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Go for a Venture to become a Change Maker
Start date: Oct 1, 2010,

Youth - great force to change the world and make it more sustainable. Everyone can be a Change Maker!The Project is aimed to promote active youth leadership, youth education, young social entrepreneurs anddifferent youth initiatives in the context of intercultural and interregional cooperation in order to promotesocial changes in the society and the world and to foster intercultural and sustainable developmentcooperation in the youth field between two continents - Europe and Latin America through buildingcooperation/link between Latvia as an EU member country and one of EU partnership countries - Mexicothrough EVS volunteer's assistance in development of the Avancemos program and different other activitieswithin the activities of the host organization.The main themes of the project are youth leadership, education of young people, social changes, socialentrepreneurs, development cooperation, intercultural dialogue, cultural diversity, national and internationalprojects, team work and communication.Project includes one individual long term EVS project in Mexico with the organization Ashoka with theduration of the Service of 12 months and participation of one volunteer from Latvia.The countries involved are - Latvia and Mexico. Main focus of the volunteer's project will be the ¿vaneemosprogram of the host organization still also participation in different other projects of Ashoka throughout theduration of the Activity.The main objectives of the Go for a Venture to become a Change Maker! are: to encourage young people to take initiatives and leadership in different projects to foster activecitizenship, education, innovativeness, combat poverty, make a change in the world, and learn from exchanging ideas and experiences;- to work together for finding and supporting the world's leading social entrepreneurs.- to raise awareness to global challenges and the importance of co-operation between countries.
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