The aim of our project called „ stop drugs” is to implement a double youth exchange in
Sturovo/Slovakia and Cristuru Secuiesc between 17-24 year old young people (from whom 16
disadvantaged) of 4 countries. During the twice 9 day long youth exchanges implemented as a
bottom-up initiative we want to focus on the one hand on the development of the youth’s knowledge
in connection wtih drugs so that they learn such mechanisms that help them ward off emergency in
connection with drugs and a preventive view should be formed in them. On the other hand our aim is
that they learn knowledge and abilities through which they can identify the appearance of drugs in
their surroundings, help the young people who got in contact with drugs and can transmit them the
preventive view. By reaching these goals we contribute to the decrease of drug use of young people,
the increase of youth communities, peer groups in this respect in the long run too. The programme
draws attention to a quite serious problem and we want to emphasize with our program the lack of
space of the drug prevention work: the importance of learning from each other and peer help.
The main aim of the thematic work planned on the youth exchanges is to make the young people
understand what are the reasons inside us that make somebody be dependent. Over the
understanding of the reasons to get the information, abilities that help the emergence of drug use,
and/or what we can do if we need help or somebody in our surroundings needs help. Over the
understanding the social reasons the aim is the understanding of ourselves, our motives,since it
helps a young person very little if he understands what socially leads to the drug use.
Through this only his intellect got impulse and he can get it from anywhere, from books and the
internet.