On February 18-20, a seminar for teachers of the International Children’s Camp “Roots of Tolerance” will take place in Puscha Vodica, near Kyiv. The camp is conducted according to a unique method of holding days of certain nations, when the children get an opportunity to learn about the cultures of Ukraine’s peoples, to grasp the principles of tolerance, and to learn about the history of different peoples and the development of Ukraine’s national life. The seminar is organized by the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.

The seminar will gather 50 representatives from 12 national communities of Ukraine: Ukrainan, Greek, Jewish, Moldjvan, Rumanian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Russian, German. A group of teachers from Moldova will also be present.

The goal of the seminar is an increase in qualification of the workers of the “Roots of Tolerance” camp, to improve the “national days,” and to teach new methods of counteracting discrimination and xenophobia.

The program of the seminar will include practical training, work in mini-groups, presentations, discussions about the experiences of past camps, discussions on tolerance, meetings with tolerance clubs.

In the first day of the seminar, the participants will visit the following organizations: the Debate Academy, Insight, the International Organization for Migration, the Dutch Refugee Council, the Ukrainian Holocaust Research Center, and the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union.