Every time we’re asked how we started, we turn to history.
It was 2017, and the protests brought us to the streets. From there, into a café. A handful of people who didn’t know each other, but who felt the same frustrations and realized they couldn’t keep doing this forever—they couldn’t keep fixing things only when they broke. It would be better to put their efforts into something with a longer-term impact.
That’s how Forum Apulum was born, out of a desire to stop reacting like firefighters and instead try to build a world that “breaks” less often.
We support non-formal education, we confront uncomfortable history, and we promote critical thinking. We channel all of this into our work with young people; we try to do civic education in a less formal way. To expose them to relevant information and people, to dismantle myths or half-truths they carry with them. To offer them, really, transformative experiences.
Every now and then—more and more often—we get a message thanking us for this. And that gives us the energy to keep going.