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for You: W4U
History
World4U is a young and growing non-profitable NGO. It began to exist in 1997-1998
like a group of young enthusiastic people - all with a clear vision that international
communication among youth has a tremendous potential in raising intercultural
understanding, tolerance and creative peaceful life in the world-wide community.
In those ancient ages we started to arrange summer workcamps and send volunteers
abroad. With time it became obvious that this team needed to form a new youth
organization in order to put all its plans and ideas into life. Then in the summer
of 2000, the new Youth and Student Voluntary Association World4U started to exist.
Now (in 2008), about 2500 creative and bright individuals are united by the idea
of volunteering within World4U. We have representatives in many regions of Russia. Members
of World4U consider our organization to be young people's union in the form of
a creative laboratory / center of initiatives, with the tasks of: - collecting,
processing and spreading information on youth social and political activity on
the national and international levels with educational and awareness-raising purposes
among young Russians - both - individuals and organizations dealing with social
issues.
- initiating, organizing and running national/international events
(e.g. short, mid- and long-term voluntary projects and actions; seminars; conferences;
info-meetings) aimed to:
* promote social and political awareness, particularly
among young people,
* reveal cultural values of the community and social
integration between people of various life paths,
* reveal and eventually
to eliminate all sorts of social injustice, exclusion and intolerance through
non-violent creative communication of people (incl. those from different cultural,
religious, social, national backgrounds),
* give young people an experience
of multicultural community.
- creating, inspiring and supporting especial
spirit while uniting our efforts during any type of interpersonal communication
within the organization, which gives an opportunity for creative self-realization
in a respectful, loving and caring atmosphere of energetic, mature and sensitive
community. Workcamp Terms
Our summer international workcamps
usually consist of mostly 6-20 international and one or two camp leaders. Most
of the time the group of international volunteers integrates into a big group
of Russian volunteers.
Camp types:
KIDS - working with children,
usually 5-12 y.o. as counselors in summer children camps or so-called "green
schools"
RENO - renovation/restoration work, usually connected with masonry,
manual work, painting, carpentry and other minor assignments without any special
professional requirements
SOCI - social work with socially disadvantaged people/children
FEST - work as a part of a prep-team / technical group of some festival / celebration
/ exhibition
ART - project connected with arts and crafts developing activities
ENVI - ecological / environmental work Age limits are usually
from 18 y.o. and older, without any upper limit, but in some particular projects
there can be special age requirements. Insurance is NOT provided by World4U, but
basic medical assistance is always available
Workcamp language of all World4U
camps is English, sometimes knowledge of Russian is welcome.
Language
Foreign
volunteers should be ready that English is far less the case in Russia than in
Europe . Also remember, please, in Russia it is used Cyrillics alphabet and the
most of road signs has no Latin equivalent
For more information
on WORLD4U visit: http://www.world4u.ru/english.html way
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