Action 1 Youth for Europe Exchanges

Action 1 Youth for Europe Exchanges

Examples of Projects

with disabled young people / addressing the involvement of young disabled people

European level selections

2000-2002

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YTH-D02-274

14/11/2002

YOUTH Programme

Number of projects involving disabled young people /

addressing the involvement / integration of young people with disabilities

Projects by Action by year
2000 / 2001 / 2002 / Total
Action 1 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 9
Action 2 / 2 / 16 / 29 / 47
Action 5 / 8 / 1 / 9
Total / 6 / 27 / 32 / 65
Beneficiary: SYNDESMOS - THE WORLD FELLOWSHIP OF ORTHODOW YOUTH - GENERAL SECRETARIAT

SYNDEMOS is an international federation of Orthodox Christian youth movements founded in 1953. Through activities such as youth exchanges, youth leadership training, seminars, festivals, conferences, etc. the organisation aims to develop co-operation, communication, education and training for orthodox youth movements and theological schools on the basis of their common faith, with respect for their differences. The project entitled "Euro-Mediterranean Youth Encounter for Youth Initiatives in the field of Youth Policy" will take place in Amman, Jordan which will gather 40 participants from CY(5), DE(6), FR(5), GR(7), JO(7), LB(6) and UK(4). Participants will be encouraged to develop a course of action in order to promote informed and effective youth policy in their country, and to lobby for this proposal to be implemented within the structures of their governing bodies. This project is a follow up to the issues discussed during the 1998 Egypt exchange.

Grant:19651 €

Venue:Amman JORDAN

Contact:Rebecca HOOKWAY

Address:Eleftheriou Venizelou 59 A

15562 HOLARGOS, GR

Tel:301/65.60.991

E-mail:

Project ref.: 88508-1.2-CE-02-2000-R1

Beneficiary: FREIS KINDER- UND STADTTEILZENTRUM E.V.

Kiz Hamburg is an association that provides advice to young people, educates on the use of leisure time and also organises international encounters. As part of a new intercultural approach, Kiz Hamburg has linked-up with Turkish, Spanish and Moroccan partners in order to assist very underprivileged youths (9 from each country), and mainly from immigrant backgrounds, to meet in Morocco in order to help these young people discuss and gain insight into the various cultural, social and especially religious perspectives required for intercultural exchanges, although these have been challenged by the recent incidents portrayed in the media regarding links between German-Turkish and Spanish-Moroccan immigration problems.

Grant:46478 €

Venue:Maroc

Contact:Frau Anette MOHR

Address:Bartelsstraße 12

20357 HAMBURG-DE

Tel:+49/40/439.44.43

E-mail:

Project ref.: 88609–1.2–DE–19-2000-R1

Beneficiary: ASOCIACION CULTURAL JUAN BERNABE

The Juan Bernabé cultural association has been organising cultural activities linked to drama, music, reading for twenty years and manages the activities of the Juan Bernabé theatre since 1998.

Following exchanges organised in France and Italy, the promoters would like to carry out another exchange with handicapped youngsters from partner associations. This will take place in Seville (Spain) and will involve 35 young people (26EU: 11 Spain; 5 France, 5 Italy, 5 Greece / 9 MEDA: 5 Morocco, 4 Palestine). The exchange aims to bring together young people sensitive to artistic creation and expression so that they can prepare a musical and theatrical production based on work by Cervantes to be shown to the public at the end of the exchange. Work will involve workshops, town visits, a dress rehearsal and final presentation of the production in the Juan Bernabé theatre.

Grant:83066 €

Venue:Lebrija

Contact:Mr. Jose VERGUDO HIDALGO

Address:Apardato de Correos 49,c/Tetùan, n° 15

41740 LEBRIJA (ANDALUCIA) - ES

Tel:+34/955/97.36.56

E-mail:

Project ref.: 88837-1.2-ES 06-2000-R2

Beneficiary: ASSOCIAZIONE PER LA FORMAZIONE?GLI SCAMBI E LE ATTI ROMA

AFSAI is a non-profit NGO which promotes intercultural learning through long and short term exchanges with European and non-European partners. Their work is based on youth work volunteers deriving from participating in an AFSAI project as youth. AFSAI is the Italian member of ICYE. This project is an exchange called "Art as expression : a way for disabled youth to communicate beyond languages". It will take place in Cochabamba, Bolivia and will involve 24 young people, four from each partner country : Bolivia, Costa Rica, Spain, Italy, Mexico, UK. The project aims to provide the young participants with the opportunity to exchange experiences in a multi-cultural atmosphere and to introduce the possibilities that international youth work can provide for disabled youth in terms of participation and intercultural learning. Impact is envisaged by the integration of different social and economic groups, with an aim towards the expansion of knowledge of the specific reality of each person and also in the cultural terms, in particular of the integration of the disabled.

