International Volunteer Day [IVD] '1o

International Volunteer Day (IVD) - (December 5) is an international observance designated by the United Nations since 1985.

The declared aim of this activity is to thank the volunteers for their efforts and increase public awareness on their contribution to society. The day is celebrated in majority countries of the world.

The International Volunteer Day is marked by many non-governmental organizations, including Red Cross, scouts and others. It is also marked and supported by United Nations Volunteers.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Volunteers, this is your moment. Celebrate International Volunteer Day (IVD) 2010!

IVD offers an opportunity for volunteer organizations and individual volunteers to make visible their contributions - at local, national and international levels - to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

Over the years, rallies, parades, community volunteering projects, environmental awareness, free medical care and advocacy campaigns have all featured prominently on IVD.

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_through the Online Volunteering service volunteers can take action for sustainable human development by supporting the activities of development organizations over the Internet. Every day thousands of people are volunteering, online or on-site, contributing to peace and development and working to achieve the MDGs.

Share your IVD ideas, events and resources.

from World Volunteer Web

well, I'll not share story connected with the United Nation program for volunteering or I'll not tell stories about been working in Africa and saving kids suffering from poverty, HIV/AIDS and other problems but here on this blog you can find a lot of other things that I do in Europe and are from the same character _ I do them as volunteer. Till now in my life I have had opportunity to work with different social excluded groups and this work give me motivation for pushing for more.. the #changes are here, we are the one that can make the change that we want to see in the world. I know I'm not so smart this were someone else words but for volunteering there is more then words that is needed. Ideas, free will, plan, capacity and yes motivation to make someone life better. I do my European Volunteer Service [EVS] in Together, France.

Working with Roma kids in my city is one of the things that I accept without regrets, every time. Making different activities for them and organizing events where they are the stars for me is one of the most inspiring time in my life. Also the work with kids and youngsters with different disabilities for a year in hospital as volunteer was something that change me as a personality.

Being surrounded with people who have more clear visions for the society because they already felt the negative results. Environment that we all need to create. The hours that we are free we need to use them, to make something that will make some one happy. Working with all this categories of people that have problems ia a good volunteer work that is respected or doing anything else that will raise the awareness between the people, This will be a good move for our CIVILization. Let's make good moves!

happy VolunteerS Day!

check them on facebook and if you really are a volunteer u'll like this song :)

"Volunteers" - Jefferson Airplane [Live at Woodstock 1969]

#twitterartexhibit in Norway

This is call for artists organized by the Norwegian colorist - expressionist artist @DavidSandumArt. He send this call on twitter for A real life Twitter art exhibit! and his main idea was to getter artists from all over, who will create card/s with their style of work and support the organizer in making a big exhibit in the city library in Moss, Norway. The library (bibliotek in Norwegian) is located in a part of town called Møllerbyen that used to be part of the towns industry (years ago).

I really like his idea, because he wants to make the expo, and our art works to be for sale but the money to be used in charity. The prize for all the cards will be the same, that was also one of my basic motivation to participate. And also 140 artist (the first idea), call via twitter in 140 characters, the final result, amazing idea that I waned to support.

..so far for the #twitterartexhibit he received art from 173 artists (few days left until the deadline, November 27th, and the wall that is made inside the Bibliotek it will be able to show 240 cards.

In the beginning I didn't know what to send from the things that I constantly made here in France but most of them didn't fit the size, so I decide to make one week of dynamic creative producing so I can have few works from which I can choose which to send.

I made about 20 paintings/ cards, acrylic on paper-board and for final there were 3 that were telling we are the one that we'll go. The other one that are part of this collection (private for now) you can see it here ~ #artExhibit.

This are my friends, my characters that will present @kihuPotru on this expo.

 I_Go. I; I_Go. II; I_Go. III;

In meanwhile, I had one more idea in my mind. Sometimes I made art/ painting workshops with the kids that are coming in the association Jacques Prevert. For me was perfect idea, in perfect time. I was doing my cards when the kids were inspired to paint with me also. I didn't wait a second after I had 4-5 kids around me. I take big paper and give to all of them one color in big 1l bottle. Every kid was having one color in his hand and brush in the other.

I explain to them that I want to have one big abstract painting made by all of them in 140 seconds. My idea was also in 140 moves, I had already 9 kids on which I was trying to tell to don't make more then 10 moves, so I can reach the number 140, not all of them listen and will stop with 10 moves. :)

It was workshop like start, go, go, go..STOP!

