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The project aims to preserve historic Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi, raise awareness of participants on history of 2nd World war and Holocaust with the example of the community of Chernivtsi and especially its Jewish part, contribute to development of intercultural competences of participants and raise awareness of local community of Chernivtsi about importance of preserving the cemetery.

In the framework of the project international group of volunteers from 11 countries will work together to clean the territory of the cemetery from weeds and bushes, prepare paths and install information signs.
Participants will also learn about history and multi-ethnic background of Chernivtsi, role of Jewish community and changes which 2nd World war brought to the city, and Jewish community in particular. The workcamp will be finalized with international youth seminar in order to develop common vision of preserving the cemetery and its memory, discuss outcomes of the workcamp and plan next steps and activities on the cemetery.

“Mirror of history – preserve Jewish cemetery in Chernivtsi” project is realized by IVO “SVIT-Ukraine” jointly with international network of voluntary service organizations Service Civil International and Jewish Diaspora of Chernivtsi, with support of the City council. The project is financed in the framework of “Memoria programme”, which is realized jointly by the Foundation for Remembrance, Responsibility and the Future and the Stefan Batory Foundation. The aim of the programme is to interest young people from Central and Eastern Europe for common work to preserve European cultural heritage.

In order to celebrate the international children’s day on 1st of June in Artemovsk, also SVIT Ukraine was actively involved in organizing special games for the children in the central park. Our ecological ‘corridor of perception’ was a funny challenge for a lot of children participating in it. With blinded eyes their senses were tested in three kinds of disciplines. Firstly, the children had to walk over different natural materials, such as sand, dried grass or step into water. Then, they had to touch different soils and guess which one it is. Especially, the third discipline was a funny challenge when the children had to smell different spices and tell the correct name. Details...

Dear friends, Workcamps have central place in the activities of SCI, and camp leaders, or coordinators, or teamers are in the center of them, in their turn. With this training, we aim to develop leadership capacities of SCI activists and prepare them for their role in international volunteer workcamps and youth exchanges. The training will include theoretical info and practical exercises, simulations and games. International group of participants will provide a chance to see in practice, how international group is developing, communicating, working together (on the training sessions), and of course having fun. Details...