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The Universal Forum of Cultures has joined efforts with the United Nations to disseminate the Objectives of the Millennium Declaration, the real road map in the fight against world poverty.
Our common objective is to prepare young people so that they will have the capacity to meet the challenges of 2015, the first deadline established by the 189 countries which have signed the Millenium Declaration. Indeed, the Peace Camp is aimed at the children of today who will be responsible for managing the effects of globalization in 2015, especially in developing countries.
The young people taking part in the Peace Camp will be special guests of the organization: they are the only ones who will be resident inside the Forum, with access to the Site 24 hours a day.
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The Peace Camp will welcome a total of 1,300 children aged between 12 and 14 from 28 cities around the world to stay for one of nine ten-day sessions between May and September. In each individual camp there will be a group of 13 youngsters and two chaperones from each city. Along the lines of an international summer school, the boys and girls are supervised by a group of 15 monitors who have been specially trained for this project.
Taking part in the Peace Camp are groups from New Delhi (India), Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Algiers (Algeria), Montevideo (Uruguay), Shanghai and Chengdu (China), Maputo (Mozambique), Mexico City (Mexico), Cape Town (South Africa), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Genoa (Italy), Tel Aviv, Emrek-fer and Shefaran (Israel), Gaza (Palestine), Samarkand (Uzbekistan), Tehran (Iran), and various Spanish and Catalan cities.
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The Peace Camp aims to serve as a meeting point for learning and exchange, in which boys and girls from developing countries and countries that have embarked on a process of peace or integration may find ways and means to live together and to respect each other's cultural, social and individual diversity, as well as the environment.
During their stay, the youngsters will participate in activities designed to promote exchange inside the camp and in particular on the Forum Site. There will also be a program of visits within Barcelona and to other places in Catalonia.
The Forum is responsible for the Peace Camp project. Management of the Camp itself has been entrusted to the NGO Save the Children on the premise that never before has an experiment of this kind been undertaken that is so complex in terms of its length, the diversity of the participants' origin, and the variety of diet requirements and languages involved.
The ultimate aim of this project is to build up a wealth of cross-cultural knowledge and experience that will be of pedagogical assistance at the next Forum and Peace Camp, and to create educational and training materials for teachers and educators from the cities taking part both now and in the future.
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