 Butterfly Wing

zen_mOOn

We repeat the process on 3 big paper-boards. For the new paper they were changing their colors, so they can have opportunity to express them selves in different way. I catch that in the box with brushes there were also some teeth brushes and some of the kids in their hands were having them. Pretty experimental for me, so happy about the idea for the exhibition as for the idea of this action painting workshop were the kids were making collective pieces of art.

more about the organizer and his art ~ David Sandum Art

_my EUr.opean Diary

One of the volunteers from Poland that is doing her EVS stay in Together as me told me about this contest few days ago. In the beginning I was not very interested because the things that were shared on the wall for the contest were not so inspiring for me to put the link of my blog. I mean in technical way: videos without any production at all, private photos that are not artistic and some blogs that are already ready made. ..

After a while I check the info for the contest better and decide that will be even interesting to write a bit about this contest and the idea of my blog/ diary. The idea about this contest in general is amazing, I would really like to see and read about the stories of the other young people from Europe who are doing their private or professional trips/ stays in Europe. As Macedonian for me this program of the European Commission open the doors of Europe for first time in my life and all the things that are happening to me in the moment are pretty new and I’m happy that I had the opportunity to come in France and do my EVS in Together.

In basic the idea of my blog is to write everything what is connected with my EVS stay in Together, France. I firstly start writing about the youth exchanges, training courses and other PR.ojects that our Association is organizing but as the time was passing I start writing about all the other things that happened to me here, in Europe.
I already wrote about some of the exhibitions that I visit, the theater shows that I attend about different designs that I’ve done for the needs of my organization etc.



In the period I’m here I start doing hours work for one other association in the city where I live. So I made few posts about the activities that I made in the association for kids and youth “Jacques Prévert”.

In my blog you can find also posts about my trips in Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Swiss and around France. All at all stuff connected with youth work, youth development, culture and art. The topics that I consider as important for my future development as person.

Enjoy reading! :)

*I really like and support the idea for this contest Youth on the Move [an initiative of the European Union]

Training course Youthpass: for a better recognition of non-formal education

From July o2 till July o7 in Novoli, Italy training course organized by the youth organization WIP - Work In progress took a place.
French group with me as a leader couldn’t reach the training on the July o2 .. missed flight in Brussels due to the large traffic jam in front of Luxembourg and Brussels was the problem that was not part of our plan.
But, we joined the group of young people from 9 different countries the next day after we took the flight which was almost in the same time as the previous term.

Italy is a beautiful country, at least I felt like that when after four attempts to get there, the fifth time finally I broke the curse.
We landed at Bari and then we took a train to Lecce. After a small walk through town, visiting the exhibition of Caravaggio, Luigi member of WIP take us from Lecce and with his car bring us to Novoli where really wonderful group of people together with the coordinator of the project and president of the organization WIP, Lara were waiting for Us with great satisfaction.

At the moment we arrived there was a workshop on the agenda for designing the largest Youthpass. I join them immediately and few days after with several participants we made our design that is "almost" a copy of the original, and there was another group of participants that made a great creative version of the Youthpass.
In the night we visit Lecce and we attend the White Night or on Italian ‘La notte bianca’. Huge crowds of people in the streets. I was delighted from the night lights in combination with lights and street lights installed along different buildings with architecture that fascinates. Various bands and stages on all streets in Lecce, street artists, performance event .. I will remember.




Excellent discussion of Youth in Action Programme, presentation of a youth initiative that is implemented by an organization in the region Apulia, a photo and a video animation. New graffiti where we were accommodated ~ Centro Madonna di Lourdes, logo WIP few meters below the wall .. victory win at the Campus, that is regularly held there. We participate only in one of the games after the organizers gave us permission to participate, colorful team managed to win and give us a special motivation in communication with the local youngsters.

The visit of the beach and the excellent weather were perfect shot.

here are:
the blog of this Training Course Youthpass: for a Better Recognition of Non Formal Education
the picassa web album with all the pics from there.
the facebook event for this TC
the page of the organisation organizer of this exchange
and
also few articles about the exchange:
Lecce - YOUTH IN ACTION - GIOVANI EUROPEI PIU’ ATTIVI E MOBILI puglialive.net
Lecce - YOUTH IN ACTION - GIOVANI EUROPEI PIU' ATTIVI E MOBILI san-pietro-vernotico.virgilio.it
YOUTH IN ACTION GIOVANI EUROPEI PIU' ATTIVI E MOBILI polveredistellelecce.it
“Youth in action” per una gioventù consapevole C.S.V.S. - Centro Servizi Volontariato Salento
Youth in Action: un corso di formazione peer to peer leccenews24.it

..here is the video of the game where the colorful team w.IN!
Videoclip - Campus Giovani 2010: format EUROPEO