Hej,
And again it is my turn to write the article on the blog. I hope it is not last time, I will write one more article before finishing my EVS, but before that let’s say what happened since my last article.
In the beginning of March I went to Stockholm for the midterm training. It was very nice to see the same people from the on-arrival course. During the training we had a chance to present our projects, to talk and discuss about challenges of your EVS and also how to make your EVS better. And of course we once again talked about Youth Pass.
Last week of March I took a holiday from my EVS and went to Italy. It was fantastic trip; I visited Pisa, Florence and Sienna. Italy is amazing country especially Toscana region with its beautiful nature, friendly and crazy people, and of course It is a culture center. Most important for me was that I met my younger sister there. It was good feeling to meet a family member after six month. I came back with full of emotions from Italy.
30th of March in Eurodesk office we had “Utvecklingsforum” for volunteers. My mentor Sara organized workshop about Swedish literature, it was full of information and very interesting. Jonas Agdur made presentation about Swedish political system, he talked about Swedish political parties and we also discussed about other issues of Swedish political agenda. Another “Utvecklingsforum” was on 16th of April about Swedish mythology. The presenter was Susanne Löfgren from Fjället, it was very interesting to get to know more about Swedish mythology, but unfortunately we did not have enough time, after that we had a visit of Dina Aziz representative of Egyptian organization “DNB” (Development No Borders). In Eurodesk office she made a presentation about “Arab Spring” and the nowadays political situation in Egypt. Later we moved to Lindhaga youth center where we planned with Dina future cooperation between “DNB” and KEKS for the project which KEKS applied for Anna Lindh Foundation grant. The project is mobile film festival on the topic of human rights. Youngster from Sweden, Egypt, Palestine and Jordan will be able to make short movies by mobile about human rights issues and present it on the Festival in Göteborg. Later will be follow up Youth Exchange project which will take place in Egypt.
In April we got the good news from Ungdomsstyrelsen, they informed us that “Skate Groups” Youth Initiative project “SK8 is GR8” got financing. So the “Skate Group of Youngsters” started the preparation. Group ordered materials for renovating the old ramps. On the meetings with “Skate group” we set the dates and from 1st of May we together started to work. Now we already finished built one ramp, many other youngsters started to came and do skateboarding on the new ramp. Soon “Skate Group” will fix all the ramps and later together we will have different activities. So everything is going fine.
In the end of the April we finished long selection process of next generation of volunteers, in KEKS Eurodesk and Grevedämmet. For the period of 2012-2013 of “MIYR 5” will be 3 volunteers, two from Romania and one from Macedonia.
Big event, “Volunteers show – Cultural Cocktail”, was on 27th of April in 1200 Kvadrat in Frölunda Torg. In January when we had a mentors-volunteers meeting volunteers planned different activities, in the end it was shaped as a show, where the audience saw different performances made by us, KEKS volunteers. The show was consisting with different dancing, singing and video arts. Before the show we had preparation phase started from February. During the weeks we were meeting in “1200 kvadrat”, planning, preparing and rehearsing for the show. During the preparatory phase we had some challenges and difficulties, but in the end we made very good show, everyone was glad and somehow surprised, we got many congratulations. This event showed us that we are good volunteer team, so we had a bit moment of proud.
9th of May was a day of Europe. Cecilia Rignell international coordinator in Mölndals Stad asked us to help organizing the event dedicated for the Europe day. With Cecilia we decided to make a Food exposition from the countries we, volunteers are from. So, on 8th of May we made a food exposition, in the main street of Mölndal and in the City hall. We presented food from Hungary, Italy, Georgia, Belarus, Romania, France, Turkey and Spain. During the exposition we were talking to people, promoting the Europe day and our project as part of Möndals international projects.
11th of May for me and Andreea was day of another trip for “EVS Inspiration Tour” in Marks kommun. We went to very nice high school where we met 30 youngsters and of course we presented “YiA” and “EVS” to them. Youngsters were quite active and showed their interest toward the programs.
15th of May was the deadline for the “Youth in World” application from YiA program. We decided to write the project cooperation with Spain, Sierra Leone and Liberia. We want to organize youth exchange in Sierra Leone in March 2013 “Youth for global health, inclusion and equal rights” and follow up seminar in Spain in July 2013. The topic of the whole project is health, human rights and inclusion. Preparing the application was quite a challenge, we had not enough time and had lack of information from the partners, but finally we did it and sent the application before the end of deadline. We will know the answer in August, so let’s hope that we get financing.
I was thinking not to write long article but as you see it’s impossible, despite I tried to make it short, anyway I think it’s enough for now, I’m going, need to prepare for the trip to Paris…
Hej då!
Ako
