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...

Ukraine, November 25-30, 2008 Call for participants Dear SCI world! Drop your classes, leave your jobs, families and friends - it's time for the most wanted FINAL YTNF CONFERENCE!!! Why? Because we all want to evaluate 3 years of challenges and successes, share our achievements and disappointments, all the joy and anger… and to draft possible next steps of our cooperation. Details...

Discussion on HR and peculiarities of “sovereign democracy” took place in the Buryat State University on August, 28. Students of the History department and volunteers of the international workcamp “Nukher gathers friends” took part in the discussion. A Documentary “Ploshcha” (“Square”) by Belarusian director Yury Khashchevatsky devoted to the Minsk maidan after the presidential elections in spring 2006, that was shown before the discussion, aroused a lot of contradictory opinions. According to the students from Ulan-Ude, the film was too propagandistic. Details...

A politcafe “Alcoholism: is there a way out?” took place in Ulan-Ude in the Museum of Culture and Art of Buryatia on the 3 July 2008. Organized by the social inclusion PMT, Regional Union of Young Scholars and Human Rights Movement “Erkhe”, it gathered together around 50 people from different organizations, ranging from the Narcological Dispanser to the Ministry of Interior. According to the definition by World Health Organization, alcoholism is a chronic, fatally dangerous and non-curable disease characterized by pathological physiological and psychological dependency on alcohol. Alcoholism is one of the gravest problems in Buryatia responsible for increasing death and traumatism rates as well as serious family and personal problems. Details...

From the 27th of July to 12th of August a group of 10 international volunteers came to Ukraine in order to organize activities for the handicapped people coming to Raduga rehabilitation centre in Donetsk. Due to heavy rain and long trips, wet and tired participants arrived to Raduga center. After the participants changed into dry clothes and got a good nights sleep both the weather and the energy in the group got better as the workcamp continued. The first week of the camp the center was closed for renovation and no handicapped people came to the centre. This gave the volunteers plenty of time to get to know each other, brainstorm and plan activities for the following week and learn about SCI and conflict resolution. Details...

Autumn is traditionally time for summing up, collecting harvest and celebrating successful year. IVO “SVIT-Ukraine” is also collecting harvest and summing up results of the year of volunteering: international summer projects in Ukraine took place, several projects with long-term volunteers; Ukrainian young people attended international volunteer projects in different countries of Europe. And it is also time for planning projects and cooperation for next year. Details...

And missing a warmer jacket – this was one of the points of recent PMT meeting of SVIT, which took place in Kharkiv on September 13th. Tea and coffee was helpful for warming up, as well as vivid discussions about past summer projects, upcoming events, ideas and proposals for the future, Dobre razom 2 and film on life of foreigners in Ukraine, planning Oktoberfest, starting projects with EVS volunteers and necessary preparation, activities on historic Jewish cemetery in Chernovtsy – completed and for the future, new partners in different regions of Ukraine, developing web-site as info resource on volunteering in Ukraine, PEACE seminar, and main big question mark – what will happen with YTNF 2. Details...

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