The Festival of Good Deed
On the 3rd of June, the Tolerance Centre hosted the concluding event of the first tier of its “Five Steps to Tolerance” programme, which has been implemented at the Centre over the last six months. The programme’s participants – students from secondary vocational education organisations – presented the social projects, which they had been developed and planned all by their own efforts. For the duration of the event, the young people made their evaluations of the projects of the other teams, asked questions and took a sincere interest in what their peers had come up with. We witnessed much in the way of honest interest, energy and the desire to discuss the importance and viability of each project – and this itself, in our opinion, constitutes one of the main results of the programme.
Opening the event, Aleksandr Savushkin, project leader at the Tolerance Centre, said: “We have spent half a year in your company, and if we have been able to help you give some thought to tolerant relations towards different social groups, then our work has not been in vain! Meeting you over the first few days, we could already see that you are highly imaginative, intelligent people, capable of holding your own point of view and an active civil stance. I am proud to see that such a generation is growing up in our country. We will meet a great future thanks to you.”
The Centre of Tolerance expresses its recognition and gratitude to our partners: To the head of the section for civil and patriotic education at the Moscow Centre for Physical, Military, Patriotic and Civil Education of Students in Secondary Vocational Education in the City of Moscow, Natalya Yuryevna Knitel, and the secretary of the Moscow city affiliate of the Russian-wide social organisation “Russian Youth Union,” the Honoured Youth Politics Worker of the Russian Federation, Natalya Vasilyevna Parinova – for their active participation and help in realising the first module of the programme at all its stages, including the final assessment of the projects.
On the 3rd of June, the ten best projects were selected, and their creators presented with their well-deserved awards. We hope that all projects will come to fruition, and that their authors and participants will become genuine vectors of the values of tolerance in the youth community.
