Empowering children for risk taking- children's participation as a health promoting strategy in the "Safe Schools in a Community at Risk" project

Following a year of armed conflict, the project "A Safe School in a Community at Risk" was initially designed to reduce a general feeling of insecurity in the children and their teachers, and to restore the lost trust of the multi-ethnic school and community faced with the crisis. The project was carried out in seven elementary schools in Tetovo, Macedonia. Here, Unkovska draws on the experiences gained in the project, and explores what happens in a time-span filled with continuous changes taking place in children's lives and their contributions to the life of the community.