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Almost three years ago I shared my own dream to build a place where people can share their dreamsTwo years ago

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I start to collect people dreams many times ago. Their dreams were always inspiring me and makes me go after my dreams. My first conversation about "dreams-communities" happened with many people this year in OasisGame in Madrid. We talked with people about their dream place; where/how do they want to live ?

After this meeting I also find a small community garden in Madrid. "Esta es una plaza" It inspires me a lot. People, neighbours are connected and they care their deep relations. Also in Barcelona while I live I find many communities where people can interact; share; their experience, knowledge, time, feeling..

I have many talks about dreams with many travelers, my neighbours, school friends, family.. And I realized that people want to do something together, they want to inspire each other, they want to feel connected with people also where they actually live; do things that actually they want to do..

Everyday I was waking up with a huge belief; I want to do the same in my community in Turkey! I want to connect with my friends, family and people that I don't know yet. Inspire people with things that inspires me. We are individual we have the opportunity to connect. We can create really good things together with our huge energy for a better world!!

This year I learn many things in this amazing country!

Share what you know!

ACT with your community!

and always h ave fun!

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A family day  after a meal  prepared by our personal chef (my brother) laughs, games and my little nephew 11 days of born in arms  was the time chosen to talk about dreams and concerns  they have in their community,  their priorities have changed with the new family member  and I thought it would be interesting to hear what they have to say.  It was not easy at first but between one thing and another we get some clear dreams.  Greater security is first in list  followed by an increased flow of public transport,  more stores because everything is quite far,  more coverage for mobile (difficult)  better treatment of the social workers in the area  and a playground for children.  I was surprised to see how priorities can change in just one month  and that yesterday you worried about your neighborhood is not as important.  It was a nice experience  I also used to meet that strange and crazy people claiming to be my family.  :P

P.D: Tomorrow we are !!

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Asking people about their dreams seems to be more complicated than it sounds. Sometimes it’s difficult for people to think about dreams which are related to their realities, but not limited by what they perceive as possible. From my experience we tend to go either very far, to a fantasy world, or too close, to a reality slightly better than the one we live in. For instance I asked yesterday a group of students what would they change in their city if they had the capacity to do it. One of the answer was move the city to the seashore, and another, of the same person getting realistic, was reducing the number of cars in the city.

What would be interesting in my opinion, is having tools which allows us to reach to those dreams that are in the middle… and then see how we could reach them with small steps.

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The dreams of children can be fascinating, and very enriching. In their dreams, which are usually less conscious than those of adults, you can find out about the things that really matter to them. I was just talking to my five years old nephew who is living in Lebanon, and he told me that he’s so excited because they are going to close some streets and not allow cars in (it is for a temporary event). The way he was describing what he imagines would happen when they do so, sounded so beautiful, he was describing how the streets would be only “ours” and not “theirs”, and how he would be able to let go the hand of his parents and walk and run in the middle of the street alone. I found what he said very revealing, expressing a need he wouldn’t have possibly expressed in another way. He was expressing his fears and sense of enmity and hostility towards the cars, and his need of feeling safe, but also the need for freedom.
This made me think about the emotions, priorities, and needs that could be read/discovered through the dreams of someone, even when the dreams are fantasies that are far from reality.

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I've been talking with the girls I work with and decided that I'll explain the dream we share, the one we are trying to put forward in our project. We find that youngsters with functional diversity are often alone during recess, and have dificulties to find someone to go to the cinema with or just enjoy their free time with. We find the activities planned for youngsters with functional diversity are often directed to the worst off, and many find them unsuitable to their needs, and the activities (like Boy Scouts and the like) available for everybody are not ready to meet their needs either, or the people guiding them are not sensitive enough or have the formation to manage their needs.

Of course we dream a big solution, one that encompasses the education of the whole society towards the needs and the way to manage them of everybody... we're far from having those powers (not in this planet anyway) so we started proposing a way to cover this need by creating a project in which we mix youngsters from all backgrounds and make no discrimination and create the space so all can mix and play and learn and enjoy together. We are working through non-formal education methods and finding it is much more challenging that just working with youngsters with functional diversitiy alone, but it is woth the effort for it works marvelously.

We're in our first year and have many things to improve. We excell at making mistakes, so we learnt a lot this year! But it works... so we'll keep it up!

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Last year I was involved in a project that aims to tackle intra christian sectarianism across Glasgow. Over the course of a small international volunteering summer project people from diverse countries in Europe were involved for two weeks. All of them were touched by the subject and how many challenges there still are on this issue. So in those weeks we had a shared dream. A dream to raise the awareness on the subject and to try and bring people closer together. One of the tools we used for that was a flashmob. In the video you will see interviews with participants.

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Make the River the Only Thing that Divides Glasgow | Xchange Scotland

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Between the 16th and the 30th of August, Xchange Scotland hosted an IVP project, bringing together a group of 7 international volunteers to Glasgow to explore the topic of Sectarianism and to help carry out a series of community engagement activities as part of our project "Make Sectarianism a History Lesson", funded by Scottish Government until March 2015.

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After many years of living here and doing a lot of community projects everywhere except for in my own street I decided I wanted to clean it a bit. I felt a bit unsure, because it feels weird to pick up garbage (how strange is that). But when I started lots of people came out for a chat and sometimes helped, they told me they also wanted that the street was cleaner & everybody had more contact with the neightbours. More actions will follow...