The main aim of the study session was to identify the ways how human rights education can contribute to social cohesion and young people’s well-being. It helped to identify and analyse the current challenges to social cohesion, such as unemployment, health problems, lack of equality, to learn how social and economic rights can be tackled by human rights education, to reflect on the concept of quality of life, to identify and build partnerships and develop co-operation between different stake-holders needed to address the challenges to social cohesion and to develop educational strategies in order to empower young people and equip them with necessary competences to be able to tackle problems in their lives. As a participant I was the happiest member of the group. My first international event. It was the first time I was out of my country, the first time I took the plane and went somewhere without my parents. I would never believe it would happen to me. The first time I filled an application of participation and it was approved. Honestly, I did not believe it was true. I just automatically answered to all the e-mails and when I received the original of the Invitation letter I was kind of scared. Then when I went to the embassy I was expecting that somebody would tell me that they saved me from trafficking. But no, everything was more than ok. I was very scared but could not stop. Even my parents did not forbid me which was very strange and unexpected for me. I landed to Budapest airport and was expecting somebody to kidnap me but nothing happened. I had that same feeling till the last day and when I got home alive I could hardly believe I survived and had such an amazing dream week at the European youth Center Budapest. I just had no one to turn for help or for advice. No friend of mine had participated to an international event and no one understood what I was doing. But I realized I had to hide my fears and show (fake) that I fully understood what I was doing. Despite of all these feelings I was happy. I was free, independent and I was different. I split my life in two parts-before and after this study session at the European Youth Center Budapest. It changed me a lot. I always knew what the human rights are but I never realized I had them too. I used to think that human rights were necessary only at courts and only the lawyers needed to know them. I myself never used those words before and never gave any meaning to them. But now, at this study session I see people fighting for it, standing for their right to speak, to act and to live their life the way they want to. It was something new for me, something I did not know and would never know but for this study session at the European Youth Center Budapest. Besides the huge skills, it also helped me to discover myself, to see who I was, who I am and who I want to be.
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