There were pilot trainings for rural community members on 2015 11-12th of June, organized by the BF implementing project "Live in Village – be Aware of your Worth".
This training for rural community members is a trial version of the other project activities. Pilot-experimental training course was attended by experts who guided the training to BF employees. These experts participated in the training as supervisors. In the end of the training the experts and BF workers who guided training, discussed the training course and submitted an offers how to organize training and suggested appropriate methods to use to get the best outcome for everyone involved.
Communities training program
On the first day of training lecturers Rima Sitavičienė and Katažina Germanovič talked about discrimination and gender equality, and the next day Paulius Svitojus and Gediminas Svitojus talked about human rights and citizenship theme.At the end of training participants got evaluation forms to express their opinion about training process, the content, the relevance of topics, lecturers work. Overall the participants rated the training well.They indicated that these topics are important and that they don’t have enough information on these topics. Participants also expressed their will to attend other trainings.In response to all comments of supervisors and the participants in September and October will be held five two-days training for rural communities.Five two-days training seminar for representatives of rural communities (from each community 5 persons) will be held to train representatives of rural communities to work with communities members, as well as to recognize violation of human rights, experienced discrimination also to represent their interests and to carry out human rights advocacy. One training seminar will be attended by 15 representatives of the IG group, 1 BF lecturer, seminar-training providers and hired expert who has a good grounding in the relevant subject.(The project is financed by the European Economic Area 2009-2014. Financial Mechanism: NGO Program in Lithuania financed project "Live in Village – be Aware of your Worth", No. EEA-NGOs-K2-DP-24-S08)
