Young people are considered to be the future of Europe, but still today’s
societies are not quite prepared to challenge the lack of opportunities that
they face in their everyday life, particularly to challenge the problems of
young people from disadvantaged neighborhoods or the problems of young
people who face variety of disadvantages.
Disadvantaged?!
The term disadvantaged neighbourhood refers to areas deprived of some of
the basic necessities, such as adequate housing, medical care, or
educational facilities, employment, social security….. areas with lack of
opportunities
Disadvantage refers to something that causes difficulty: something that
makes someone or something worse or less likely to succeed than others.
We, the Youth Social Rights Network are determined to use these terms –
disadvantaged neighborhoods and disadvantage, till the point when there
is no such thing as: disadvantage.
By using these terms, we don’t want to discriminate or put a label to any
of the areas and/or people. We just want to stress the existence of such
areas that require significant and specific joint efforts with
multidisciplinary approaches, towards the elimination of the
disadvantages, and towards providing access to housing, health,
education, vocational training, decent employment, social protection and
other basic rights for every young person in Europe.
Biljana Vasilevska Trajkoska