Penka Wood

Community development | Education and research

Academy of dialogue

Our aim is to create the Academy of dialogue as a platform to teach youth workers and teachers to use their authority wisely and to support young people in entering the dialogues and expressing their…

Community development | Law, advocacy and policy

Breaking free from instant lottery

Instant Lottery (scratch-cards) has been encouraging excessive gambling due to its association as a rewarding experience, rapid event frequency and short payout. In Portugal scratch-card sales have b…

Community development | Youth participation and empowerment

A catalyst for volunteering

Among the students we will recruit 100 participants and create 10 teams. Each team will participate in a series of 12 meetings improving their competences as local leaders and engaging them in volun…

Human rights | Social inclusion

Future Memories

Facing an increase of the extremist right wing and descrimnation speech in Portugal specially with the Roma communities and in the particular case of Lourinhã, action is needed. This work will be h…

Community development | Environment and sustainability

Together against drought

We created “Living landscape”, a tool for citizens to initiate participatory projects of complex water retention and climate adaptation in rural areas. By teaching people how to map and design change…

Arts and cultural activities | Youth participation and empowerment

DEMOCRACY NEEDS IMAGINATION

We are planning to work on a suburb in the city of Milan through an intervention of social and community theatre with children and adults citizens all together to raise questions about democracy. Bui…

Social inclusion | Youth participation and empowerment

Ubuntu Leaders Academy

The Ubuntu Leaders Academy is an intervention that aims to respond to the social problem of lack of participation and sense of belonging of young people from vulnerable contexts, through the developm…

Community development | Social inclusion

Majlis – seating of change

We propose a series of 7 innovative format events as a centre for social encounters in 7 Slovak cities that will promote multicultural heritage/show current diversity to the general public, especiall…

Community development | Social inclusion

Development through inclusion: dialogue as a tool

This project starts from one specific pain point: the inability to be inclusive and to foster the intergenerational dialogue is an obstacle for local development. For this reason, we aim to foster pu…

04.06.2021

Penka Wood commented: Thank you for your support!
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01.06.2021

Penka Wood commented: Hi, Ani! Thank you very much for your interest in…
on We find your idea exciting. We hope you'll be successful. We'll upvote your idea, of course! If you like our idea please vote for us too! Good luck from ‘’Mediation in the School - the Power of Dialog ...

01.06.2021

Penka Wood commented: Yes, it is. We will try to think of a common proj…
on We find your idea exciting. We hope you'll be successful. We'll vote for your idea, If you like our idea please vote for us too! Good luck from ‘’Mediation in the School - the Power of Dialog’’- Bulg ...

31.05.2021

Penka Wood commented: Thank you for your support!
on Hello, We find your idea exciting. We hope you'll be successful. We'll upvote your idea, of course! If you like our idea please vote for us too! Good luck from ‘’Mediation in the School - the Power o ...

31.05.2021

Penka Wood commented: Thank you for your support!
on We find your idea exciting. We hope you'll be successful. We'll vote for your idea, If you like our idea please vote for us too! Good luck from ‘’Mediation in the School - the Power of Dialog’’- Bulg ...

31.05.2021

Penka Wood commented: Thank you for your support!
on Great idea! You have our support. Good luck.

31.05.2021

Penka Wood commented: Thank you for your support! We are glad to hear t…
on Great idea! You have our support. Good luck.

31.05.2021