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This project, which is beening implemented from 2005 - 2016, is focused on the organization of quality activities, integration and the improvement of social skills of the preschool and school children of national minorities, who have no financial resources for the attendance of regular kindergartens and extracurricular activities, and on the encouragement of voluntary work and employment of the unemployed teachers and educators. Project is implemented during the whole school year, (10 months) in the town of Vodnjan, and activities are implemented in the playrooms and creative workshops in five programs:
In 2001, Merlin Association has launched a continuing education project, with the following goals:
- informal education in the traditional and artistic crafts: tailoring and sewing workshops, weaving workshops, molding, clay and plaster casts
- inclusion and the encouragement of self-employment of the unemployed women, adolescents and women of various age groups
- occupational activities for persons with special needs: weaving, clay and plaster casts, souvenir making…
The participants of sewing, weaving, handicraft and souvenir-making workshops are trained individually, depending on their skills and abilities. Workshop participants are people who wish to learn old skills, who do not only gain knowledge but also develop their sense of own worth ad self-confidence. When encouraging the creativity and the design of original handicrafts, we also cherish the traditional textile and artistic crafts. The motifs and objects created in our workshops are historically, culturally and aesthetically consistent with the Istrian, Mediterranean and Croatian tradition.
The ARTEKSTIL project is a work and occupational workshop for the wards of the Vila Marija Home for Adults, the Center for Inclusion and Support in the Community, the Association of Deaf and Hearing-impaired Persons, and the benficiaries of the Red Cross Homeless Shelter.
Until 2012 Merlin Association was organizing computer workshops for people of different ages and education, where the goal was to train them to work on the computer, allowing them to access a wealth of information, expanding their network for communication, and providing them with greater equality in the labor market.
