Communities
All the
municipalities included in the N.A.R.E.W. Partnership are
characterised by a similar range of problems concerning the quality
of life on rural areas. The inhabitants of the N.A.R.E.W.
Partnership stress the rich cultural heritage of the area; however,
it is a social resource of a rather hidden character so it should be
brought into broad daylight and re-established to the residents as
an element of their everyday life and system of values. The next
matter that is common for the communities are numerous family and
neighbours bounds among the inhabitants of the villages of all seven
municipalities. An extremely visible phenomenon is the decreasing
level of social integration, especially problematic in the suburban
municipalities (for example Choroszcz) and its consequences (for
example the decline of bounds among neighbours, lack of
psychological and cultural support, formalization and
objectification of social relations, etc.). Activities, which might
be able to overcome these processes, are for instance the formation
of local organisations aimed at social integration.
An
alarming phenomenon might be a quite high migration level of young
people outside the territories of the Partnership connected with
insufficient cultural offer and lack of employment.
An
important element uniting the Partnership communities is the
awareness of a quite good condition of natural environment along
with the quality of the rural landscape. Simultaneously, a low level
of ecological awareness is visible, especially among farmers or
so-called ‘new inhabitants of villages’. The people of the
Partnership pay also considerable attention to the role of
technological transformation and deepening of the social inequality
called also digital gap, which is caused by a relatively weak
infrastructure facilities in the households, especially as far as
the access to the internet goes. Nevertheless, all the people hope
that the realization of the following strategies will contribute to
the equalization of different disproportions and will intensify the
level of social integration in the Partnership.
