Association of Voluntary Service Organisations:

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New Calls for Partnership

 

SEE EU - Sustainable Youth Voluntary Service

Sarajevo, 1-4 April 2009

 

AVSO plans to organize a partnership building seminar SEE EU - Sustainable Youth Voluntary Service, to bring together organizations from Youth Programme countries and from the South East European region to have a positive effect on both the quality and quantity of projects. The main objectives of the seminar are;

  • Foster partnerships and projects in the frame of the YiA Programme,

  • Explore alternative funding mechanisms and sources for financing voluntary service projects,

  • Exchange good practices in partnerships,

  • Promote and debate on how to develop innovative and creative projects, also supporting the 2009 European Year of Innovation and Creativity,

  • Contribute the increase in visibility, accessibility and exploitation of the YiA Programme,

  • Contribute tolerance, understanding and prevention of xenophobia, prejudices in order to strengthen social cohesion in the European continent,

  • Promote non-formal education ways as well as intercultural learning through different techniques to be used,

  • Raise awareness on role of voluntary service and active citizenship in building solidarity among cultures and communities.

The seminar will take place in Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina, between 1st and 4th April 2009.

 

For more information click here to download the information document. To download the partnership agreement please click here.

For any further questions and further clarifications, please contact bengi@avso.org.

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AVSO capacity building seminar on Health & Safety in voluntary service

11-14th May 2009

Brussels

 

AVSO intends to organise a capacity building seminar for voluntary service organisations, who wish to learn more about appropriate health and safety measures concerning voluntary service outside of the EU. The seminar will focus on the following issues:

  • Preparatory health measures prior to departure (vaccines, travel medical kit)

  • Information about the coverage offered by the insurance contract

  • What information needs to be offered to future volunteers and their parents (!) concerning health and safety issues

  • Safety issues linked to the extended stay abroad (travel, valuables, documents, mugging and robbing, authorities, reference person/mentor/supervisor)

  •  A collection of preventive measures concerning health during the extended stay abroad (drinking water, food, illnesses, insects…)

  • What to do in an emergency situation (who to contact, insurance company, parents, steps to take…)

  The seminar will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on the 11th - 14th May 2009.

 

For more information click here to download the information document. To download the partnership agreement please click here.

For any further questions and further clarifications, please contact agnes@avso.org.

 

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