Grant:46024 €

Venue:Cochabamba

Contact:Ms Daniela LAPENNA

Address:Viale dei Colli Portuensi, 345-B2

00151-ROMA-IT

Tel:00/39/6/5370332

E-mail:

Project ref.: 88568-1.2-IT-05-2000-R1

Beneficiary: INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL YOUTH EXCHANGE
INTERNATIONAL OFFICE

"Eastlinks IV" is a multilateral project that promotes long-term volunteering in Estonia, Latvia, Poland and the Russian Federation. The Co-ordinating organisation, ICYE International, is a non-profit-making NGO based in Berlin that enhances intercultural learning through short and long-term youth exchanges combined with voluntary service activities. The sending organisations are AT, BE, FI, DE, IS, IT, SE and UK member branches of ICYE and Experiment in Europe. They will send 20 volunteers for 8 months to host organisations in Estonia, Latvia and Russia. The projects will involve working with children and young people - orphans, homeless, sick and disabled - and elderly people. These disadvantaged groups will directly benefit from the volunteers' contribution, as they will assist in developing recreational and leisure time activities, and they will break the isolation or monotony in the daily routines. Children and young people, in particular, will benefit as they will be able to practice or learn the language of the volunteer and get an idea of other cultural realities.The volunteers will get acquainted with a new country and culture and learn human and other skills through the projects, and they will be able to manifest European solidarity to marginalised groups in the host countries.

Grant:124355 €

Venue:EE-LV-PL-RU

Contact:Mr. Salvatore ROMAGNA

Address:Große Hamburger Str. 30

10115-BERLIN-DE

Tel:+49/30/28.39.05.50

E-mail:

Project ref.: 89147-2.2-CE-13-2000-R3

Beneficiary: IB FREIWILLIGES SOZIALES JAHR

The applicant organisation is the Internationaler Bund Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr Freiburg. Building on the experiences of a previous project, which also took place in Jerusalem, they want to further develop their activities as well as consolidate their co-operation in order to establish an EVS network. They propose to send 14 volunteers from Germany and France to four different social institutions in Jerusalem, Israel. The volunteers will be placed in institutions, which work with mentally and /or physically handicapped people from young to old age. The work will vary from regular day-to-day support in patient care, but will also include individual artistic projects, in which the volunteers will help developing and running works that concentrate on artistic expression. Related to these workshops they will organise information seminars, events and exhibitions directed at the general public, which will present the results as well as the institutions.

Grant:61478 €

Venue:Jerusalem

Contact:Ms Andrea HEIN

Address:Heusteigerstrasse 90/92

70180-STUTTGART-DE

Tel:+49/711/64.54.413

E-mail:

Project ref.: 88767-2.2-DE-02-2000-R1

Beneficiary: EGYPTIAN SOCIETY FOR INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE

AFS Egypt/ESIE (Egyptian Society for Intercultural Exchange) is planning to have a multilateral youth exchange in Cairo with participants coming from several national AFS branches as well as other youth NGOs. 55 participants from 11 countries (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Turkey, Sweden, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, Belgium and Egypt ) will come together in a forum to share and care for their heritage; to discuss and recognise common grounds and to tolerate and respect the dissimilarities and differences. Through combining, presenting and highlighting the different and contrasting cultural aspects alongside with different historical phases in each of the participating countries, the project aims at contributing to the Euro-Med heritage.

Grant:39446 €

Venue:Cairo (EG)

Contact:Ms Sherifa EL TABEI

Address:El Twawra Street – Dokki, 10

GIZA – CAIRO - EG

Tel:+20/2/760.61.42

E-mail:

Project ref.: 93605-1.2-EG-02-2001-R2

Beneficiary: EGYPTIAN FEDERATION FOR SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES

The applicant is the Egyptian Federation for Scouts and Girl Guides, a national official member of the World Organisation for Scout Movement that is operating under the administrative supervision of the Egyptian Youth Ministry. The presented youth exchange with the title "New Horizons for Scouts with Special Needs" will take place in Cairo with the participation of 27 young people from Programme and Mediterranean countries (8EG, 6JO, 6PT, 6De and 1UK). The aim of the activities is the development of methods for the inclusion of young people with special needs in the regular scout activities. The applicants are hoping to gain from the experience of the partner organisations on this field and raise awareness among the participants of each other's culture and peculiarities of local society.

