Promoting active citizenship

"This workshop aims to people feel empowered to engage peacefully and effectively with others in the sustainable development of their communities. The workshop will help to cultivate trust, understanding and sustainable development through connecting people across cultures and sectors while building their knowledge, attitudes and skills to create fairer and more resilient societies. Through workshops participants improve their awareness and skills and become Active Citizens; that is, learners who are aware and reflective of themselves and the local and global systems they are part of, and aware of how their decisions and actions affect others and how decisions and actions of others affect them. They are actors who are contributors to their societies and cultures. They are players not spectators, taking positive social action for the benefit of their wider communities. They are i