“Baikal for all!” is a voluntary service project for promoting social inclusion of disadvantaged young people (orphans & physically disabled) & aims to demonstrate ways of overcoming the isolation of orphans and disabled in Russia and promote their social integration which “Siberian Creative Group” hopes can become a future model for Buryatia and whole Russia. The project will take place near the village of Tankhoy on the shores of Lake Baikal from 16th July to 5th August 2011 and is supported financially by youth directorate of the Council of Europe.

After clarifying mutual aims & expectations, and doing some team-building exercises, the international and local volunteers, together with youngsters from orphanages and young people with disabilities, will have one-two days rafting to the Lake Baikal to the village Tankhoy and afterwards construct there a pilot ecological trail in Cedar Walk for the local disabled girl Sasha Remneva and other socially-excluded persons. Her life story is short. Sasha was born with cerebral palsy – cannot sit independently, swallow or talk. She has never been in the Cedar Walk, although it is only one km away.

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