Thursday 19 November 2015

Development Day in Bratislava

The Development Day, the whole day event commemorating the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October) was an opportunity for all, children, young and older people to get know work of the PMVRO member organizations.
 
Around 1 000 visitors could join a range of different activities in Stara trznica (Old Market) in Bratislava on October 14th: workshops for children, drumbeating with the music group La3no Cubano, Global kitchen, interviews with volunteers and field workers, discussion on migration and solidarity, the benefit concert.

The participants of the Development Day older than 10 years could join the game On the Run to experience dilemmas that refugees from Syria face on their journey to Europe. For a while they became a wife/a husband with two children made by the conflict to sell their house, flee the homeland and risk their lives on the journey to Europe.

The gamers had fun when they were trying to persuade the estate agent they should get more money for their house or when they were supposed to make a paper boat and sail from Turkey to Greece in a bowl filled by water.
















But they also found out how it feels to be cheated by a smuggler whom they paid lots of money to travel to Europe by land and to be made spend last money to take the risky travel by sea.

The game was found interesting by the vice-premier and the minister of foreign and European affairs, Miroslav Lajcak who participated in the Development Day, too.















The visitors of the Development Day in Bratislava were the first ones who could admire the exhibition of the best 9 photos, read 3 best articles registered in the Decent Life for All competition in Slovakia and see 6 photos by AkvilÄ— NorkutÄ—, the winner of the competition in Linthuania.















The evening of the Development Day belonged to the winners of the competition Decent Life for All in Slovakia who were awarded by a Slovak celebrity, Adela Banasova who is also one of three EYD2015 ambasadors.
Martin Krpac, the author of the best photo Cry for help was given the flight ticket in the amount of 550 EUR from the travel agency TUCAN,  vouchers in the amount of 50 EUR, 15 EUR and 10 EUR for printing photo books and photo pictures from CEWE, a.s. and promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid.















The prize for the second best photo Nur a Sarah are revising what they had learnt before they ran from home by Anton Fric was the 3-day relaxation stay from the civic association CEEV Zivica, vouchers in the amount of 50 EUR, 15 EUR and 10 EUR for printing photo books and photo pictures from CEWE, a.s. and promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid.

Lenka Basnakova, the author of the third best photo The old man was given vouchers in the amount of 50 EUR, 15 EUR and 10 EUR for printing photo books and photo pictures from CEWE, a.s., free tickets to the film festival Jeden svet (One World), fair trade coffee from Ten Senses, s.r.o. and promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid.




















The prize for Tomas Bella for the best story How I became a radical in one week because of refugees was the 1 500 EUR grant to travel to a country with lower income and to get inspiration for writing another interesting articles on development issues, free tickets to the film festival Jeden svet (One World) and promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid.
















The author of the second best story Kampuchean sugar does not taste sweet, Magdalena Vaculciakova was given the 3-day relaxation stay from civic association CEEV Zivica, fair trade coffee from Ten Senses, s.r.o. and promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid.

Free tickets to the film festival Jeden svet (One World) and the travel festival Cestou necestou, fair trade coffee from Ten Senses, s.r.o., promo gifts from the Representation of EC in Slovakia and from the SlovakAid were given to Pavol Strba for his story The boy who survived his own death that finished third.


1 comment:

  1. I must say that it is beautiful place for tourists as well as for visiting. Bratislava is the Capital of Slovakia. I will go there for enjoy my time after ending my https://www.topbustours.com/los-angeles-departures/

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