Call for Donation. SCI Belarus with support of SCI Switzerland are announce campaign on collection funds for “Victim of Georgian Abkhazian Conflict” supporting Mikalai Kvantaliani fine. Dear friends, As you know Nikolai Kvantaliani, who is a member of board of SCI Belarus, due to participation in youth exchange in Georgia (30.06 - 05.07. Details...

PART I: THE STORY Dear friends, On 30 June I was detained, when I had arrived to Tbilisi Airport. On 3rd of July I had a trial in a court, and in the everything after accusation and paying the fine 2000 Lari (approximately - 1200 dollars) I was released. Sunday morning I arrived to Minsk. Safe and happy, but with the previous conviction by criminal article. But let's start from the beginning and let's follow the chronology of the event: I was invited on the international event "Democratic Citizenship and Youth participation", which was organized by National Youth Council of Georgia (NYCoG). Details...

In August 2009 for the second time a group of international SCI volunteers is coming to Chernivtsi to work on historic Jewish cemetery, one of the biggest preserved historic cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe. During two weeks in August, 18 volunteers from 11 different countries will work on the cemetery, removing the bushes and cleaning the tomb-stones of creeping wines. The work at the cemetery will be completed by a 4-days seminar (24-27. Details...

From 7th-30th August SCI Germany will be organising a German-Russian summer school on the subject of climate change. Topics to be discussed include, among others: - what are the causes and affects of climate change? - what can I, as an individual, or my organisation, do, in order to prevent climate change? - how can I, or my organisation, influence political decision-makers in this field? The first week of the school will be devoted to an inter-active series of workshops, keynote lectures and project visits, in order to exchange ideas & experiences among participants. Afterwards the group will be divided in order to support the work of different grassroot ecological projects in different parts of Germany. Details...

Although Moldova is steadily, yet too slowly, advancing in strengthening the awareness of such social problems as human rights infringements, xenophobia, racism, and gender stratification, very little focus has been on promoting religious lenience. Therefore, Association of International Volunteering in Moldova (AVI-MD) invites you to a one day seminar dedicated to promoting religious tolerance. Basic Info Since it is hard to tolerate what is unknown, the structure of the seminar will be composed of five academic-like lectures and one hour of yoga, whose purpose is to help you create an open-mindedness and understanding to the religious diversity of our world. Details...

The Raduga Centre is a unique day care centre for children and young adults living with disabilities of the 1st group (disabilities as autism, cerebral palsy, mental disabilities and other, which are ranked in Ukraine as disabilities of 1st group, the most difficult). The Center has been created as a result of a group of activists and committed parents who fought for it in order to give their children the chance of getting not only physically care but also to develop themselves mentally and do some meaningful activities . The Raduga Center is unique because in contrast to other state care centres, which only allow disabled people to live the life of ‘vegetables’, the Raduga Center gives its people the chance to develop their personality and skills. Details...

The project aims to preserve historic Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi, raise awareness of participants on history of 2nd World war and Holocaust with the example of the community of Chernivtsi and especially its Jewish part, contribute to development of intercultural competences of participants and raise awareness of local community of Chernivtsi about importance of preserving the cemetery. In the framework of the project international group of volunteers from 11 countries will work together to clean the territory of the cemetery from weeds and bushes, prepare paths and install information signs. Details...

In order to celebrate the international children’s day on 1st of June in Artemovsk, also SVIT Ukraine was actively involved in organizing special games for the children in the central park. Our ecological ‘corridor of perception’ was a funny challenge for a lot of children participating in it. With blinded eyes their senses were tested in three kinds of disciplines. Firstly, the children had to walk over different natural materials, such as sand, dried grass or step into water. Then, they had to touch different soils and guess which one it is. Especially, the third discipline was a funny challenge when the children had to smell different spices and tell the correct name. Details...

Dear friends, Workcamps have central place in the activities of SCI, and camp leaders, or coordinators, or teamers are in the center of them, in their turn. With this training, we aim to develop leadership capacities of SCI activists and prepare them for their role in international volunteer workcamps and youth exchanges. The training will include theoretical info and practical exercises, simulations and games. International group of participants will provide a chance to see in practice, how international group is developing, communicating, working together (on the training sessions), and of course having fun. Details...

While spring takes its course more and more actively, international volunteer projects for the summer get more participants - but also some new projects and activities are coming up. SVIT is happy to present a new project, which will take place end of July - beginning of August jointly with NGO "Ray of light" from Chervonograd, Lviv region, working with families and young people with disadvantages. During the project it is planned to organize free time and sport activities, excursions in the nature with disabled young people, and contribute to building play- and sport ground for the day-care center for  disadvantaged young people. For more information and application - take a look at SCI data base www.workcamps. Details...

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