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Volunteer for Change
Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project "Volunteer for change" will take place in Kekava, Latvia, and will have a duration of 14 months. It is a partnership between Solis Tuvak and Asociatia Fluturele Visator. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on the mobility possibilities assured by the Erasmus + program. The context of the activities refers to the need of Solis Tuvak’s development. It is inserted in the European context of the development of youth workers and the development of the EU. Coming from a European context related to youth migration and discrimination, through this project we want to promote, among other things, inter-cultural understanding and decrease the level of discrimination between young people. The objectives of the activities refer to include at least 1 volunteer in Latvian society; to develop the skills of the local community in matters related to European projects related to social inclusion and to raise awareness on the importance of volunteering. The aim of the project is to raise awareness on the mobility possibilities assured by the Erasmus+ program. The objectives of the project are: - to include at least 1 volunteer in Latvian society; - to develop the skills of the local community in matters related to European projects related to social inclusion; - to raise awareness on the importance of volunteering. The project is planned to provide 12 months EVS activity to 1(one) Volunteer coming from Sannicolau Mare, Romania The volunteer is sent by our partner Asociatia Fluturele Visator. Our partnership counts for half a year cooperation on different professional level. After the skype conferences with the partner both sides common agreed that the volunteer will be sent based on his motivation of doing the EVS in Latvia the staff decided to write the application . The objectives for this project are to establish strong long-lasting relations for future cooperation, to give opportunity to our members and volunteers in getting life-long experience as investing in development of our target groups on daily bases, to have much more tolerant and self-confident future generation. For the volunteer the we set the following objectives: - life-long experience - working within new environment - learning and practicing different fields of youth work - giving new initiatives and sharing her ideas with others - getting to know the new culture and traditions - occurring new language skills - raising inter-cultural understanding and tolerance - understanding the importance of activism in civil society and volunteering - developing volunteer’s personal skills Objectives for local community are raising awareness of voluntary work as well as the importance of the active participation in civil society. And in vice-versa getting to know new people with different culture and background. As for general objectives we focus on participation of young people as we consider this is the core of all further coming benefits of youth activities are. For our organization the project will have inspiring impact to widen our work with Erasmus+ program and European Volunteer Service. To give the opportunity to our youngsters in our city to go abroad and get life-long experience in different fields of youth work. The project will have direct impact on our local community as the volunteer will be working together with the team which is organizing volunteer meetings , community holidays , festivals, exhibitions, presentations, sport activities and other outdoor activities which is basically attended by big number of people from our city with wide range of ages. As for impact on the volunteer, we consider the volunteer will be more empowered and motivated to use the experience and skills obtained during her work in our organization to use it in her own local community and organization. Also for sending organization is very important that the volunteer will acquire skills and competences in cultural field, as they can increase the awareness on this topic, as well to share to increase the awareness on this topic, as well to share this knowledge and experience in there local community .
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