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...

On August 20th, a group of 10 volunteers from Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Belgium, USA and Ukraine met in Kharkiv, in order to continue our investigation on racism in Ukraine. The idea of the project was developed during international study visit “Dobre razom”, which took place in summer 2007 in Kharkiv, Lviv and Kyiv. This year, the goal for the project is to go deeper in the problem, research situation in detail and compare with other countries, think of possible solutions. As a result, participants will make a short film of educational/documentary character, on racism and xenophobia in Ukraine. Details...

During two weeks in August 2008, a group of twelve international volunteers and three to eleven local volunteers from Chernovtsy cleaned together the Jewish cemetery in ul. Zelena, Chernovtsy. We worked all in all ten days from nine in the morning till two or three o ‘clock in the afternoon with around one hour lunch break. The result of our work is a cleaned field section 33 and two rows of field section 34 that follows behind field section 33. The field section 33 is located behind the “ceremony hall” and the grave field of famous Jewish personalities of Chernovtsy. We assume that we cleaned 2-3 % of the total area of the cemetery, a drop on the hot stone as the director of the Christian- Jewish cemetery said during a television interview. Details...

5 local volunteers from Chernovtsy have joined the international group to work on the historic Jewish cemetery, and more local young people phone and make inquiries as result of information in the media and public action, which was organized yesterday, August 12th, by the volunteers jointly with local NGOs. During the public action, international volunteers and activists of local NGOs "Dopomoga lyudam", "Narodna dopomoga" and "Union of active youth" have put up information tent at Sobornaya square in the central part of the town, and were distributing information flyers about the cemetery, talking to people and inviting more volunteers to join the cleanup. Details...

One can only speculate as to the reasons that drove the Georgian government at this particular moment to send its troops to attack its breakaway province of South Ossetia, or whether its closest ally, the US, has given its approval for such a step. In any case, after 3 days of heavy fighting, and the tragic deaths of hundreds of civilians and young soldiers, the status quo has almost been returned, with the possible exception that in the future South Ossetia will resist even more being ruled by the central government in Tbilisi. When both Georgia and Russia joined the Council of Europe they both solemnly agreed & signed the convention to solve conflicts by peaceful means. Details...

„Preserve your part of history!” – this is the motto for a group of volunteers from Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Germany, Sweden, France, Australia and the USA, who came from August 7th to August 21st to Chernovtsy to work on Jewish cemetery on Zelena St. Chernovtsy are famous for its multiethnic community, which peacefully united different religions, languages and nations. Jewish community has played an important role in development of the town, and gave the world such famous workers of culture and art as poet Paul Celan, sculptor Bernhard, poet Rose Auslaender, singer Josef Schmidt and many others. Details...

The first seminar: Poznań, 17 – 23 November 2008 & The second seminar: Poznań, 23 – 29 March 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS Background of the training course Since 1995 SCI Poland has been running the Educational Programme for young people in themes of human rights, refugees, ethnic minorities and combating racism and discrimination. Programme is based on conducting interactive workshops at schools for students, youth initiatives, local voluntary service activities and training events. Later it developed into large scale multi-annual education programmes involving many regional and international partners and experiences. We believe we gained the expertise we can proudly share with the others. Details...

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