The international volunteer workcamp "Strong - equal" on gender sense of justice of youth has passed in Berdyansk since September, 5 till September, 19. Details...

Thursday 21 September 2006 A few days after my adventure with ants and lightening came to an end, I left the Crimea and travelled by bus to a small provincial city in the Ukraine called Berdyansk. There I took part in a two week project aimed at educating young people about gender issues. I was one of a number of volunteers, from the UK, USA, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy. We stayed in a camp together next to the Sea of Azov and visited a number of local universities and schools and prepared workshops and led discussions about gender issues in the Ukraine and elsewhere. I found myself doing things that I thought I would never do, like facilitating presentations, and speaking to classes full of Ukrainian students. Details...

We have started active preparatory work for the workcamp in June. Main things were: to develop camp program, which you will find below contacts with the international volunteers of the camp partner agreement with Berdyansk State Pedagogical University on use of student camp and educational center free of charge for trainings, presentations and trainings for students, bus for excursion to Zaporozhje We have also got support from Youth Department and local administration. Details...

On 13th August, our all 3 PMTs had a nice outdoors meeting, in order to consolidate the team. After a short description of each of us, of AVI-Moldova and YTNF projects for those that were new, we had organized a brainstorming of our future project ideas. The weather was fine, so we had the occasion to practice some sports, like volleyball or badminton and to admire Valea Trandafirilor’s view. This meeting was an opportune impulse for us to continue focusing on achieving our goals. We had a really good time. So we are looking forward for the next picnic. Details...

We are pleased to announce that today we received our first individual donation for our project. Two long-standing members of VIA Belgium (Els and Willy Dries) have kindly donated 100 Euros. Many thanks Willy and Els! The money will be used to help finance the new YTNF flyer being made by the PMTs of SVIT-Ukraine with the help of Marilou Ruiter of VIA-Netherlands (so we can also say this is a combined Benelux support of our project...!). Details...

Hello, here are first impressions from Human Rights Traveler workcamp from participants. During seventeen days we visited four cities and three workcamps. Participants themselves developed workshops on human rights and later presented them for foreign volunteers. It was useful inspiring experience for all of us and soon you will have an opportunity to get acquainted with brochure of HRT! Here you can find our experiences, concentrated and filtered, so this may be useful for preparation of next traveling activities. Galyna This workcamp was not just about working – it was rather creating. From almost nothing we gained both knowledge and experience, and managed to start discussions about women and LGBT-peoples rights. Details...

We are still looking for two SCI long-term volunteers to work for one year in social projects in Moldova and Ukraine, starting on October 1st 2006. The posts are being partially funded by the EVS Program of the European Union. For further information contact info@sci-d.de. Details...

SCI Germany is currently organizing two Summer Schools for PMT members from SCG, Siberia. The first was focused on the theme “working with minorities”. The second, which will take place from 12.08 – 02.09.2006 in a former Gestapo camp (now a remembrance centre) near Osnabruck has the topic of anti-racism. Details...

28 JULY 2006, Kharkiv On the 28th of July the meeting of the PMT on Human Rights Traveller (HRT) workcamp (WC) was held in Kharkiv. The participants of the meeting were: Galya Uvarova (camp leader of HRT), Andrey Kurasov (responsible for HRT preparation), and Jasmin Sohner (EVS volunteer experienced in Human Rights education in school). Another camp leader Zlata Bayrachnaya was absent. Details...

Civil Society actors in the participating countries of YTNF wish to express their solidarity with their compatriots suffering from the Israeli-led and US backed invasion of Gaza and Lebanon. In the same breath, we also condemn attacks of Hezbollah on the Israeli civilian population and call for an immediate ceasefire, so that further losses of innocent civilian lives will abruptly halt and normal people can return to their homes & begin reconstructing their lives. War & violence are not the answer to conflicts. They only lead to further violence and further grief. Details...

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