Grant:20696 €

Venue:Cairo (EG)

Contact:Mr Antoine MOUSSALLY

Address:5 Shanan Street – from El Galaa street – Ramses

Po Box 1446 – CAIRO - EG

Tel:+20/10/514.51.58

E-mail:

Project ref.: 95339-1.2-EG-03-2001-R3

Beneficiary: ASSOCIAZIONE LUNARIA

This project is submitted by LUNARIA - an association which main sectors of intervention are immigration, voluntary service, social services etc.

The project aims to give a chance to 17 young people with socialising and psychological difficulties ( 6IT, 4BR, 4MX, 3PT) and their animators to come together and exchange experience in how to use dance as a tool for the social reinsertion of disadvantaged people and as an animation tool. This exchange will be a tool for the participants to express themselves, to improve their relational abilities, to increase their self-esteem and to get to know realities quite different from theirs. The animators will acquire knowledge in some dance techniques useful for their future work. A common performance, local people of the community of Foz Do Iguaçu -BR (the venue) will be involved, will be held at the end of the exchange.

Grant:19147 €

Venue:Foz do lguaçu (BR)

Contact:Mr Paolo MADDONNI

Address:Via Salaria, 89

00198 – ROMA - IT

Tel:+39/06/88.41.880

E-mail:

Project ref.: 95461-1.2-IT-31-2001-R3

Beneficiary: EUROPEAN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS PLATFORM

This is a multilateral long term EVS project presented by the European Multiple Sclerosis Platform, an NGO that promotes action programmes aiming at improving the quality of services offered at European level to people suffering from multiple sclerosis and to encourage their active participation in society. Thirteen (13) young volunteers coming from five different Programme Countries and Russia will be placed for twelve months in seven Social Care, Rehabilitation Centres/Clinics specialising in patients with MS (UK, FR, IE, DE, BE, PL, RU, RO, FI are the countries of the hosting and sending organisations). The objectives of the placements will be to develop Cyber-cafés in the centres and motivate the patients to learn to use the Internet facilities. Through this placement the volunteers will gain international experience in teaching and counselling while the patients will have the opportunity to explore an alternative and modern way of communication.

Grant:124894 €

Venue:UK/IE/DE/BE/PL/FR/RU

Contact:Mr Christoph THALHEIM

Address:173 bt 11 Avenue Plasky

1030 – BRUXELLES - BE

Tel:+32/2/305.8012

E-mail:

Project ref.: 94787-2.1-CE-09-2001-R0

Beneficiary: EXPERIMENT IN EUROPE

Experiment in Europe c/o CIMIC is a European level non-profit organisation, which aims to promote international understanding through the interchange of people from different nations."Building Bridges Towards A More Inclusive Environment" is title of a project that will involve 6 volunteers coming from IE,UK,DE,FR who will be placed in 4 different projects in Marsascala, Floriana, Ta'xbiex, Siggiewi / MALTA .

The activities of the host projects aim to develop equal opportunities for those people within the communities, who are disadvantaged, physically, mentally or socially, focusing on establishment of greater links and activities of an environmental nature. A system will be developed to exchange ideas, create greater awareness and participation between the host organisations and the volunteers in order to build bridges towards a broader, enhanced environment and lifestyle.Two environmental organisations(Nature Trust, Brird life) and two organisations working with disabled people(Razzett tal-Hibiberija, Dar tal-Providenza) are to interact between them and offer different opportunities to disabled people with the help of volunteers. The general idea behind the project is to initiate cooperation among the above mentioned partners to contribute to a programme of Nature Assisted Activities(NAA) and involve volunteers, to provide them with wide range of learning opportunities. The National Student Travel Foundation(NSTF) as the local project coordninating organisation in Malta will arange joint meetings for all the volunteers in addition to on-going project evaluation and support . Volunteers have not been selected yet, it is expected they will assist/take part in regular activities/projects of the host organisations (assistance to the disabled persons while having activities in nature/with animals/planting trees/ where all partner hosts+ volunteers are involved, is to take place, nature promo actions/ bird wild life protection, etc.).

Grant:36986 €

Venue:MT

Contact:Ms Greet CASTERMANS

Address:Lange Ridderstraat 36-38

2800 – MECHELEN - BE

Tel:+32/15/21.98.72

E-mail:

Project ref.: 94813-2.1-CE-07-2001-R0

Beneficiary: DEUTSCHES ROTES KREUZ

"Red Cross Network" is the working title for the multilateral voluntary service project which will involve15 volunteers from the Red Cross partners in Finland, Spain, Italy, Germany and Lithuania that also will provide host placements through their local branches. The offered placements, 1-4 by partner country, will be mainly in the field of health care / health education and social work targeting children and young people as well as elderly. The project aims in particular to encourage the inclusion of young disadvantaged volunteers, and will build the support functions in the project with regard to their special needs. The project will run with an average volunteering period of 9 months in one year framework

