Towards the end of 2007, the YTNF steering group created two new funds (Category A: small-scale grassroot projects and Category B: promoting international cooperation among PMTs) & subsequently launched a first call for project applications. Altogether a total of 8 applications were received by the deadline. Of those submitted, 2 were approved for funding, 3 were rejected and a further 3 were given the opportunity to be revised and resubmitted by the end of December, taking into account the critical remarks of the Jury. Details...

It was on January 5th 1968 that the election of Alexander Dubcek heralded the dawn of the famous “Prague Spring”, when - in the face of Soviet tanks - thousands of Czech working class people took to the streets under banners demanding “socialism with a human face”… Today, exactly 40 years on, looking at the global world around us, I begin to wonder if this slogan could be equally applied to the system that has since replaced socialism in virtually all former socialist countries of the world. Details...

by Lovis Assmann Radu Bajureanu, 33, Member of "Board of Directors" at Association of International Volunteering, Moldova Radu, why did you decide to come to this seminar, particularly to this seminar "Discover, Join & Act"? - well, in my country I do the same work, I want to share the experience, I want to gain new experience and I want to see how this work works in other countries and I want to see how far Moldova did a good job. So it was more for your personal social advantage as a leading work craft in the work you do in Moldova - yes Alright. Details...

Pre-story: during the "Discover, join and act!" festival some of the participants were interviewed about the seminar and impressions of some workshops they attended. Below and in the next articles you will see the interviews/Julia Myasyshcheva/ By Lovis Assmann Interview with Mariya Stepanova, 16, student, Belarus Why did you decide to come to this seminar? - because i wanted to make new experiences and get new knowledge and also to meet people and improve my English. Why particularly this seminar? - because I also wanted to hear about experiences from volunteers from other countries. Details...

International seminar-festival brought together 35 participants from Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Moldova, Switzerland, Great Britain, Russian Federation, Georgia, Belarus, Italy, Poland, the USA and Turkey to spend together one week of intensive learning, discussions and exercises, under the motto “Discover, join and act!”. The topics of the seminar were fight against racism and xenophobia, education on human rights, social inclusion and active role of volunteers in their communities. The seminar took place not far from the town of Liptsy, Kharkiv region, December 2-9, 2007. Details...

HR pmt organized a seminar in school # 63 and TV-interview on the occasion of Human Rights Day on the 10 of December. 20 active pupils from 8 till 11 grades the school took part in it. Now they are ready to start HR club in their school and asking for support. Details...

SCI Germany is looking for2 LTVs to assist in our office. Both LTV posts will start March 1, 2008 with a common introdution/orientation. 1 LTV posts will end August 31, 2008, the other LTV posts will end September 2008. The main tasks of the volunteers will be: LTV I: Placing foreign and German volunteers to workcamps in Germany (incoming) LTV II: Placing German volunteers to workcamps abroad in Western and Eastern Europe and Overseas (outgoing) · Helping to prepare the routine jobs, such as answering the phone & e-mails, sending faxes. So an important part during the placement is reliable communication with other SCI-Branches, partners and volunteers. Details...

· Social inclusion project (stage 1) , camp at the lake Baikal from August 1rst till August 15th. This camp we organized for Association of youth organisations. There were 35 participants, from different villages of Buryatia. During the week from August 1st till August 8th we prepared a program about Human Rights and related subjects for each day in the camp. First, we wanted to give an overview about the subject. The second day contained a training about civil courage; the third day was about mass media. · Social Inclusion project (stage 2), campaign on healthy life style. District of Buryat Autonomous Aginsk region of Chita region from October 22 till 28 th October. Details...

This was our final vote – and the voting was just formal, we were unanimous in our consensus. It was 2nd annual meeting since SVIT its official registration and 6th annual meeting since the organization was founded. And this time we grew by 1/4 at a time – very productive year. Other outcomes in numbers – 7 international workcamps, 3 new projects with long-term volunteers, first outgoing long-term volunteer, 3 PMT members are elected as board members of SVIT, among them the vice-president. All this was happening during the general assembly of SVIT, which took place in the framework of “Dobre razom” seminar, which took place in Kharkiv on November 17-18. Details...

Society, racism, acknowledge, fear, take action, reflection, stereotype, colour, prejudice, stigma On the 28th of October, 11 creative volunteers met to discuss the continuation of the Dobre Razom project. It started with a presentation of the study visit. Afterwards we discussed how we can create an exhibition and what we want to have in this exhibition. It brought us to the idea of public installation consisting of banners to get more people to think about the problem of racism. Details...

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