SUMMER IN TOPONICA, DONJA TOPONICA

The local partner organisation 'Grupa Kobra' has put a lot of effort in the past years in developing and improving life conditions of its small community concerning its environmental protection and encouraging youth activism in this rural area. It is a group of 11 young people that got active since 2007, when they realized that if they do not do something for their village and for themselves, no one will. Although young, they received twice an award for their activities from the Ministry for Youth. It has been four years that they are organizing international workcamps with the aim to familiarize the local young people with their peers from other countries as they do not have opportunities to travel. In the past workcamps they turned an illegal dump into a children's park, they created a small resort with a beach volleyball terrain, reconstructed and repaired an abandoned cultural centre. Gatherings and activities together with the local youth are essential to this workcamp, the hosts would use the opportunity to present their local community, tradition and customs and, together with the participants of the camp, to encourage rural development, youth mobility and intercultural understanding. This will be 8th international work camp in Donja Toponica.