The Association „Towards the girls”
Invites teachers for the workshops on Equality in Education
“How to teach about Women's and Girls Rights at Schools?”
27 September 2008 at 11.00-17.00
at Pracownia Kultury Miejskiej (CityCulture Studio)
in the former Brewery in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz
Equality in Education. How to teach about Women's and Girls Rights at School - a workshop by Anna Wołosik and Ewa Majewska from the "Toward the Girls" association for Teachers and Social Workers.
The mission of the "Toward the girls" association
The "Towards the Girls" association has been found for the purpose of satysfying the needs of all the Girls. We would like the particular Girls problems of arising in the adolescent age to be noticed and understood by adults. We would like to support Girls in their difficult moments and to propose them some knowledge and skills necessary for opposing economic and social inequalities faced by women.
We would also like to work with coeducative groups of young people - school classes, workshop groups and others to give examples of good equality practices, respectful cooperation and peaceful, non-violent ways of conflict solving.
The "Towards the Girls" association was created to:
• inform the public about particular, Girl's problems and needs of adolescent age;
• empower the Girls and give them knowledge and skills needed to built competent life strategies and solutions;
• show to Parents ways of building positive relations with their Daughters;
• promote a vision of Girls Friendly, Equality Based School;
• show the advantages of Girls empowerment;
• unite persons, groups and institutions willing to act in favour of Girls.
the vision of the "Toward the girls" association
We would like each Girl to:
• believe in herself;
• openly say what she thinks and feels;
• be able to fight for her voice to be heard and considered;
• look for challenges, take risk and not to fear mistakes;
• take responsibility for herself and learn to be responsible for others too. We direct our activities to:
• girls;
• teachers;
• feminist/ human rights activists and scholars;
We would like to influence the whole society for the purpose of making the life of girls safer, more succesfull, equal to the life of boys and supported by various groups and in various ways. |
