Social inclusion In the City of Slagelse the municipality runs a project in cooperation with The Danish Youth Red Cross called "Fritidsguiderne" (Leisure Activity Guides). The goal of the project is to create active spare time for all children and young people from the age of 6-18 years. The Leisure Activity Guides visit families and offer them information of available leisure time activities in the Municipality of Slagelse and what benefit it has to children and young people to be active in their spare time. In cooperation with the child or young person the Leisure Activity Guides help to find and start a leisure time activity58. The project is targeted towards children in refugee and immigration families who are not familiar with the Danish culture of voluntary organisations, and in addition, the project may have contact with children in socially marginalised families where the parents do not have the necessary resources to support their children’s participation in leisure time activities. Activities similar to the one in Slagelse can be found in several places in Denmark, and in some municipalities the guides are also able to make sure that the necessary equipment is purchased (soccer boots, etc.) before the activity is started. The Valve ("Ventilen!") is a voluntary organisation which runs meeting places for quiet and lonely young people between 15 and 25 years of age as well as other activities aimed at lonely young people. The young in this target group are not necessarily socially marginalised or vulnerable, but may for example be university students. A lot of young have to leave their social network in their home town when they begin their further education. Every 10th university student in Denmark states that he/she is lonely.
The Danish Red Cross Youth runs several programmes abroad where young people travel to be volunteers in social work. E.g. in Uganda where the programme attempts to improve the prospects for the future for the young of Uganda. Young Danes teach young Ugandans to create activities which may provide them with an income. At the same time they teach Life Planning Skills which help the young people handle their challenges around sexuality, health and family planning. Danish Red Cross Youth is also in charge of exchange of volunteers in cooperation between Uganda Red Cross and Danish Red Cross Youth. This way the capacity of the volunteers in Uganda Red Cross is strengthened. Creativity and culture Many municipal youth clubs arrange cultural activities and events for young people. As an example, the Ishoej Youth Club hosts annual cultural festivals for young people aged between 13 and 17. These festivals are an opportunity for young people to learn about different cultures; volunteers from around the world arrange activities for young people from Ishoej to participate in. The Youth Club has many facilities, including a music studio, filming equipment, a stage and a dance hall, thus the activities arranged are creative and practical. The activities typically include music, dance, cooking, painting, sewing and film making for example. 4.2.
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Human Rights appear as a topic in formal education and its position has been recently reinforced with the introduction of a Citizenship Partways (Parcours citoyen), across various subjets and different levels of education in the national school
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