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Way Out Camp
Start date: May 15, 2016, End date: Nov 14, 2016 PROJECT  FINISHED 

The project of Way Out Camp was firstly realized in 2012 (in that time the name of the project was European Camp) when the group of Czech enthusiastic volunteers who work with youngsters came in Ukraine and got together with the local group of like-minded Ukrainian volunteers. They did summer camp for Ukrainian children together. This project underwent changes since that time. Participants of exchanges focus more on their non-formal education and camp is the place where they use their newly acquired knowledge, abilities and skills in practice. Camp is organized by people who are not the part of youth exchange and leaders of exchange group can fully paid attention to participants of youth exchange.This project will attend young people who already have worked or want to start work as volunteers with youngsters in their non-formal groups which are connected to local communities. This young people have a desire be active in society in this manner and they are willing to scarify their time for it. The aim of this project is provide the opportunity for further education and new experiences with youth from different backgrounds to volunteers. We would like to provide experiences from different context than volunteers are used to and thus broaden their cultural horizons, openness to foreigners and improve their skills and readiness to work with different groups of children and youngsters. We also want that the volunteers drew new experiences and ideas that they can apply at their meetings and leisure activities in the local communities. The objective of this project is to come into awareness of voluntary youth work, which is often underestimated, while bringing huge benefits the whole society.Project will attend 19 people from Czech, Poland and Ukraine. The exchange will have three parts. First part will be focused on non-formal education of volunteers in area of work with youngsters in leisure time activities. This part will be mainly focused on intercultural communication, exchange of ideas and obtaining new motivation for these activities because these are very important aspects of working with youngsters. The next part will be the camp. There will participants have opportunity to use what they learned during the first part of youth exchange. We perceive participation in this camp as the benefits from the perspective of specific targeted practice with the youngsters and the impact on local group of young people from the local community. Participants of youth exchange will develop their character traits as responsibility, patience and flexibility because the experiences from the camp. The last part of exchange will be focused on activities with local community with which Ukrainian partner works and this part will be also focused on evaluation of the project and its parts and self-reflexing of participants that they would realize what they learned and gained during exchange and what they want to do with these new knowledge, skills and abilities in their non-formal groups which are connected to local communities. With this project we want to encourage young people to active participation in society and taking responsibility for their lives and help others also achieve this independence. Youth Exchange will contribute to better employability of participants in the labor market. It will have a motivating effect for their other non-formal education and we hope that after the end of the exchange participants will search for ways to continue their education. Participating organizations will gain valuable experiences in organizing projects Erasmus + Youth Exchange and establish new contacts with other organizations in the partner countries. Youngsters from the local community, with which volunteers will work during the exchange, will improve their skills through a morning workshops at the camp, strengthen their independence, flexibility, courage and sense of teamwork. These campers will have the opportunity to meaningfully spend their free time during the school year with the Ukrainian non-formal group, which is a very good way how to protect them from potentially deviant ways of life, which they are threatened at this age.

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