"Second Wave"
Start date: May 20, 2016,
End date: Aug 19, 2017
PROJECT
FINISHED
The EVS project “Second Wave” will start in May 2016 and last till 1 year in Birzai town, Lithuania. Project involves 10 partners, 6 sending organizations from Greece, Finland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Armenia and Russia which will send volunteers into three hosting organizations. Objectives of the project include improvement and expansion of activities locally for children and families and local youth - volunteers, creation of spaces for development of volunteers’ skills and competencies to increase their employability, exchange knowledge and skills in children and family free time facilitation, introduction of local youth with possibilities to gain valuable experience in voluntary activities, which may remarkably increase their employability, contribution in youth empowerment to become competitive in labour market, promotion of volunteering locally in Birzai area and internationally using social networks of partners involved.The main targeted beneficiaries are children, families and local youth tending to get more involved locally. Hosting organizations are Birzai museum, regional park and kindergarten and all of them highly value holistic attitude to person's development, so there will be big flexibility for volunteers to choose fields of self development upon their interests. During the project six volunteers will develop new educational programs for children and families and these programs will be tried out within the project frame, afterwards improved and adjusted to be easily used in similar organizations. In addition, volunteers will have activities involving local youth which will help to reveal the link between volunteering and employability. All the activities will be based on non formal education principles and will be directed to increase employability of volunteers and variety of motivating and practically useful activities for children, families and youth in remote area of Lithuania.