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...

From 19th - 27th July SCI-Germany will organize a Summer School on the subject "Anti-Semitism, Racism & Xenophobia in Germany & Russia - past & present" To view the daily program click here. Details...

On June 10th, more than 50 people, mostly youth, have joined YTNF film festival event in Lugansk. The program proposed films of the festivals organized by Goethhe-Institute jointly with Zukunftsfonds, “Gestures of reconciliation”, “All human beings are born free and equal”. As starter we had film from Estonia, by Margit Korbe, about difficult choice between family and gambling machine, is something well-known here as well. The story of Katsiaryna Kamockaya from Belarus, “Little Peter of great wood or good morning to everyone”, invited to see the war with eyes of a child, and how it is still possible to be human during the war. Details...

1st of June is the International Child’s Day. What do you need in order to make a child happy and to bring a smile on his face? How expensive do you think the happiness of a child is? Take one piece of BALLOON, add a VOLUNTEER, put some smiles with a marker and a lot of air (from your lungs) and you get a big smile on the beneficiary’s face. And all of this you multiply by ten the number of volunteers… by 100 the number of the balloons and you get a smiley park, where each child meeting with the group of “walking balloons” got his balloon. This was what AVI volunteers were trying to do Sunday, 1st of June in the Dendrariu Park. Details...

IVO “SVIT-Ukraine”, in cooperation with SCI Belarus and AVI Moldova, in the framework of “Youth Transcending New Frontiers” international project, are proud to present an international film festival, which takes place 22nd May till 27th June 2008 on the themes of human rights, combating racism, xenophobia and social exclusion. “Youth Transcending New Frontiers” film festival consists of series of film events, which will run parallel in Chisinau, Moldova, Minsk, Belarus, and also Kharkiv, Lugansk and Artemovsk, Ukraine. The goal of the festival is to draw attention of public, especially youth, to problems of racism and xenophobia, protection of human rights and social inclusion of vulnerable parts of society. Details...

We are pleased to announce that the EYF of the Council of Europe has today decided to award a grant to the Siberian Creative Group to implement their project "Nukher gathers Friends - promotion of human rights education among rural youth in Buryatia". Probably it is the first time ever that an NGO in the Republic of Buryatia has received a CoE grant. Details...

Chernovtsy is a regional center in Western Ukraine, along with Lviv is considered to be cultural center of Western Ukraine. The city has rich history 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 – according to population census in 2001 65 different nationalities are living in the city. One of the biggest ethnic groups is Jewish, and before 2nd World War Jewish minority was playing important part in the life of the city. Details...

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