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Youth Day in Estonia: fire show, Brazilian theater and football with the minister

Estonian National Youth Council
11th of August 2010
PRESS RELEASE

Youth Day in Estonia: fire show, Brazilian theater and football with the minister

Estonian National Youth Council (ENL) celebrates International Youth Day and welcomes the Year of Youth tomorrow, on the 12th of August in a student town Tartu. The celebration program includes fire show, quizzes, sports games, DJs, known bands of Estonia and also a Brazilian theater-performance. The workshops held during the day vary from fishing and juggling works shop to film making or European Parliament simulations.

ENL's member organizations gather together to the youth organizations fair, Estonian Gaid Association is renting people in the frame of the project "Living Library" where people can borrow people instead of books and learn more about differences and develop their tolerance.

Traditionally there will be a football match between the Ministry of Education and Research and Estonian National Youth Council. The Minister of Education and Research has been playing for years together with advisors, chancellors and ministry officials. ENL's team consists on youth organizations activists.

The main topic of the International Youth Day in Estonia is "Find your way!". ENL is gathering together entertainment, youth information, youth organizations, hobby courses, youth centers etc in order to help young people find a suitable way to realize him/herself.

"The best benefit for young people is that they can get a lot of valuable information from one location - starting from what kind of interesting youth organizations there are, how to join them, what kind of youth projects are happening and also learning how to raise their own competitiveness. It is also simply fun event and a great way to spend a nice summer day and celebrate international youth day, " comments ENL's chairman Ott Heidmets.

"The deeper meaning of it for us is to remind everybody to consider young people before making any decisions or planning projects - this goes for government officials, private companies, teachers and everybody else. We want to promote that young people should be an equal partner as from them naturally depends the development of the country. We motivate everybody for a bigger co-operation, find each other and find their own place and way of doing thigs," adds Heidmets.

Estonian National Youth Council (Eesti Noorteühenduste Liit; ENL) is an umbrella organization that unites 49 Estonian youth organizations. ENL's main goals are to represent youth organizations, shape a supporting public opinion and to develop legislative environment. ENL supports active participation of youth and also represents members' youth political interests in Estonia and in the international level. ENL has been celebrating International Youth Day from the year of 2002.

More information:
Meelika Jürisaar
Estonian National Youth Council
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E-mail: meelika@enl.ee
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