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...

Or Environment and sustainable development in Europe: a challenge for Youth First of all it requires a group of people (slaves? Hm…, no, volunteers) from various corners of Europe, that will live together for a little more than a week sharing food, bathroom and trying to use the water in an ecologic way. Later on these poor fellows have to get acquainted with the craft: pilling, sawing, drilling, cleaning the reed (canne) and putting it together on an iron wire. Themselves they will learn to make some side products (bijouterie, weapons for hunting, musical instruments, what else?) limited only by imagination. Details...

Local activity in Ukraine in the framework of “Human rights education in practice!” project, which is realized by OWA Poland in cooperation with YTNF and SCI partners, with support of Batory Foundation and Soros foundations, was developed by the participants of the training courses Aleksandra Seliverstova, Maria Servetnik and Alina Gogodze, and is called “Look around yourself”. The first phase of this project started already in the end of November, immediately after participants came back from the training in Poland. Details...

SVIT-Ukraine has created a group in vkontakte, Russian language social network, with an idea to link people interested in volunteering, have online space for sharing experiences and photos, discuss ideas and prepare activities. http://vkontakte. Details...

On December 13-14 IVO "SVIT-Ukraine" had its annual meeting, in order to sum up the results of the year, discuss issues related to future activities of the organization, cooperation with local and international partners. The meeting took place in Kharkiv. Agenda covered report for activities of 2008, evaluation of structure and membership, coordination of activities, accepting new full members, becoming SCI branch and cooperation with partners in Ukraine and abroad, ideas for volunteer projects for 2009, preparation of group leaders. Other possibilities for creative input were common cooking, and of course SVIT annual party. Details...

November 25-30, 2008 Svyatogorsk, Ukraine 5 days – 5 topics – 5 letters Conflicts, racism – national and ethnic identity, neighbors in Europe, non-violent conflict resolution, and conclusions. These were the headlines for each of the 5 days of international PEACE seminar, which took place in Svyatogorsk, Ukraine, from November 25 to 30. The seminar has gathered 37 participants from 15 countries. Details...

Dear friends! We happy to announce that on 28 December we planning to organize Christmas party event for blind children. It will be realized by our social inclusion PMT together with activists from our partner organization “The Seeing Heart”. We had invited 60 visual impaired children from all Belarus. We plan to organize “Christmas Eve” story, also different funny games and interactive competitions.  And of course, It will be Ded Moroz (Russian Santa Claus), who will give different gifts to children. Details...

This we have tried to figure out during short training for mentors of EVS volunteers, which was organized in the framework of "Creation of Coordinating Centers on Volunteering" project with support of Zukunftsfonds Berlin. The training had very practical point - new EVS volunteers start their projects in SVIT in October. So together we have tried to figure out, who is mentor and why it is needed for a long-term volunteer, as European Voluntary Service. What are the tasks and responsibilities of mentor, what is his\her place in the project with the volunteer, and of course special needs and support of EVS volunteers. Details...

More than 35 participants from Lviv to Lugansk, Kherson to Kyiv met in Kharkiv on October 12th for some strange kind of Oktoberfest - not for beers, but to talk about volunteering. Open space gave opportunity for everyone to talk about volunteering under different sauce - what you prefer more. Some examples of such sauce: environment, activities with children, human rights and combating racism and xenophobia, how I spend my (volunteer) summer, ideas for short-term volunteer workcamps, networking and cooperation. Details...

As our large-scale project, Youth Transcending New Frontiers, will shortly be ending- and without wishing to pre-empt the results of the final evaluation conference - it might be an appropriate time to make a short, balanced assessment of what we have all achieved together during these last 3 years. Details...

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16