Cultural Diplomacy
Start date: May 1, 2014,
Driven by the same ethic sense that led our Organization to write last year’s project, this year’s project has to be considered as an improved heritage of the previous and is planned for 20 months, starting from the 1st of May, 2014 and will recruit 6 volunteers from Finland, Italy and Poland, which will be involved in the activities for 12 months, starting from the 1st of August 2014 and will take place in the urban surrounds of Kyiv city, with a special focus on the deprived areas.From one side, the project wants to improve every volunteer’s personal and social skills, strengthen knowledge about organization and self-managing in working contests. On the other side the most important aim is to improve participation of Ukrainian young people from the local communities by promoting active citizenship and encouraging local and international partnership. This project will help to overcome stereotypes and prejudices among Ukrainian young people through intercultural learning, will help to integrate Ukrainian youth into the European community.EVS Volunteers' main objectives are the following: - Improving intercultural communication – Increase tolerance towards different cultures by discovering cultural differences - Rooting positive European values in Ukrainian society – Giving support to Ukrainian youth to get more knowledge about European Union, other cultures. In addition to abovementioned, EVS volunteers will have opportunity to promote volunteering with help of social media and sports, to develop and run training modules and workshops for school kids, to assist in preparation and implementation of international volunteer workcamps, to help in managing contents of website and Facebook group informing Ukrainian youth about volunteering.