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Youth Association No Excuse Slovenia
Youth association No Excuse Slovenia encourages the active involvement of all young people in the society. By raising awareness about actual topics, it encourages the development of critical opinion, which enables their personal growth through peer-to-peer and intergenerational education.
The No Excuse campaign combines all activities of the organization and promotes sustainable development, tolerance, communication, healthy life style, involvement of young people with fewer opportunities and active citizenship.
No Excuse Slovenia is an apolitical and non-profit making organization.
Our view
Peer-to-peer education – a silent rider
In a world where television and computer play a major role, young people become less and less interested in formal education, and thus they learn less from lessons than they should. Experience means much more to us than an underlined sentence in a schoolbook, and an international experience means an incredible learning reaction.
Peer-to-peer education is a form of informal education, but people take it for granted and do not pay much attention to it. In this fact precisely lies the success, since young people between the age of 12 and 19 are like sponges that absorb any kind of information from the environment, especially bad ones. This is why the young are characterized as naïve, which is being largely exploited by the world trade. The easiest way of selling someone a pig in a poke is if this pig has before already been bought by some of his peers. Globalization takes a big advantage of naivety, and only a few people make an exception and use this advantage for good intentions.
More about this issue and the organization can be found on www.noexcuse.si