Our aim is to help disadvantaged families living in run-down, local municipality owned tenements, generally struggling with rent-arrears. We carry out renovations involving young volunteers and the mostly unemployed locals within the framework of a reconstruction camp. The increase in the value of the buildings brought about by the renovations is credited to the tenants thus reducing their arrears of rent. Our goal was to prevent forced evictions which are the results of the rent arrears – with a one-time possibility people for people to get out of their debt spirals. Within this collaboration we could offer local people an opportunity to shape their surroundings by working together, thus perceiving themselves as a group with a common interest, and to upgrade thesocial housing settlement’s community and increase their consciousness. The camp also gives a possibility to improve their own neighborhood, and create more sustainable living conditions. Meeting and working together with volunteers from all over the country people can see each other’s lives directly without any negative stereotypes. The media representation of the project has a positive impact on many people’s thinking about social problems and tenants of social housing units, and by involving various people we can reduce social exclusion.

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