severely handicapped and required full time care, and Angela's dreams of a dancer turned into that of a carer when she chose to marry her husband. She felt trapped in a life she didn't want, she loved her husband and children but it wasn't what she dreamed of.

Using Facebook to talk to Nev was never intended to go as far as it did and she never intentionally went out to hurt anyone. It was a release for her, a fantasy world where she could be who she wanted to be and not where she ended up. She became too involved with the fantasy and it soon spiralled out of control with lie on top of lie, as she was telling her husband that Nev was just a customer who bought her artwork. 

Obviously, both parties end up being hurt by this.. But after the film we asked the question.. Who was in the wrong? 

I personally don't think there's a correct answer to this as there's a lot of issues with both Nev and Angela. Nev may be the obvious victim in this, but was he too trusting in the first place? What basis did he have to establish this could be real in the first place? There was nothing on his part to suggest that the family was definitely who they were saying they were apart form Nev throwing all his trust into someone he didn't know.. And the internet is a BIG place with a lot of bad people on it unfortunately. Is it safe to be so trusting?

Angela may also seem like the bad guy at first, as she spun all these lies and ended up hurting people in the process.. But why did she do it? At the end of the day she's a very unhappy woman just searching for something to complete what's missing in her life. Being young when she gave up her career for love she didn't understand the size of her decision.. Taking on not one but TWO disabled sons and devoting your whole life not just to your partner but becoming a full time carer for the very difficult children may sound a lot smaller than you actually realise it is.

So many people in the world have these insecurities, not necessarily a lost career but anything. We're scared of failing, of what people might think of us, of missing out, of not fitting in. Hiding behind a computer can be a very easy way to escape the judgement of the outside world. An easy way to express who we want to be and an easy way to communicate with people you would never usually meet.  No confrontation.

Angela was just searching for what she is missing... And who isn't? Who doesn't want to live the life they love? She may have gone about it in the wrong way but it's so easy not to do it the right way these days with things like social media who are we to judge? People make mistakes and as I said, she never intentionally hurt anybody.

I think the film was a really good portrait of something that is a big issue, but it looked into the cause of why people do things like that!

So overall a really good day :) learnt a lot and it's great to have people who are interested in the subject to talk to about issues like this and learn other perspectives. Sometimes we forget how easy it is to judge a book by it's cover and days like today give us a bit of time to take a step back and think how other people think.

 

Bring on the rest of the week!

Thea

A post on behalf of Ewa and Hishmet!

At first, we want to thank you for your active participation in the amazing intercultural evening!!! You guys were really great! We learnt a lot about 12 different cultures, we tried typical cuisine of  each one of them, we enjoyed the music and dances and the clairvoyant (Mateusz).  We especially admired:  azerbejian, georgian, belarusian dance, armenian and portuguese lullaby, Italian national team supporting songs, belarusian cranberry in sugar, armenian cheese, turkish delights, azerbeijan paxlava, moldovian sheep meat,  armenian apples, catalan cheese, british tea, portuguese chorizo and actually we enjoyed every presentation and we cannot still forget armenian vodka, besides the victims :)

Ewa and Hishmet

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Intercultural evening

A few looking worse for wear this morning after the inter cultural fair! Lots of good food, dancing and alcohol.  I think we can safely say we are all better friends now!

Looking forward to the gossip box later ;)

Mission Impossible

So this morning we were set a challenge.. named Mission Impossible.

The challenge consisted of:

1. A picture of every member of the group had to be drawn
2. 10 autographs were to be collected from locals in the village.
3. We had to find the Santa Claus and creative an interesting pose in front of him.
4. We had to create a representation of 'mediaployment' using ourselves for a photo including the whole group.
5. Find a local to teach us a traditional polish dance.

We DID complete the mission however we may have pushed our 40 minute time limit to extremes..

During our break I spoke to a few participants interested in establishing international links between organisations.. which I am definitely interested in as I'd love to get as many people involved with my guys as possible!

Check them out :)

www.momentumworld.org

And come and tell me about yours!

Introductions

And so it begins! Introductions done and I think we all know each others names after wandering round and pretending to be each other. Few Chinese whispers gone wrong but I think we can safely say everyone was smiling by the end!

The socialising continues in (in my experiences) true project form. Drinking! Work hard, play hard, work harder! Off to a good start and bring on the work tomorrow :)

Thea
Momentum

Hi!

My name's Thea from Manchester, England. I've worked on a few projects before with the Momentum guys and I'm really looking forward to the project and establishing some new connections!

See you all there :)

Thea

Looking forward to the project and beyond

Welcome to the MediaPloyment blog. Over the next few weeks we will be collecting stories from the project. Thea and Lee, the UK participants representing Momentum World, will be posting their own reports, interviews and ideas. Hopefully we will be hearing the voices of many other people here too.

The Momentum World team look forward to sharing ideas and building new partnerships with the other organisations who will be taking part in the MediaPloyment project. Please take a look at our websites www.momentumworld.org and www.2020education.org to get a better idea of our interests and experience.

We would like to encourage participants from other countries to contribute to this blog alongside our own participants (please feel free to write in any language, not only English). Anyone who would like to contribute, please email me: andrew@momentumworld.org

This blog is intended to increase the visibility of the project and the Youth in Action Programme. Spread the word and encourage as many people as possible to follow it...

Best wishes for a successful project!