By reading the contributions to this Newsletter, one will once again be aware of the extent, not only geographic of Dynamo International’s network, but of the diversity of its fields of investigation. By giving echo to them on its site the association wants to give them an international visibility. Moreover, sharing experiences enriches field workers all over the world.

Daniela Dalmasso, presents the Global Campaign for Education in which Dynamo International is in all logic a partner, education being at the base of delinquency prevention. The event organised with the Institut Communal Professionnel Horticole in Brussels has given some thirty students the opportunity to better understand the stakes of school education and the difficulties of access for so many youngsters in other continents.

The Coordinator of the Comité d’Appui au Travail Social de Rue (CATSR) in the Congo Democratic Republic, takes stock regarding the enforcement of the law for the protection of the child, promulgated by the President early 2010. He firmly denounces the status quo of the situation of the children in his country, nothing having indeed been done to really stop their ill treatments.

Two European countries, Spain and England, report on their initiatives to organise national conventions of street educators.
The meeting in Spain, organised by the Asociación Navarra Nuevo Futuro was the first at national level and will have served as first step to the International seminar to be held next June in Pamplona.
The UK Federation for Detached Youth Work in Great Britain has been restructured and has widened its international contacts. Its dynamism, notwithstanding its limited means, deserves to be underlined.

The interview of the young European voluntary, who put a lot of enthusiasm into her work with Dynamo projects, should encourage other young people to give a try to one of the experiences offered by the European Voluntary Service. After her ten months training, Marta Jimenez hopes to stay in Belgium definitely; Best wishes to her.

Finally, Dynamo International announces its Second International Forum of Social Street Workers, organised on the occasion of the European Year against poverty and social exclusion, in Brussels, from 26 to 30 October 2010.

This 2nd INTERNATIONAL FORUM is the unmissable event in the calendar of the International Network of Social Street Workers. Organized under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union by Dynamo and Dynamo International in partnership with « Traces de Rue » French speaking social street workers platform and « Vlastrov » Flemish Federation of social street workers of Belgium, with Brussels Laïque ASBL - Festival des Libertés, the General Delegate of Child Rights, the Ministries and Administration of Youth Help, the International Bureau of the youth, the Belgian BAPN and European EAPN Anti Poverty Network, as well as numerous other partners, it falls plum within the scope of 2010 European year for combating poverty and social exclusion...

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The Global Campaign for Education (GCE) struggles to ensure education for all children around the world and aims at making children and adults aware of this problem.

Like every year, GCE organized a Global Action Week (from 19 to 15 of April 2010) whose theme, linked to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, was this time « 1 Goal = a Lesson for all ». All the schools were also invited to take part in the world's biggest Lesson. The purpose was to remind adults that Education is a right for all…

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Pamplona hosted the first Spanish Street Workers Meeting. In the course of the morning, more than 50 professionals and social workers of various autonomous communities have shared their experiences, reflections and working methods at the meeting celebrated that morning in the civic conference room.

The Meeting was built and prepared during meetings of local workshops of street workers, themselves connected to the International Network of Social Street Workers. Through group dynamics, we particularly sought the participation of the assistants in this forum whose goal was to share experiences, methodologies and especially the difficulties, doubts and uncertainties they face in their daily work...

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It has become common to say that the promulgation on January 10th 2009 of the law on child protection in DRC by the President of the Republic and Head of the State marks a breaking off with the situation of nonright in which the children used to live in the ex Belgian Congo. Rupture because today, the abuse of a child in this country exposes its authors to prosecution accompanied, if it is necessary, by penal sanctions. Rupture also because the Democratic Republic of Congo is not anymore this part of the world where the recruitment of children to go to war, rapes of young girls, assault and battery as well as denunciations of witchcraft of children enjoys structural impunity...

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The UK Federation for Detached Youth Work has been working hard recently. A new executive committee, voted in at last November’s annual conference, has agreed a range of actions that they hope will advance the cause of detached and street-based youth work both at home and abroad.

A particular focus is to build upon the immensely successful national conference of 2009, which aimed to promote more positive attitudes to the street. The conference agreed that a context of “La Sécurité” did little to support young people’s personal and social education, especially in public space. A range of workshops identified the positive value of pro-social interventions and the capacity that street work has to support young people’s involvement in community development and political decision-making systems...

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Can you introduce yourself ?

My name is Marta Jimenez, I'm 27 and I come from La Rioja in Spain. There, I studied business and administration. After my studies, I was animator in a cyber library where I taught elderly people and children computer sciences during the holidays.

Why did you choose to come to Belgium ?

By chance! At first I was looking for projects in English-speaking countries. I did not particularly wanted to learn French, but when I saw the Dynamo project, it went pretty well straight away and now I like this language! I wanted to take part in an EVS because I wanted to change my life and do something for myself...

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