YTNF :: News

This is the time for SVIT to pack backpacks - August is the month to pick fruits of almost a year of preparation work for our volunteer projects. This year we worked hard to organize diverse projects on different topics: environment and work with disabled children, anti-racism, gender and human rights education. We worked with our local partners to plan and set-up the projects, evaluated past experiences, organized trainings for our members, discussed programs and activities, wrote hundreds of emails and made as many phone calls. Soon we will know, how tasty our plums, apples and pears will be, if we cared enough for them?

But before we start, there is just last preparation step - a meeting of our volunteers to finalize preparation of projects, which will be attended by our colleagues from SCI Germany John Myers, and OWA Poland Milosz Czerniejewski. We are half-way through our big adventure trip called YTNF, so it is a good timing to look back and see the way already made, and also to look forward to see the way which is still in front of us. And to care for new fruits to be picked up in the coming months. Mighty shadows of oak-trees and pine-trees of National Nature Park “Svyaty Gory” will be our hosts for July 28th and 29th, to help us hide from the summer heat and have existing and fruitful meeting together.

Want to join us in picking harvest? There are still some places available in our projects – you are welcome!

Was the catchy title Donetsk, “Lesnaya polyana” hotel, May 19-20 – place and date 22 young, fresh from overnight travel participants, including the prep-team who slept 2 hours to prepare the program This is what we have started with. We ended with creating great group atmosphere, where people felt safe and comfortable, focused for learning, open to different games, simulations and exercises. We covered all the topics planned, discussed future steps and got a lot of energy, ideas and inspiration to continue with volunteer work and international volunteer projects. We got new leaders enthusiastic about volunteer projects, willing to co-organize and contribute to them. Details...

There's no doubt that the Peer Education seminar that took place in Ulan-Ude in the beggining of May was really good. We [the participants] received a lot of useable and useful information on peer education methods and tested some of them ourselves:) What I really liked was that we got the knowledge and I dare say skills to work with peers that we'll be able use in very close future. Details...