Tolerance development centre at Panevezys Mykolas Karka progymnasium has been holding a Song Contest for seven years which marks the Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania. The event took place on March 9th.

This year an International Tolerance Day was by marked by more than 900 schools, kindergartens and institutions of non-formal education. This year‘s symbol is a Tolerance Bird. Particpants of this civic initiative were offered to use a bird symbol so that they could develop the theme looking at the parallels of nature, people‘s life and history.
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Teachers working in Tolerance Development Centres gathered together in the south west of Lithuania, in Kalvarija on November 4-5th.  A two-day seminar “History in the Eyes of Witnesses“ dealt with several topics: one aspect was how to approach witnesses‘ reports in history lessons. Another point was the presentation of a teaching tool for teachers “Stories from the Past“ this material  embodies stories of rescuing Jews in Lithuania during WWII.
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