“Shape Your Critics on Silent Wall” #2

Final Poster - Silent Wall 2

Integra supported by Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), implemented the project “Shape Your Critics on Silent Wall” in 5 municipalities of Kosovo. Participants were students from 5 high schools in 5 municipalities: Gjilan: High School “Zenel Hajdini”; Prizren: High School “Gjon Buzuku”; Gjakove: High School “Hajdar Dushi”; Peja: Art High School “Odhise Paskali”; Ferizaj: High School “Kuvendi I Arbërit”.

The aim of this project is: raising awareness and knowledge among youngsters of our society regarding all problems they have. Participants are more conscious on actual negative phenomena that outspread Kosovo, also they felt more powerful, participants felt involved in decision-making processes and more important one was that they achieved skills on being creative, critic by drawing meaningful critical caricatures which could lead to various initiatives for any change.

During the project “Silent Wall – Shape your Critics on Silent Wall” with participants of the workshop activity developments were in different areas:
Becoming Open minded – The workshop has helped participant on becoming more creative, react on better way on specific occasions. While they face with different problems is not that they only react different but they’ll start to judge on different way things that pass through their mind.
Smoothing of Youth Frustrations – It smoothed participants frustrations because of they felt more active and indicative in interrelation with society.

The main component of the project “Shape Your Critics on Silent Wall” was the organization of the Main Training, one-day training, with the created groups of students in Prishtina. Based on the schedule compiled with all the working groups in the Main Training, INTEGRA in cooperation with the trainer of training has organized 5 Intern Workshops in 5 municipalities. Work environments on Intern Workshops were built on the way of making them feel comfortable, creative and influence them on working as team.

After the inter workshops were finished, they have entered the process of scanning and designing of worked products. On this phase INTEGRA staff has arranged and found the designers of posters, which were of format B1 with all designed products of the Silent Wall Workshops with professional trainer.

The number of persons planed to be directly involved and which has passed through the planed activities for this project were the most interactive and creative students of certain schools in the aspect of critical thinking and drawing- caricature drawing. The number of the involved people in the main activities was very limited (up to 6 from each municipality), which is because of the nature of the project, aiming the final product to have a more powerful impact in the general target of this project.

INTEGRA during the implementation of “Silent Wall – Shape Your Critics on Silent Wall – Workshops for Critical Drawing” has faced new experiences. The idea of working on critic cartoons has taught INTEGRA that this target group is really interested to improve its skills and react on specific circumstances; this was shown on their work which has come out from their inner frustrations. By evocating these new experiences, NGO INTEGRA is one step forward toward the reality in Kosovo and has a clearer view of negative phenomena which are outspreaded all over the Kosovo territory, thus INTEGRA –s work plans are going to be compiled based on those new experiences learned and INTEGRA will continue to work on these issues in order to create a proper environment for youth and all population of Kosovo for living in a modern style with all needed and normal system around them.

RG