Youth volunteering for Environment: Active and Hea..
Youth volunteering for Environment: Active and Healthy lifestyles
Start date: Jan 1, 2014,
YEAH involve 24 volunteers coming from 11 sending organizations throughout all Europe in 6 hosting organizations in South America (El Salvador), Africa (Ghana, Uganda, Gambia, Malawi) and Asia (India). Both countries that joined EU before 2004 (Italy/Germany/France/Spain/Portugal) and after it (Romania/Poland/Slovakia) are involved in YEAH helping the process of shaping and foster sense of European citizenship in a context that being so wide helps to find and appreciate the similarities among Europeans.Each service will last 12 months with 4 services starting the 1st of May 2014, 8 services the 1st of June 2014 and the last 12 services starting the 1st of July 2014. The main themes of the project are the following: health, social inclusion, education through outdoor and sport activities, environment, children and youth.YEAH aims to contribute to shape a more intercultural, more caring and more tolerant generation. For this reason the target of all the service are youth and kids thus involving not only the 24 volunteers but many more of them. The focus is on stimulate more active and healthier lifestyles starting from sport, outdoor and environmental activities.YEAH has a strong and wide intercultural dimension involving 4 continents and many backgrounds fostering tolerance and appreciation of diversity.Through environmental and educational volunteering and active involvement of volunteers YEAH aims to foster a more aware and motivated participation of youths in the society using the positive experience of the EVS and sport as a lever. Social inclusion is at the top of the YEAH’s aims. Education (through outdoor activities) and health are the two tools chosen to fight poverty and marginalization and YEAH aims to have a long-lasting impact both on the volunteers and on the youth and kids.
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