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On 3rd March a French circus show by “Les Frères Kazamaroffs” took place in the orphanage “Malyshok” - a volunteer post of Tina and Deborah – our EVS volunteers from Germany. “Malyshok” is a home for 105 children aged from 1,5 to 7 and has been a partner of SCG since 2003.
For one hour children and educators were carried away to a magic country of Chevengur where now for a thousand years it has been prohibited to train animals. So now for a thousand years in order to earn their living the Kazamaroff family has been training things. Details...
Author:
Mascha
Published at:
03.03.2008
We are looking for trainers for the Multiplier Training Course, which is organized in the framework of “Youth Transcending New Frontiers” project (YTNF, www.ytnf.org ). The training course is hosted by SVIT-Ukraine, and will take place in Svyatogorsk, Ukraine, July 7-13, 2008.
We are looking for 2 motivated persons who can provide participants knowledge and skills related to the topics of the training course, make them familiar with what is project and how to develop a good project, place of the project in your organization, how to manage diverse resources in the project (time, people, financial), how to plan communication and team work in the project. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
02.03.2008
YTNF partner organizations SVIT-Ukraine, AVI-Moldova, New Group Belarus and Siberian Creative Group (Russia) are preparing a film festival on such topics as protection of human rights, fight against racism and xenophobia, and social inclusion. The festival, having same name as the project - Youth Transcending New Frontiers - will take place in May in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Siberia, and will consist of several non-profit film shows.
The film shows will take place parallel in Ukraine – Kharkiv, Lugansk and Artemovsk; and also in Moldova, Belarus and Buryatia. The film festival is targeted at general public, with main focus on young people, and aims to raise awareness on such topics as human rights, racism and xenophobia, and social inclusion. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
28.02.2008
We are happy to announce “Hosting Projects - What We Can Do” international training.
The idea of this training seminar was born during LTEG seminar in Finland 2006, and will now be realized with financial support of Youth in Action Program. The training is organized by LTEG in cooperation with SCI International Secretariat and hosted by SVIT-Ukraine, and will take place in Svyatogorsk, Ukraine, from 17.03.2008 till 23.03.2008
Join us in a small town of Svyatogorsk, lost in the forests of National Nature Park, to have 7 exciting days full of learning, interesting discussions and of course fun. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
12.02.2008
Within the frame of YTNF a second international training on project management will take place in Ukraine from 7th - 13th July 2008 hosted by SVIT. Detailed infos will be published on the ytnf site & a call for trainers & prepteam will be announced in due course. Details...
Author:
John Myers
Published at:
06.02.2008
Overcast weather and feeling sleepy due to it, being late and out of coffee. Probably not the best start for a successful meeting. But we had it. On the February week-end of 2 and 3 a group of activists met in Kharkiv to discuss what is happening in SVIT in the coming months, plan upcoming activities like YTNF film festival and training on project management, take a look at new SVIT web-site and decide about its future update and new features. Representatives of partner organizations “Pechenegy” and “Friends of Gomolshansky forest” joined part of the meeting. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
06.02.2008
For further Info about this upcoming event, please refer to the Belarus page (under "future activities)!. Details...
Author:
John Myers
Published at:
31.01.2008
When part of the world was actively preparing for Christmas, and the other part was actively finalizing all possible things and looking forward to New Year night, we were having our fundraising training. Small group of volunteers met in Svyatogorsk on December 14th to have five intensive days of learning program. Our trainer Oleg Grishin from Youth Employment Center (Donetsk) has prepared extensive program, covering such issues as strategic planning, branding and PR, different types of donors and how to work with them, differences and similarities of fundraising from governmental and business at local level, and international foundations; reporting and communication with donors. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
24.01.2008
This year some volunteers of SVIT have joined the traditional for ECC “Bakhmat” ethno-cultural trip to a village of Zvanivka, located in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. The special thing about this village is, that half of its residents are ‘native’ for Donetsk region, and half of them are coming from somewhere what is Poland now. After 2nd World War, when USSR and Poland were fixing countries’ territories, some Ukrainian land was given to Poland and the other way around – of course without people. They were moved elsewhere, as complete villages. In Zvanivka ‘native’ and ‘western’ Ukrainians peacefully coexist already for about 50 years. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
14.01.2008
On December 31st, when everyone was busy with preparing for New Year, a group of volunteers in Artemovsk was busy preparing something different – a New Year celebration for orphans at the special boarding school for mentally disabled children in Paraskoveyevka. Two local companies have generously provided presents for the children – sets with stationery from “Altair” Ltd., and fruits from Artemovsk Trade Complex. Details...
Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
14.01.2008
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