Report of the Meeting “YTNF Future Activities”

Goal of the meeting: to establish the concrete steps for implementing the PMT ideas regarding work-camps in 2007.

Short introduction: During summer, even if the PMT volunteers had holidays (seaside, grandparents, camps), they also had time to involve in instructive activities: a Human Rights Workshop and two local seminars (Fundraising, and "Writing Project Proposals").  And now, after we all know how to write projects, and how to get funds for our ideas, we organized a meeting for establishing a concrete plan of actions.

Agenda of the meeting:

1. Announcing the contest for the best YTNF volunteer for 2006. Brainstorming: how does a good and bad volunteer look like in your vision.
2. Mentor contest: “I am the light of your life” for the 2 new EVS volunteers. 
3. How to become an AVI member or an AVI volunteer?  General Annual meeting – 25 November 
4. What is a work-camp? Discussion with participants (sharing experience of those who have already participated/organized a work-camp)
5. How to organize a work-camp. Basic steps – general plan of action.
6. Ideas for work-camps in 3 areas: Social Inclusion, Human Rights, Racism and Xenophobia. 1 person – 1 sheet of paper – 1 idea.
7. Each participant presents his own idea.  After having a big list of ideas, we have chosen the most realistic ones.
8. Three working groups are developing the chosen ideas, dividing responsibilities, setting deadlines.  Team-work.

The agenda was followed exactly in the way it was planed.

Participants have also contributed with some energizing games when it was needed. 

In December, the best YTNF volunteer for 2006 will be chosen, in accordance to the criteria listed by those present at the meeting. So, acording to opinions of PMTs, the best YTNF volunteer should be:

• with initiative,
• courageous,
• punctual,
• energetic,
• informed,
• active,
• communicable,
• original,
• sociable,
• creative,
• flexible,
• responsible,
• present at the meetings
• interested in everything is hapening within the project
• Coming to the office not only when he/she is called etc.
• Not inventing reasons why he/she didn’t participate in a certain activity.

Following these criteria, a committee elected by PMTs, together with AVI board, Regional Manager, and Consultant will decide who deserves the title of being the best YTNF volunteer. The prize will be one free of charge YTNF T-shirt, and the opportunity to participate in an international workcamp in 2007, in one of the European countries.
 
The 14 participants contributed with different ideas for projects:

• “Young Music” – integration of talented children from orphanages. 80 volunteers. Organizing concerts for gaining resources in order to buy instruments.
• “TIDS camp” – Tolerance, Integration, Diversity in Society. Project meant to bring village children in the town for 1 or 2 weeks, and bring town children in the village. Exchange of experience between youth, with the goal of social integration of disadvantaged children.
•  “Barefooted” – summer camp for children where they will be taught to become personalities (VIPs).
•  “Traditional Exchange” foreign volunteers will come to Moldova and together with local youth will learn the traditions of different nations.
• “Flakes” one week in the summer dedicated to social disadvantaged children.
•  “A song for a child” - 10 volunteers will organize concerts, and the money will go to organize excursions for children with disabilities.
• “Common school uniform” – organizing a work-camp where Moldavian children, together with bulgarian, gagauzian, ukranian, and other minorities, will create a common design of a school uniform for pupils from Moldova.

The most realistic ideas where chosen the following ones:

1. “The Nistru river Beach” – Author: ALINA SECRIERU, HUMAN RIGHTS PMT.

Period: august 2007

Location: Dubasarii-Vechi or Cerlina (a village on the Nistru river)

Short description: Fitting out a beach in a village near river Nistru, where children from orphanages.

Work: Cleaning up the region, collecting the garbage, cleaning the water, planting trees, bringing sand, building benches, painting the walls.

Number of volunteers: 14

Resources:

 - Human : campleader, 5 local volunteers
 - Materials : sand, wood, transport (lorries), paint, shovels, trash cans, buckets,  plastic bags, brooms, gravel.
 - Financial : food+accomodation – at local people
                        Building materials – local admimistration                         
                        Transport+others – Funding organization

Persons responsible for the project : Alina Secrieru, Carolina Secrieru, Stas Sajin. For more questions send an email to alina_secrieru@yahoo.com.

2. “Tolerance Street Theatre”. Author of the idea: Tatiana Luchianic

Short description: Organizing a workcamp in September which will have as a basic activity presenting the a thetre play with the goal fighting against racism.

A concrete idea for the scenario doesn’t exist yet, but there is an idea to combine dance with musical sound effects. The play will be non-verbal, the message will be transmited through mimicry and gestures.

Place: The show will be reapteated during 10 days, 4 times a day, in different places in the centre of the town

Accommodation: volunteers will live in a hostel of a theatral faculty.

Responsibilities:
Ecaterina, Olga and Alina will write a project proposal till 5th of October, Tatiana will write the budget proposal, will also search funds. Ecaterina wants to be a camp leader.

Email addresses of the responsible people for the workcamp:katruny@yahoo.com , tatiana@salvaeco.org

3. “Human right on the bicycles”
Partners: School councils, local youth NGOs.
Participants: 10 volunteers (5 international + 5 local)

Period: 3 weeks.

First week: the volunteers are all 10 together thinking of how will they find bicycles and what exactly till they do in the villages.
Second week: 10 volunteers will divide in 5 groups: consisting of one local volunteer, and international one. Each of the groups are going in 5 different parts of Moldova, and together with local partners, wearing T-shirts with Human Rights, and riding bicycles dressed like this and promoting a Human rights seminar.
Third week: Running the human rights seminar in 5 villages of Moldova. 

Conclusion:

The meeting was useful for all the participants because it had an instructive part, and also a practical procedure of establishing concrete plans of action for organizing 3 running 3 projects in the PMTs spheres of interest: Human Rights, Social Inclusion, Racism and Xenophobia.