Grant:194750 €

Venue:FI-ES-IT-DE-LT

Contact:Mr Thornas SCHAAF

Address:Carstennstr.58

12205 – BERLIN - DE

Tel:+49/30/85.404.226

E-mail:

Project ref.: 95985-2.1-DE-03-2001-R3

Beneficiary: INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CENTRE VILLA ELBA

"Fair Trade" is a one-to-one project with duration of 6 months. A Finnish organisation, International Youth Centre of Villa Elba, is sending a volunteer to the Maltese organisation, Koperattiva Kummerc Gust (KKG) Fair Trade Shop. The project aims to directly and indirectly raise awareness about the unfair world trading system between North and South and to suggest the ways in which it is possible to promote a change for the better. The aim of the voluntary service is to get familiar with the Fair Trade, as well as the volunteer's participation in and learning about the cultural aspects of Maltese life to acquire intercultural learning. The sending organisation is a youth centre working with the financial support of the Ministry of Education and it arranges school camps; international, cultural and sea activities the children and young people. The host organisation is a national, non-governmental co-operative society, which promotes development towards self-reliance and empowerment by establishing fair trade relations. The tasks of the volunteer include giving training young children about fair trade initiatives and to assist in the Fair Trade shop with the general work.

Grant:5247 €

Venue:Valletta (MT)

Contact:Ms Ritva SAARIKETTU

Address:Sannanrannantie 60

67100 – KOKKOLA - FI

Tel:+358/6/8313.400

E-mail:

Project ref.: 93646-2.2-FI-02-2001-R2

Beneficiary: ASSOCIATION FOR SOLIDARITY WITH ASYLUM SEEKERS

AND MIGRANTS

The Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants (ASAM), Turkey, present this project entitled " Volunteers On Noah's Arch". The applicant organisation is a non-governmental organisation targeting refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons regardless of race, religion, nationality or political conviction, and defends the human rights of migrants in Turkey. The major objective is to promote better understanding and to generate solutions for those problems encountered by asylum seekers, migrants and refugees. The project places one volunteer coming from Turkey into the host organisation Arca Di Noe Società cooperativa Sociale a.r.l, Italy for a period of six months. The objective of the project is to create a day centre for elderly people. This centre is to provide social assistance to the elderly through implementing animation activities, helping them in their daily needs, and providing social and psychological support. The project is meant to provide an exchange of experiences between sending and host organisations.

Grant:4480 €

Venue:Roma (IT)

Contact:Mr Adem ARKADAS

Address:Tunali Hilmi Cad. 79/20 Kavaklidere

06700 – ANKARA - TR

Tel:+90/31.24.26.03.19

E-mail:

Project ref.: 93653-2.2-TR-01-2001-R2

Beneficiary: "AHA" - TIPS UND INFOS FÜR JUNGE LEUTE, JUGENDINFORMATIONSZENTRUM

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"Aha" Tips und infos für Junge Leute, the first youth information centre in Austria, was opened in 1992 in Voralberg. It is offering assistance on any kind of question of young people on a 'help for self-help' basis. The host organisation is a caritative non-governmental, regional organisation in the St. Joseph's Institute in Nigeria to help village women, children and youth, especially the handicapped. It is based in a town of about two million inhabitants but works also in the countryside. The volunteer will take part in development projects and assist young people in their studies during the twelve months of voluntary service.

Grant:7630 €

Venue:Enugu (NIGERIA)

Contact:Ms. Virginie CAVASSINO

Address:Zollgasse 1

6850 – DORNBIRN - AT

Tel:+43/5572/522.12

E-mail:

Project ref.:92284-2.2-AT-02-2001-R1

Beneficiary: VOLUNTARY SERVICE OVERSEAS

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The project "VSO Youth Action through EVS in Russia" is presented by Voluntary Service Overseas, a non-governmental organisation with partner agencies in Canada, Portugal and the Netherlands. Their purpose is to give an opportunity to young volunteers to work with people who live in less advantaged societies. Through their experiences they would develop new skills and promote the idea for understanding, solidarity and equality at the international level. The current project will place five volunteers from the UK in three different hosting organisations in Russia. Two of them are working with children with special needs while the third one is currently active in the field of prevention of drug abuse and promotion of healthy lifestyles among the young people of Ekaterinburg. The volunteers will organise youth clubs and leisure activities, teach English and computer skills depending on the needs of the young people involved. Working closely with the local staff, the volunteers will have the opportunity to integrate in a different society and gain on a personal and professional level from their experience.