On June 10th, more than 50 people, mostly youth, have joined YTNF film festival event in Lugansk. The program proposed films of the festivals organized by Goethhe-Institute jointly with Zukunftsfonds, “Gestures of reconciliation”, “All human beings are born free and equal”. As starter we had film from Estonia, by Margit Korbe, about difficult choice between family and gambling machine, is something well-known here as well. The story of Katsiaryna Kamockaya from Belarus, “Little Peter of great wood or good morning to everyone”, invited to see the war with eyes of a child, and how it is still possible to be human during the war. Details...

1st of June is the International Child’s Day. What do you need in order to make a child happy and to bring a smile on his face? How expensive do you think the happiness of a child is? Take one piece of BALLOON, add a VOLUNTEER, put some smiles with a marker and a lot of air (from your lungs) and you get a big smile on the beneficiary’s face. And all of this you multiply by ten the number of volunteers… by 100 the number of the balloons and you get a smiley park, where each child meeting with the group of “walking balloons” got his balloon. This was what AVI volunteers were trying to do Sunday, 1st of June in the Dendrariu Park. Details...