IFM-SEI

IFM-SEI is looking for a new project officer to co-ordinate our current global project ‘Co-operAction’.

The rise of far-right parties and groups in many European countries is shocking. Sexist jokes, anti-democratic views and racist, anti-semitic, islamophobic and homophobic remarks are accepted in many parts of our society. Easy solutions for complex challenges and difficult circumstances become more and more popular. Also our organisations, individual members and meeting places have been attacked.

Nominations have been re-opened for the Rainbow Network Co-ordinator for IFM-SEI. The post is a three-year term, starting from June 2013. The Rainbow Network is an open network of any member of IFM-SEI interested in working internationally on the issues of gender and sexuality or setting up national networks.

Our member organisation “All Pakistan Federation of United Trade Unions” (APFUTU) has recently opened a new school with the financial support of Woodcraft Folk, Sheffield (United Kingdom) to educate young labour children from a brick factory.

We are back from an amazing Co-operACTION core group meeting. From 3–10 March, 11 educators spent a week full of training on co-operatives, exchanging about unfair trade, experiencing cooperation and planning educational processes for youth co-operative projects in 11 Falcon organisations.

Here is IFM-SEI's first newsletter in 2013 with many interesting short updates from members around the world and invitations to future seminars, summer camps and to the Workers Youth Festival.

In November 2012 IFM-SEI held a study session to introduce our ‘Rainbow Resources’ publication on gender and sexuality education with children to young educators from member and partner organisations who are now running local Rainbow projects. If you would like to find out more about the content and the results of the study session, you can read our report.

We invite young people from our European member organisations to our seminar “Turning the tide: The rise of right-wing extremism in Europe and how to tackle it peacefully”. It will take place in Vilnius, Lithuania from April 28th – May 5th 2013.

The documentary film ‘If you are poor, I am poor’ and the web documentary of the VAP project is now available online and on DVD!

Hello everyone. I am Bine from the German Falcons and for the next nine month I will do an European Voluntary Service at the IFM-SEI office in Brussels.

Our newest educational resources are online, this time on poverty and inequality.

IFM-SEI Courrier Octobre 2012

200 Woodcraft Folk joined 150,000 Trade Unionists and progressive organisations in London to demostrate against austerity and in favour of a fairer future for all.

APFUTU demonstrate for Malala Yousafzai

Happy to share the latest edition of the IFM-SEI newsletter! Inside you will find recent updates on the work of IFM-SEI and our member organisations­. Enjoy!

Save the Date! The Premiere of IFM-SEI's Volunteering Against Poverty Documentary will take place on 30 November 2012 in Brussels.

Watch the short video on Girls rights https://vimeo.com/50977356

From 11–18 November 2012, we will hold a Study Session on gender and sexuality rights education with children in the European Youth Centre Budapest. We are looking forward to getting your application!

EVS Volunteer Pavla Čiháková from Czech Pionyr finishes her year volunteering for Woodcraft Folk UK and produces a calendar to inform others about the opportunity.

After the success of ‘Volunteering against Poverty’, we are applying for a new global European Voluntary Service project. If you are interested in volunteering for up to a year in a sister organisation, read the call here!