Middle East Technical University blocking "Living Library", AEGEE-Ankara's
human rights project to raise awareness and reduce prejudice against
socially excluded people.
BIA News Centre issued an article yesterday about the topic and AEGEE-Ankara
has confirmed its full content to AEGEE-Europe.

Please read the article
here<http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/122850-middle-east-technical-university-blocks-living-library>

The "Living Library Project” is a meeting where the library works normally
as other libraries with only one difference: the books are real persons.
"Readers" come and borrow a "book" for a limited period of time. After
"reading it", they "return the Book" to the "library" and – if they want –
they can "borrow another Book".
The people, who are "books" represent social groups, frequently confronted
with prejudices and stereotypes, being often victims of discrimination or
social exclusion.
The "reader" can be anybody who is ready to confront his or her own
prejudice.
Living Library is an opportunity for intercultural learning and personal
development aimed at people who usually have little access to or little time
for non-formal education programmes.

The aim of the Living Library is
to encourage people to empathize and understand each other by constructing
direct interpersonal dialogue,
to create tolerance and understanding among people who live together,
raise awareness on prejudices creating discrimination towards people and
groups,
to promote the culture of living together with differences,
to provide an atmosphere of interpersonal dialogue between people, who
normally do not have the opportunity to talk to each other.

AEGEE-Ankara had to face the rejection from the university to have a stand
for the Living Library on the ODTÜ Spring Festival.

The NGO however doesn't give up and is looking for a new location for
organising the Living Library Project in October.

For broader information on the issue please read the original article:
http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/122850-middle-east-technical-university-blocks-living-library




Contact Persons:

Eylem Algi
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Bilge Kol
AEGEE-Ankara, Human Rights Project Group
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