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Longing for Indian Summer
And missing a warmer jacket – this was one of the points of recent PMT meeting of SVIT, which took place in Kharkiv on September 13th. Tea and coffee was helpful for warming up, as well as vivid discussions about past summer projects, upcoming events, ideas and proposals for the future, Dobre razom 2 and film on life of foreigners in Ukraine, planning Oktoberfest, starting projects with EVS volunteers and necessary preparation, activities on historic Jewish cemetery in Chernovtsy – completed and for the future, new partners in different regions of Ukraine, developing web-site as info resource on volunteering in Ukraine, PEACE seminar, and main big question mark – what will happen with YTNF 2. As result, new haircut, fresh brain wash and nearly missing dinner. And cold autumn rain next day – we still hope for Indian summer!
In the city of Kharkov, Ukraine, 10 volunteers representing 8 countries met for Dobre Razom 2 workcamp presented by SVIT Ukraine (www.svit-ukraine.org). This project was a sequel to Dobre Razom, a project which taught the negative effects of stereotypes and how to overcome them to school children in Lvov and Kharkov, Ukraine. The goal for this year’s project was much different yet very simple. With one professional camera, 10 active volunteers with the help of countless people from Kharkov would film material which would become a video to be shown all over Ukraine to reduce the level of racism and xenophobia. This was accomplished and more.
The workcamp started with 2 days devoted to the study of the topic of racism.
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Author:
Julia Myasyshcheva
Published at:
12.09.2008
From 27th July - 17 August, with the financial support of the European Union, SCI Germany has educated & trained 21 Peace Messengers from 13 different countries. Immediately afterwards, the newly-born Peace Messenger teams were able to put theory into practice by visiting over 19 international workcamps in Switzerland, France, Belgium & Germany, in order to run one-day peace workshops for over 200 young volunteers in total.
Each of the workshops was unique, having been put together and designed by the PMs themselves. They included diverse games, exercises, group-plays, theoretical discussion and confrontations with such issues as the roots of racism, stereotypes, intercultural conflicts, peaceful conflict transformation etc.
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Author:
John Myers
Published at:
06.09.2008
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