“Let’s Create Social Inclusion Opportunities for Young Orphans” (photo reportage from the 16-th training day)

On December 24, 2010, “Human Rights in the XXI Century-Azerbaijan” Foundation finished the tenth 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 16-th day of the trainings, Ms. Rahimova informed the training participants of “Discrimination based on prejudice”. The trainer talked about general notion of prejudice and informed the training participants about prejudice because of race, social class, gender, ethnicity, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation. At the end of the training, the problems that people encounter in Azerbaijan in terms of prejudice were discussed. The psychological part of the trainings is conducted by professional psychologist Aynur Babirova. The psychologist delivered a training regarding therapy of labor and game. She informed the participants about positive effects of work in human life. The participants were divided into groups and played an intellectual and entertaining simulation game called “Who we are and others”. At the end of the training, the participants discussed the game and gave their feedback.