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...

In the city of Kharkov, Ukraine, 10 volunteers representing 8 countries met for Dobre Razom 2 workcamp presented by SVIT Ukraine (www.svit-ukraine.org). This project was a sequel to Dobre Razom, a project which taught the negative effects of stereotypes and how to overcome them to school children in Lvov and Kharkov, Ukraine. The goal for this year’s project was much different yet very simple. With one professional camera, 10 active volunteers with the help of countless people from Kharkov would film material which would become a video to be shown all over Ukraine to reduce the level of racism and xenophobia. This was accomplished and more. The workcamp started with 2 days devoted to the study of the topic of racism. Details...

From 27th July - 17 August, with the financial support of the European Union, SCI Germany has educated & trained 21 Peace Messengers from 13 different countries. Immediately afterwards, the newly-born Peace Messenger teams were able to put theory into practice by visiting over 19 international workcamps in Switzerland, France, Belgium & Germany, in order to run one-day peace workshops for over 200 young volunteers in total. Each of the workshops was unique, having been put together and designed by the PMs themselves. They included diverse games, exercises, group-plays, theoretical discussion and confrontations with such issues as the roots of racism, stereotypes, intercultural conflicts, peaceful conflict transformation etc. Details...

(August 27, 2008, Chisinau, RM) – Sharing experience of APM in Ukraine –  See pictures HERE Number of participants: 11+ 5 multipliers (AVI representatives to the APM in Ukraine), all volunteers in the frame of the YTNF project. Subjects presented: 1) Project structure 2) Project cycle of life 3) Resources (human, material, financial, etc.) 4) Financial management 5) How to present yourself and your projects to donors 6) Reporting &Evaluation 7) Crisis management Methods: brainstorming, posters, schemes, graphics, games, examples, slide-shows, discussions and others. Details...

During 4-15 of August, AVI Moldova together with the Center for children from Edinetz and, of course, with a great team of volunteers has organized a worckamp in the city of Edinetz. During two weeks, children from disadvantaged families, children with disabilities and children who where just willing to spend their time near the international team of volunteers, have had the opportunity to discover new cultures, learn dances and songs, practice english and do many other activities. Details...

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