Hej everyone!
Today we want to share a marvellous story that shows you how
since people get involved in EVS projects the adventures never ends. This time
was an opportunity for Edyta to continue her EVS life and she was availible to represented SPW
in an event after the end of her EVS project.
Edyta:
In the
beginning of December (7-11 December 2015) I had pleasure to represent SPW on a
seminar in Harsin, a small village a few kilometres from lovely
Marche-en-Famenne in Belgium. The Contact Making Seminar Sencitizenship
gathered representatives of organisations from Italy, France, Belgium, Moldova,
Greece, Czech Republic, Scotland, Finland and Poland, which belong to the
Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations. The project aimed at
sharing knowledge and know-how regarding citizenship involvement and
volunteering and presenting it in the Ideabook, a booklet with inspirational
and ready to use ideas.
During the
3-day-meeting we got to know history of the Alliance and its member
organisations. We also talked about formal and non-formal education, what they
are and how they differ from each other. By working in different groups we
designed projects which could be used for example on workcamps or in promotion
of non-governmental organisations. We worked from the morning till the evening
coming up with ideas on different topics. You will be able to get to know the results of our work as soon as
the Ideabook is ready!
Each of the
project we created is based on the WWOAW method:
Who? – Who
will be the target group of the project?
Where? –
Where will the project located?
Obstacles?
– What may be difficult in realisation of the project?
Advantages?
– What will be the benefits of the project?
What? –
What are we going to do? / What are we going to do to encourage people from
outside the organisation to participate in the project?
We also
experienced organising a Free Hugs action in Marche-en-Famenne. The initiative
was very interesting and the people met very kind. However, you can imagine
pedestrians’ faces when they saw a group of 10 people who wanted to hug them
without any reason. I really recommend this extraordinary experience as one
rarely have a chance to see such positive
reaction from the people.
At the end
I would like to recommend Association des Compagnons Bâtisseurs (CBB), a team
of great people who organised an excellent seminar. If you ever have an
opportunity, cooperate with them, take part in their workcamps etc. I am very
happy that I could met them and other great and interesting people engaged in
the idea of voluntary service and its promotion.
Hope you enjoyed the story. Thank you very much for follow us!
Love,
Angélica Camargo Flórez
EVS - Pułtusk 2016
EVS - Pułtusk 2016
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