The educational clubs run under the “Classroom Lab” stage were spaces of creativity that benefited more than 100 pupils aged between 6 and 12. Four months on from the opening of the clubs at the two primary schools – Hassi Médenine in southern Médenine and Ouerjijen in the Béni Khedache delegation – the activities ranged across culture, art and sport.
They are led by twenty facilitators and human-rights defenders, specialists in their fields and experts in their training, who carry ideas and hopes and work hard to develop children’s abilities, playing an essential role in strengthening social cohesion and protecting children’s rights.
The clubs helped enliven school life and children’s participation, stimulate learning, spark creativity and open paths to artistic expression in music, theatre, drawing, sport and cinema, and spread values of tolerance and cooperation through active citizenship and the practice of human rights. Sport, in particular, nurtured cooperation, teamwork and leadership, encouraged children to make their own decisions, and helped build balanced personalities that accept difference and respect rules.
This activity is part of the “Spaces of Citizenship and the Arts” project carried out by Association La Voix de l’Enfant Rural in Médenine, with support from the Euro-Mediterranean Foundation of Support to Human Rights Defenders and the Fondation de France. The project aims to build the capacities of young people and teachers and to create artistic and cultural clubs for children, in order to defend human rights and spread a culture of civic education among the young.
