Marta in Latgale

Today is a special day for the MARTA Centre. We are deeply honoured to receive the Simone Veil Prize of the French Republic – an award granted to individuals and organisations whose work promotes gender equality and improves the lives of women and girls around the world. We accept this prize with deep gratitude and pride. It is not only a recognition of the MARTA Centre, but also a reminder of how essential and necessary the fight for women’s safety, dignity, and freedom rema

Handbook on the Inclusion and Support of Highly Vulnerable Young People in International Non-Formal Learning Programmes is a practical guide created to make international youth opportunities accessible, safe, and inclusive for marginalized young people. Developed within the LADDER project, it helps youth workers and organisations answer a key question: how can international programmes truly reach and support those who need them most? The handbook combines essential theory w

Chernihiv usually greets us with its beautifully illuminated church, a quiet sign of continuity. This time, the city was wrapped in darkness. No streetlights, no glowing windows – the entire city without electricity. After the seminar ended, even the common spaces where we had gathered for the exchange of good practices among Resilience Centres went dark. And yet, inside the room where we worked, there was warmth – not only physical, but human. The seminar itself was exceptio