“Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans” (photo reportage from the 15-th training day)

On December 20, 2010, “Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan” Foundation finished the 15-th training day within its project “Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans”. The project is funded by the European Youth Foundation of the Council of Europe and implemented by the “Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan” Foundation. Trainings cover the education of social rights as part of human rights and psychological activities in order to provide the young people from orphanages with necessary capacity to integrate into society and to help them to be responsible citizens and free individuals in the country. 20 young people of 14-17 years of age have been engaged in the trainings and the venue for the trainings is the orphanage number 2 in Mardakan settlement of Baku city. The participants live in the orphanage and do not have any parental support and access to social life. The legal part of the trainings is conducted by the professional lawyer Ulviyya Rahimova. On the 15-th day of the trainings, Ms. Rahimova raised awareness of the young participants about employment discrimination. She explained to the participants the factors that disable people to apply and receive jobs based on their race, gender, nationality, disability and sexual orientation. In addition, the trainer informed the training participants about certain state bodies, national and international organization and encouraged them to apply to those institutions in case of discrimination. The psychological part of the trainings is conducted by professional psychologist Aynur Babirova. The theme of the psychological activity was “Selection of profession”. The training participants were provided with special tests which helped them to find out their aspirations for choosing professions. The psychologist discussed with them their decisions on profession and she gave psychological recommendations regarding their aspirations.