During the EurIdea festival 2007 in Wernsdorf several PMT members from Moldova, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine were interviewed about their involvement in the project, how they see themselves developing and about the future of cooperation. The lines below reveal us what YTNF is for its volunteers. Details...

Berdyansk, 5-19.09.2007 By Michail Eremeyev The aim of the workcamp “Strong-Equal” was to discuss with different youth groups problems of gender equality and gender policy in Ukraine and abroad, reasons for discrimination and future perspectives. “Peer to peer” principle was used in the activities. The project took place in Berdyansk on the Azov sea during so called “velvet season” (beginning of autumn when the weather on the sea-side is not as hot as in summer, and the beaches are not as crowded). Azov sea is also the warmest sea in the world. One of the main elements were meetings with young people and intercultural evenings. Details...

By Masha Servetnik and Anya Mazurchuk What, when – Paraskoveyevka special boarding school, Paraskoveyevka village, Donetsk region, Ukraine 13-24 August 2007 Who – Masha Servetnik, Anya Mazurchuk – Ukraine, campleaders Elisa Webber, Italy Alzebeta Chelmarova, Czech Republic Sien Gelders, Belgium Work – wallpapering, painting, helping with reconstruction of school, cleaning, collecting pears and apples, helping in the kitchen. We worked 4 hours a day. Every time when there was no work for us we were trying to find something. Food/accommodation – everything was provided by local partners. We had a room for living, but during 4 days the room was without electricity. We were provided with everything we needed. Details...

August 14-28, 2007 ♦ Today we came to Paraskoveyevka village. We got acquainted with each other. I am very tired now but I like this place and people which came here. ♦ Elisabeth says that she feels lucky because she is in good company and she is not anymore afraid of communication problems and she does not care about the building state, it makes it much more friendly ♦ It’s the people that makes special one place and not the place in itself. There are a lot of things I want to do and know about a lot of things I’ll find lot of answer and I am looking forward for next days ♦ Today was a complicated, but VERY interesting and productive day. ♦ I think that I have a wonderful company. Details...

Towards the end of October and beginning of November a series of strategic planning workshops have been taking place in all ytnf partner countries, the results of which will be published in the very near future. Excellent reports from the Peer Motivation Training in Ulan Ude and from the Group Leadership Training in Moldova are now available in PDF-Format and copies can be obtained by writing to the organizations who hosted them. Details...

By Maria Servetnik Helping with reconstruction of the school, putting wall-paper, painting windows, spending time we became Paraskoveyevka Team. The symbol of the Paraskoveyevka Team was a pear. Pears in Paraskoveyevka are really very tasty, the tastiest in Ukraine. Beside this that we were helping with renovation of the school, volunteers also cut pears for compote of stewed fruits. In the free time we were spending a lot of time outside, we were on a salty lake, which was formed on the site of former salt mine. On the salty lake there is a place with clay which has medicinal properties, so we were treating our “sick joints” (being 20 years old!), and building castles and different things, but as a result all this “looked like mess”. Details...

Of Anna Novgorodova The attitude of Ukrainian people towards foreigners really impressed our volunteers, because people are very curious about strangers and are friendly too. So local people treat foreigners as special people, try to make them feel comfortable. Sometimes they are even too pushy. What was great about Dobre razom workcamp itself is working with children. This really made a huge impact on me and on the volunteers. It’s an important experience and I suppose everyone should try it at least once in a lifetime, to see how it feels =) Plus, just seeing a country different from your own in so many ways was a great experience. Details...

On the 27th of October in Kharkiv the campleaders of SVIT met to evaluate this projects which took place in August-September 2007 It started off with the campleaders telling about their camps: what was working, how was the work, group life, communication and what needed to be improved. We also evaluated preparation of camps and campleaders. Afterwards we discussed together if we want to continue the same projects next year and what improvements and changes that needs to be done. We also started to think about new possible topics for workcamps for the summer of 2008 and agreed to make a public call for new partners interested to host workcamps. Some creative work was required before the lunch break – to make a written presentation of the projects. Details...

By Jasmin Soehner A nice café in the Armenian street of Lviv – all of our volunteers are sitting around a table, sipping at their excellent coffees or hot chocolates, listening attentively to a young man from Lviv, whom we want to tell us something about new (Western) Ukrainian history. Weather is fine, atmosphere relaxed, translator and camp leader Galya ready for translating our expert’s Ukrainian words into English. Nice guy, by look the kind of alternative people you expect to be interested in history and its critical analysis. Russian against Polish-Latvian Empire, Hetman, Bohdan Chelmnizkij, Cossacks fly past our eyes. Details...

@ Kiev/Ukraine, 27.-30.08.2007 by Sven Rasch Within the framework of the long-term project „Youth Transcending New Frontiers“ (YTNF, see: www.ytnf.org/) this training session aimed at providing volunteers of the „Dobre Razom“-project with basic knowledge on the issues of racism and xenophobia and to prepare them for the elaboration of educational activities in the respective fields with youth/students to be delivered in the first two weeks of September 2007 in the western (Lviv) and Eastern (Kharkiv) part of Ukraine. The session was supposed to be a kick-off for a group of 15 volunteers from all over Europe and the U.S.A. that would split shortly after the session to implement their activities in the one or the other city. Details...

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