Our 2022 work plan focused on climate justice direct actions, queerness and subversive identities, migration and displacement, ancestral indigenous techniques for healing and well-being, the importance of documenting activism and much more!

Our goal with this years work-plan was to ensure that climate justice is accessible for all, taking into account diverse minds, different access and mobility needs and wishes, being thoughtful of different financial backgrounds and the abolishing white-washed structures. We keep on working to ensure the inclusion of marginalised youth, questioning why projects organised by big organisations usually fail on reaching out to those that needed them the most. And of course, we wanted to create stronger connection with our queer siblings, share skills and knowledge on self-care and develop effective strategies to empower our communities, not forgetting to bring back indigenous technologies that have been (and continues to be) erased by colonialism and capitalism.

Through our local workshops & trainings, we continued to have hard and important conversations with other grass-roots organisations, in local and European-wide levels, with the hope that slowly awareness, accountability and social justice are the norm.

The highlight of the year were the 1 week-long international activity Queer elsewhere – exploring intersecting oppression of queer migrant youth, and the 3 days gathering Black Farming Weekend. Both events brought together youth from different corners of Europe, that were so so so different from each other but that had so much in common!

This year we gave special focus on our local activities, we implemented a series of workshops, skill share meetings and hangouts. We tackled topics such a racism, colonialism, sexual health, self care, conflict, awareness, empowerment and liberation. We’d like to keep stimulating the active participation of young people in democratic life by improving local youth work and non-formal education, helping them to build new competencies in the fields of self-organisation, civic engagement, campaigning and solidarity, and by facilitating youth engagement, connection, and empowerment, as well as provide information about EU programs and opportunities for youth and youth work. In average over 400 young activists benefited direct and indirectly in our local projects and we are so so pleased to have received great feedback from the attendees. We definitely opened the path for new collaborations and we are truly happy with the outcomes.