European Contact Group on Ecumenical Social Action

ECG is a pan European Ecumencial Network, It is composed of practitioners from churches or faith communities who are engaged in grassroots ecumenical social action.

We come together:

• To learn
• To exchange experiences
• To work together through theological social and ethical reflection and through practical projects.
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ECG membership is open to local practitioners and regional and national church bodies engaged in ecumenical social and economic action:

 

Teams committed to local projects

Co-ordinators of Church ministries in the social field

Leaders of campaigns or actions in the community

Persons interested to join practical reflection

 

 

 

ECG/CABLE  TRAINING PROGRAMME - COMMUNITY ACTION BASED LEARNING IN EUROPE (CABLE)

 

An Invtation to New Ways of Working

 

An International Training Programme for Local Workers

 

Place: Linz, Austria

 

Dates: 21 - 25 November 2011 and 12 -15 March 2012

 

Leader: Tony Addy                                        

 

Are you:

 

• involved in a local project, diaconal organisation, oir a church as a paid worker, volunteer or activist woeking with marginalised groups in a community or workplace?

Do you:

 

• Work directly with people affected by poverty and exclusion, or who face discrimination or other disadvantage in work and everyday life?

Would you like to:

 

• learn how to work more effectively with marginsalised groups and local communities.?
• develop more participation and empowerment of the people you work with?
• get new approaches and new methods for development work?
• lesarn from others in different countries who are doing similar work?

This programme could be for you if you work directly:

 

• youg people who are marginalised through being unemployed or in other ways
• workers in low paid jobs and/or with bad conditions of employment (precarious work)
• people from black, or ethnic minority groups
• migrants, refugees and asylum seekers
• rural and urban communities and neighbourhoods with a high level of poverty and marginalisation

            THIS PROGRAMME IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PAID AND VOLUNTARY WORKERS TO DEVELOP NEW METHODS FOR WORKING WITH MARGINALISED GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES

 

For an application form, and further details of the course contact:

 

Tony Addy                                :  tony.addy@volny.cz or by phone or text  +420 603 276910

 

Applications by 27 May 2011   Travel instructions to successful applicants will be given by the end of June 2011.

 

 

 

’NAOMI’ -A NOTE ON TRAINING:

POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES:  Created as an evaluation of project visits at the ECG Seminar in Bucharest May2011. This tool ’NAOMI’ - Values - Religion - can be found in the handbook produced by the workshop on working with disadvantaged young people. It was used to evaluate visits in the ECG Seminar and the scheme was  was created by by generalising from the participants findings in a participative process.

 

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