Social Engagement
These topics urged us to take action:
GYCO - the initiative for encouragement of the youth in northern UgandaThe organization GYCO aims to bring back self esteem, joy of life and meaningfulness to the post civil war youth in the region of northern Uganda. GYCO supports training and education of young people who will subsequently lead the constitution of the GYCO Art and Education Center locally in Gulu's civil society.
The GYCO Art and Education Center will be a place of permanent and lasting encounter between the local, northern Ugandan arts and crafts, civil society of Gulu province, and businesses and entrepreneurs. The GYCO Arts and Education Center will be the place for the youth of Gulu affected by post-conflict to start a new, self-determined life. Through intensive collaboration and close engagement with local businesses, politicians, NGOs working in the region, and most importantly civil society, GYCO will create a youth center for experimental and interdisciplinary artists and artisans from a wide range of fields and disciplines.
With 15.09.2022 our support association for GYCO in Uganda - "GYCO - Association for the Promotion of Ugandan Youth" - has managed the entry on the list of donation-privileged organizations of the Federal Ministry of Finance - your donation is therefore tax deductible for Austrian tax-payers!
Different - not "handicapped"We who are healthy and have all the abilities that creation has given to the species homo, genus sapiens, can take our fate into our own hands and shape our own future. But among us there are many who, for whatever reason - karma, fate, destiny - were not born of this abundance of gifts.
But even these people feel like us - happiness, joy but also grief and fear. All of us who are allowed to enjoy the abundance of gifts should assist those people. And we do ....
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