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Bring Europe to Ormánság!
Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Mar 31, 2017 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Sustainable Ormánság Nonprofit Ltd will receive 6 volunteers in the EVS project called Bring Europe to Ormánság! in Kémes. The volunteers are expected from Romania, Portugal and Spain between 1st of September 2015 and 30th of June 2016. In the past 3 years we have had 3 projects with 12 volunteers in which we upheld the European values and spread opportunities through active citizenship, intercultural learning, work in human and minority rights issues, freedom of geographical and social mobilities, information sharing and Erasmus + opportunities for youngsters. We would like to maintain strong cooperation with partner organisations and hope to work together in the long term with our future projects. The goal is to bring Europe; the European culture and values, the European youngsters to the Ormánság to help the local disadvantaged youngsters see the world through their eyes. During the project the volunteers take part in different activities. They organise international evenings to introduce their own culture. In the democracy workshops we discuss the European citizenship, social situations of the European countries and globalization. In the local schools (Sellye, Siklós, Vajszló) we run non-formal educational workshops with the volunteers about topics like sustainability, opportunities in EU and prejudice. We often organise different programmes (presentations, creative workshops, exhibitions, markets) in the Greenway Center, owned by the receiving organisation, to involve the local people. During the 10 months we organise monthly bike trips along the Ormánság Greenway. The goal is to involve locals so they can see the buildings and natural resources through the European view of the volunteers. Involving the local youngsters we take photos in the region, set up a diary from the pictures which is available in many languages. The volunteers can also try to grow plants in the small garden of the NGO. The volunteers are going to live in a small village in the Ormánság to get to know the rural life. The volunteers will learn Hungarian language at the beginning of the project, which helps their communication with the locals. The receiving organisation focuses on the learning process of the volunteers, and at the end of the project we mention all the results in the Youthpass. The learning process and self development process of the volunteers are supported by the EVS coordinator, director of the NGO and the mentor. Professional workers support the volunteers own project proposal during the service, to have a long distance result after the volunteers return home. On return to their home countries, the volunteers can help the work of the sending organisation, spread the opportunities of the EVS project, express their own experience at open events. In the Ormánság we help to better the understanding of common european awereness, cultural and language varieties in direct and indirect ways
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