“A different Triangle Youth empowerment under a rainbow of hope” e.p.a. Tri-continental Youth Exchange Project This Tricontinental Youth Exchange Recife / Brasil
Project involved young people from Accra / Ghana
Kingston / Jamaica
Praia / Cape Verde
Cartagena / Colombia
Málaga / Spain
St. Domingo / Dominican Republic
Lisbon / Portugal
2008
the cities of:
Donegal / Irland Liverpool / U.K. Amsterdam / Netherlands Hamburg / Germany
Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
Our accommodation the famous Adelphi Hotel
If you don’t lo ok in the corn ers closely you feel like in a Queen’s pala ce ... The Hotel is situated in th e heart of the city and is Liverpool’s larg est hotel - a spacious an d unique prop erty. Built in 1914 with superb public rooms and panelled suites ... it has also a little marble swimm ing pool, a uniq ue marble foyer, lounge s and corrid ors. Here stayed the mon ey people befo re they boarded the st eam ships to cross the Atlantic for the new world. Our spacious seminar room had a wonderful thic k carpet with strange colors - it cr eated a very familiar ambience with good acoustics. D efi ni te ly a nice su rp ri se fo r al l participants most of them having left their country fo r the very first time. We were very happy that ou r partners in Liverpool co uld arrange a very good deal with the Hotel, to enjo y a nice working enviro nment in the heart of the city and to enjoy the wea lth that was created by th participants from e ancestors of our three continen ts!!
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The City of Liverpool a museum of colonial history
Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
The International Slavery Museum
the centre Albert Dock, at l's oo rp ve Li in from the dry located ly yards away The Museum is on d an te si repaired and itage ing ships were of a World Her ad tr e av sl y ur th cent importance of docks where 18 international e th s ht lig ext. Through high emporary cont nt fitted out. It co d an ic or a hist , models and lations, videos al slavery, both in st in s, w ie rv s a touching ed inte e museum give pictures, record th y la sp di on items many original avery. uel history of sl cr e th insight in their roots in d more about ne ar le ho w le ar and it was g peop very hard to be For some youn as w on ti bi hi , the ex rwards. our workshops and listen afte lk ta to t an rt very impo ted a lot of a few but crea ed er sw an m eu at we had two e mus The visit to th e very happy th er w e w hy w ’s That new questions. oup. perts in our gr ex as historians
Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
Tri-continental friendship
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Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
bia agena / Colom Rafa from Cart ve gi w it feels to was checking ho of the Lord Mayor a speech like om fr young women Liverpool and d an Republic an Spain, Dominic ip sh er” the leader Brasil “took ov rliament. of the local pa ided interesting gu After a very Hall verpool Town tour in the Li lot a d again find where you coul l’ s o o of Li ve rp of ev id en ce e th , w e h ad co lo n ia l pa st e th to ge t on op po rt un it y d an s rved for king balcony - rese ball teams! queens and foot
Liverpool Town Hall
Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
Workshops and Training
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Preparation and Training Seminar in the City of Liverpool 15th - 23rd April 2008
prepared a All participants their project presentation of wn, brought and home to ideas from questions and y for the it their commun nt of our developme i- co nt inenta l am bi tiou s Tr project. Youth Exchange a training on We also had within the communication intercultural network and fferent phases learning in di Exchange. We of a Youth eas and plans talked about id and worked of fundraising ng to-do-list. out a looooooo
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