Belonging and learning through Bread – Bread for Intercultural Communication
Project period: 1.01 – 30.09.2021
Our project was built around a bread baking activity with the aim to raise awareness and communication between different cultures. The participants, young people aged between 11 and 19 years old, represented multiple cultures, a large number of which were Russian and Estonian, students at TKG and Suvemäe, as well as from other schools. Apart from these two groups, we had an international community, consisting of Ukrainian, Moldovan, Indian, Argentinian, Brazilian and Dutch participants.
The preparatory visit took place on February 8. The main activity was organized between 17 and 22 of August in Tallinn and in Kloogaranna.
The project was implemented by Suvemäe, the Democratic branch of TKG, with the financial support of the Youth and Education Board – Harno.
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The activity started with ice breaker games, name games and team building activities. The day continued with group activities on researching topics related to bread: young people created teams and worked on which recipes will they cook? history of the recipe, tradition, culture, etc. Next day continued with a City Game at the Balti Jaam market were young people had to accomplish different tasks related to types of bread and cultures. Attached are the groups tasks. Back to the venue, they prepared presentations of what they found out. The evening ended with tasting Banana bread prepared by one of the groups.
The third day started with Pakistani bread. Our guest from Pakistan showed us how to cook Pakistani traditional bread for breakfast, cooked it with us and gave to try. The day continued with young people working on their recipes: we had Ukrainian bread, Netherlands Sugar bread, bread baked by boys, croissants, and a dough prepared for baguette to be baked next day.
On the fourth day we cooked Indian and Nepali bread, Colombian corn pancakes. In parallel, students were working on articles and presentations for the Newspaper Vana Laud.
Days 5th and 6th were spent in Kloogaranna. There we went to the seaside, we played games and we cooked the dinner together. Young people prepared the barbecue. One team baked Georgian bread on the fire. Also we had Mold-Romanian traditional baked sweet bread for those days.
Back to Tallinn, we went back to the venue were the last reflections took place, the evaluation and the discussions of the future plans, projects.
The activity continued on finishing editing the newspaper having as editor en chief Paro, one of the participants who also became a volunteer at Suvemäe. She took care of finishing the newspaper and the blog.
We have elaborated Youthpasses to young people who expressed their wish to get the certificates.
Blog https://breadvanalaud.wordpress.com/
Newspaper “Vana Laud. Bread for Intercultural Communication”
