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...

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...

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