Lelenfant is a Cultural Educational and Artistic Program for children and young people (age 9 – 16 years old) from around the world in order to create a platform for participants to exchange and develop their skills and interest in an atmosphere of peer learning (so called kids teach kids). 

The project has been financially supported since 2009 by the Municipality of Wrocław and is one of its key international projects with a global scope that fosters the participation and inclusion of young people through art. 

We invite you to host the participants of the international edition of Lelenfant 2023 from countries such as Iran, Czech Republic, Tanzania, India, Morocco, Palestine starting from the dateon August 19/23 - August 31, 2023. Depending on the availability of their hosts, children and leaders can start overnight stays with their Host Family from August 19, 20, 21, 22 or from August 23, 2023 at the latest.

The tasks of the Host Family include:

– providing accommodation (separate room) for two children from the same artistic group or leader
– providing breakfast and dinner (and other meals on days free from artistic activities)
– transport to artistic workshops at 9:15 and pick up at 16:30 from Pilczyce (Center for the Deaf at Dworska Street) on weekdays
– constant contact with the group leader and host family coordinator

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE THE LELENFANT ARTISTIC GROUPS?

Lelenfant Groups are made up of around 4-10 young artists accompanied by one or two adult Group Leader. The participants should be between 8 and 16 years old. Leaders must be at least 18 years of age, have strong English language proficiency, and know the children in the group well. They can be a teacher or supervisor at the children’s local organization. During the project, Group Leaders participate in their own artistic program of activities and run workshops for local children, in addition to supervising and supporting their groups. 

Our project has a priority to foster inclusion which means that we invite young people coming from different social and economical backgrounds. We welcome everyone who is interested in intercultural friendship. We partner with strong, socially-minded, mission-driven organizations, but we also welcome informal groups of children who have started to practice some form of art as a way to improve their lives and their communities.

We believe that the strength of our project lies in creating it with children and young people in spirit of respect for their heritage and identity and with their full participation and agency on the final result which will be the final performance shown to a wider audience.

Lelenfant 2023 will be organized in Wrocław in the second half of August. We plan to bring together 65 young artists (including 20 local kids from Wrocław). 

The Friendship Art of Education Foundation operates on the basis of funding from the Wrocław Municipality, which allows it to cover the costs associated with the organization of artistic events.

Host Families is an action related to volunteering. We ask Families to cover the costs related to the children's stay in the home or apartment of the Host Family (including food costs - breakfast and dinner).

In the absence of financial possibilities, the Foundation partly covers the costs of purchasing food products and organizes transport to the workshop site.

CONTACT:

EWA SAWKA, Host Families Coordinator
rodziny@lelenfant.org 
tel. 535 548 353

The south-western city of Wrocław was the 2016 European Capital of Culture. Wrocław, the historic capital of Silesia, is one of the biggest and oldest Polish cities.

Wrocław is full of monuments of its thousand years of history. It is best to begin visiting the town in its oldest part, or the former islands on the Odra River and its forked tributaries. The most famous of these are Ostrów Tumski and the Piasek island, a medieval residential quarter, today one of the Polish Monuments of History. 

Wrocław is first Polish city to join European Coalition Against Racism (ECCAR), an initiative launched by UNESCO, a UN agency.

Friendship Art Education Foundation was established in 2020 by NGO's professionals who gained several years of experience in the field of education, global cooperation, global education, multiculturalism, culture and art, as well as cooperation with non-governmental organizations and educational and cultural institutions around the world.

Friendship Art Education has operated the Lelenfant Project (former Brave Kids) since February 2022 financed by Wroclaw Municipality and the Polish Ministry of Culture. In Foundation we share a similar vision of the world and passions.

We believe that it is possible to live peacefully and sustainably on planet Earth, therefore we invite through the Foundation’s activities to jointly search for empathetic contact with yourself, the people around us and nature.