During two weeks in August 2008, a group of twelve international volunteers and three to eleven local volunteers from Chernovtsy cleaned together the Jewish cemetery in ul. Zelena, Chernovtsy. We worked all in all ten days from nine in the morning till two or three o ‘clock in the afternoon with around one hour lunch break. The result of our work is a cleaned field section 33 and two rows of field section 34 that follows behind field section 33. The field section 33 is located behind the “ceremony hall” and the grave field of famous Jewish personalities of Chernovtsy. We assume that we cleaned 2-3 % of the total area of the cemetery, a drop on the hot stone as the director of the Christian- Jewish cemetery said during a television interview. Details...

5 local volunteers from Chernovtsy have joined the international group to work on the historic Jewish cemetery, and more local young people phone and make inquiries as result of information in the media and public action, which was organized yesterday, August 12th, by the volunteers jointly with local NGOs. During the public action, international volunteers and activists of local NGOs "Dopomoga lyudam", "Narodna dopomoga" and "Union of active youth" have put up information tent at Sobornaya square in the central part of the town, and were distributing information flyers about the cemetery, talking to people and inviting more volunteers to join the cleanup. Details...

One can only speculate as to the reasons that drove the Georgian government at this particular moment to send its troops to attack its breakaway province of South Ossetia, or whether its closest ally, the US, has given its approval for such a step. In any case, after 3 days of heavy fighting, and the tragic deaths of hundreds of civilians and young soldiers, the status quo has almost been returned, with the possible exception that in the future South Ossetia will resist even more being ruled by the central government in Tbilisi. When both Georgia and Russia joined the Council of Europe they both solemnly agreed & signed the convention to solve conflicts by peaceful means. Details...

„Preserve your part of history!” – this is the motto for a group of volunteers from Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Sweden, France, Australia and the USA, who came from August 7th to August 21st to Chernovtsy to work on Jewish cemetery on Zelena St. Chernovtsy are famous for its multiethnic community, which peacefully united different religions, languages and nations. Jewish community has played an important role in development of the town, and gave the world such famous workers of culture and art as poet Paul Celan, sculptor Bernhard, poet Rose Auslaender, singer Josef Schmidt and many others. Details...

The first seminar: Poznań, 17 – 23 November 2008 & The second seminar: Poznań, 23 – 29 March 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Background of the training course Since 1995 SCI Poland has been running the Educational Programme for young people in themes of human rights, refugees, ethnic minorities and combating racism and discrimination. Programme is based on conducting interactive workshops at schools for students, youth initiatives, local voluntary service activities and training events. Later it developed into large scale multi-annual education programmes involving many regional and international partners and experiences. We believe we gained the expertise we can proudly share with the others. Details...

Good deal of laugh, Spanish and Moldovan dances, Yoga, strange breakfasts (noodles with some meat?), some sun-burn and tan, some abrasions for brave swimmers who enjoyed the waves too much, lots of nice pictures, ideas, impressions, views of ancient Khersones – to be compared with the picture on Ukrainian hryvna. This we have as balance for Advanced Project Management training. Despite sun and sea, we had constructive working atmosphere, kept most participants captivated by the training, and put many spoonfuls of info on project cycle management, developing projects, managing time, finances and people, fundraising and crisis management, features of successful manager. Details...

WHAT? - the first "Change Cloths Event" in Moldova WHEN? - Saturday, 19th July 2008, 15:00 WHERE? - The park 'Valea Morilor' (Lacul Comsomolist), on the stairs, above Art Faculty HOW? - you bring the cloths that you don't want anymore. All the cloths will be cleaned and anyone can take other's cloths. WHOM FOR? - for anyone who wants to try something new, no matter if have cloths to change or not. WHY? - together we want to try a small alternative experiment, a social self-organized action where we can help eachother without commercial purpose or money ...AND...? - fill free to bring your musical instruments and to create a relaxed atmosphere at the event change.chisinau[at]yahoo. Details...

AVI Moldova in partnership with the Center for International Cooperation ULIM is organizing the film festival on social topics during 22-27 June 2008. The festival is organized by the volunteers from 3 countries (Moldova, Ukraine, Russia) and it rolls simultaneosly in the three countries films directed by foriegn and local directors. The Film Festival aims to sensitize the vision of youth on social problems such as:  - rasism - discrimination - intolerance - abuse - violence - social gab.  AVI Moldova invites all consumers of high quality films to come to the closing day of the Festival, which will take place on 27th of June at ULIM, at 15.00. Details...

Today, 26th of June, at the initiative and invitation of Tolerance Club Moldova, the volunteers of AVI Moldova plan to organize a nice national evening for the Charity Center for Refugees. Details...

Chernovtsy (Ukrainian Chernivtsy, German Czernowitz) is a regional center in Western Ukraine, along with Lviv is considered to be cultural center of Western Ukraine. The city has a rich history, architecture and cultural background (in different periods it was part of Turkish Empire, Austrian-Hungarian Empire and Romania, the city is called ‘little Vienna” or “European Alexandria” because of its rich cultural and historic backgrounds), and very multi-national community. One of the biggest ethnic groups is Jewish, and before 2nd World War the Jewish minority was playing an important part in the life of the city. One of the traces left by Jews is a large cemetery from 19th – first half of 20th century (6. Details...

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