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Interest groups

SKALA
(The Rock)

- is a group of animators who actively participate in the “Project Rock”. Their work is based on the preventive educational and upbringing system of John Bosco and is primarily oriented towards two fields of action: individual socializing work with young people and street work. In the field of individual and socializing work, the animators meet individuals (approximately once a week) and offer them study- and, most of all, socializing help.

Street work offers options to those young people whose immediate environment offers little or no positive stimulation for everyday life. The animators find young people in their usual environment and offer them free presence and help, if needed.The SKALA group organizes several projects in both fields which are eventually bridged by “Bus veselja” (The Bus of Joy),  the largest project at present. The bus is meant as " a movable room " for meeting young people from the margins and for whom nobody stands up and are eventually left to their own resources. It has six aims: (to be) a playroom, a study room, an information point, a video-room, an advisory center and can at the same time be used as a means of transport for group trips.  

SMEH
(Laughter)

- is a group of volunteers who organize summer holidays, by the same name, for children and teenagers from socially deprivilleged families; including poor, handicapped or otherwise marginalized. The children are chosen according to a special key by the local units of CARITAS who sponsor the project financially. The group was founded in 1994. 

SMC
(Salesian Youth Center)

Another form of youth work in the Guild is organization of spare-time activities in local youth clubs and centers by different names. What they all have in common is a place where young people can meet and a person who is available for conversation at any time. The activities of the clubs are comprised of lectures, game sessions, workshops and other means  of spending spare-time with purpose and as actively as possible. The initiative for how to do this is welcomed from the young people themselves; parents and senior animators are available to offer support in realization. 

ŠLEM
(The Helmet)

- is a small group of volunteer-advisers who try to help out soldiers and recruits. The basic principle of their work is a statement that a recruit is a civil person in a uniform and not a military person which means basically that his rights are the same as those of any other citizen. 

The basic demands of the ŠLEM group addressed to those in charge are:

• The limitations set by special military regulations should be generally known or easily available.
• Each recruit has the right to the freedom of thought, conscience, religion and philosophic principles. It must be made possible for him to live according to those principles. 
• All kinds of information must be available to each recruit.
• The recruits must have equal working conditions as any other citizen. This should be supervised by a civil institution. 
• The recruitment boards are obliged to inform the recruits about all possible forms of military service as well as about their rights and duties beginning with the moment of conscription. 

Mladinski ceh - marec 02, 2001