Humanitas was founded in 2000. It is a non-governmental organization – a non-profit society dealing primarily with human rights and supportive action. Our mission is to raise awareness of global problems such as poverty, over-consumption, the gap between economically differently developed countries and, through education and awareness-raising, to encourage social inclusion and responsibility. Humanitas main activities are: global education, development cooperation projects, fair trade, child sponsorship (with programs mainly in Africa) and responsible tourism. We are a mid-level NGO according to the Slovene NGO sector, currently employing 7 people.

Humanitas has been conducting numerous global education (GE) intercultural workshops dealing with Human rights, especially prejudice, stereotypes, hate-speech, discrimination, diversity, migrations etc. in schools (for teachers and children) since 2000. In 2012 we started to work with Through Other’s Eyes methodology in strong cooperation with one of its authors Vanessa Andreotti. We implement more than 100 global education workshops and seminars per year on mentioned and similar topics. We also hold regular and continuous contacts with more than 30 schools, which means they get back to us every year while planning for the next school year. Otherwise we have cooperated with more than 150 schools throughout Slovenia and abroad.

On the international level, we are active in the EPTO (European peer training organization) network, which organizes anti discrimination and diversity trainings for future and already existing trainers and we are a national representative in CONCORD HUB 4 working group on global citizenship education and public engagement.

Humanitas’s main field of work is global education, but an essential topic included under GE is also intercultural and human rights education together with education for diversity. In this way all of our international GE projects also covered the topics of migration, anti-discrimination and diversity.

Website: Homepage – Društvo Humanitas