Our PMT detected topics relevant to our youth  (Human Rights in general, influence of mass media, civil courage), planned the methods and content of the training and composed a handout
and conducted the training with a group of 30 young volunteers from rural areas.


During the week from August 1rst till August 8th we prepared a program about Human Rights and related subjects for each day in the camp.
First, we wanted to give an overview about the subject. The second day contained a training about civil courage; the third day was about mass media.
The aims of our training were:

Human Rights training
• General information about Human Rights
• To increase the youngster’s awareness of their own rights
• To motivate youngsters to become active in HR issues
• Information about HR in Germany

Civil Courage training
• Transfer of the messages of Human Rights into everyday life
• To sensitise the youngster’s perception for situations with people in need
• To elaborate possible solutions how to aid in these situations (typical for Russia)
• To show them a way how to take action in a non-political way

Mass media training
• To teach them how easily their opinion can be influenced by mass media
• To educate youngsters to think critically/reflect upon information given by mass media

Program of the first day:
• Introduction of the trainers and the organisations, and the project
• Game to get to know each other (“Bingo”)
• Collection of fears and expectations of the participants
• Brainstorming “which Human Rights do you know?”
• Discussion “which Human Right do you think is the most important?”
• Energizer
• Theoretical input: Human rights are inalienable, indivisible and interdependent and universal
• Main game: “Take a step forward”
o Participants experience what it is like to be someone else in their society. The issues addressed include:
 social inequality as a source of discrimination and exclusion,
 empathy and its limits
 inequality concerning possibilities in society
• Energizer
• Theoretical Input: History of Human Rights (generations of Human Rights)
• Game “What is your position?”: the trainer reads out controversial statements. The participants have to find their spot between agreement and disagreement for each statement. Afterwards they point out the reasons why they took their positions.

Program of the second day:
• Information about Human Rights in Germany
• Energizer
• Written discussion about different statements about civil courage
• Theoretical Input: Definition of civil courage; discussion about this definition
• Role play: which are typical situations demanding civil courage in Russia. The group was divided into smaller groups which agreed on a situation that they wanted to present. While presenting the scene, spectators could clap their hands and take one of the actors’ places and continue to play. After each scene, the groups were asked the following questions:
o What was the “civil courage” in this situation
o Why did you intervene?
o Was it difficult to intervene? If so- why?
• Energizer
• Discussion: what prevents people from taking action in situations demanding civil courage? Which were the most essential reasons that influenced, whether people intervened in the situations of the role play or not?

Program of the third day:
• Brainstorming about mass media
• Theoretical input: mass media in democratical and non-democratical societies; chances and threats of mass media
• Energizer
• Game: “When tomorrow comes”:
o The trainer reads out a text about one man who expresses his feelings about missing a very good friend.
o The participants have to write down what they memorized from the text (each person for his/herself).
o Afterwards, texts are being exchanged; the participants notice that different people memorize different details of the text and interpret the given information differently.
o The trainer gives additional information about the missed friend that allow the participants to change their minds/ improve the understanding of the situation.
o Discussion: what happens if you are provided only an extract of information? How can this influence your decision-making? Do you think media always provide you with a sufficient amount of information?
• “Flashlight”-evaluation