Growing Together

Nominated 2023

Country: Croatia

Region: Split-Dalmatia County, City of Zagreb

Sector: Commercial enterprise

Fields of action: Youth welfare, Culture, Environmental protection

Project owner: Nakladnička kuća Fraktura / Fraktura publishing house

Responsible person: Seid Serdarević

Website: Weblink

What is it about?

The project consists of publishing 26 books, promoting awareness about social and environmental issues, and encouraging the target audience to partake in reforestation actions and political involvement. At the same, the project has a particularly socially innovative aspect through its' "Let's Read Together" workshops for troubled teens. The workshops are specifically tailored to the adolescents with behavioural disorders from Youth Centre Dugave, and the workshops aim to include the teens in the social and cultural landscape while fostering and strengthening their reading habits.