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PARTNERS
CONCORDIA // FRANCE
Concordia is a non-profit organization, founded in 1950 and aims to:
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• Educate young people by allowing them to develop through cooperative learning.
• Encourage young people to experience new cultures through international youth exchanges, whilst emphasizing the importance of peace, friendship and a mutual respect for others.
• Encourage young people to get involved as part of a harmonious society, through actions of solidarity whilst developing tolerance for the environment around them.
• Contribute to development, through educating young people on issues regarding the environment, patrimony, tourism, society and gender.
Workcamps are a perfect tool to reach these goals :
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Participating in a work camp means working voluntarily during three weeks at a project of a common utility, such as environment, archaeology, culture, heritage. It is a tool of non-formal education, but also an opportunity to get to know the real life of a small community, as well as the culture and customs of other volunteers coming from all around the world. Every year Concordia involves more than 1000 French youths in its partner projects abroad and hosts around 1200 foreign volunteers on its own camps in France.
Concordia is a member of:
The Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organizations which is a network of 30 national organizations in 20 countries, CCIVS (Co-coordinating Committee for International Voluntary Service) which is an organization founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1948 and coordinates about 300 organizations worldwide and finally the national network COTRAVAUX.
The other activities of the association continue throughout the year with weekend or short holiday work camps, mid and long term voluntary service, integration of people with difficulties, study and activity groups (North-South, International), sending and hosting volunteers of European Voluntary Service. Concordia also organizes various trainings throughout the year along with local partners and international organizations. Today the management committee counts 15 members, there are 1800 subscribers, 34 employees and 200 activity leaders.
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Role in the project:
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Concordia is the leader of the consortium and in charge for answering the Call for projects 2017. Concordia will coordinate Prometeus in the activities preparation and implementation, but also at financial, administrative and logistic level. Concordia will also perform the Study Visit, send 2 EVS, 6 job shadowing participants and organize the restitution seminary. Concordia will manage the Erasmus+ grant, ensure the program regulation enforcement and prepare the final report.
LUNARIA // ITALY
Lunaria is a not-profit association, non-governmental body, autonomous from religious and political affiliations created in 1992. Our activities focus on IVS and mobility, EVS, trainings, intercultural exchanges targeting young people and youth workers, researches, communication, antiracism, gender. The organization has 12 employees, counts on a wide range of experts and trainers and in 2016 involved 800 national and international volunteers in the different initiatives and projects. All the actions realized aimed to empower the active participation of young people by stimulating their learning possibilities so to become able to act as promoters of new initiatives within their community.
Lunaria is member of the Alliance network and launched in 2012 a medium term strategy aimed to promote gender equality. Within this strategy, different projects in cooperation with European and partner countries organizations were implemented:
• 2011 SHAKING UP THE WORLD: Euro-African stories promoting youth inclusion, Action 3.2, to involve local youngsters coming from suburbs and slums in active citizenship actions through story telling;
• 2013 TAG CLOUD Respecting Valuing Gender and Generational Differences, a TC to develop new tools for youth workers so to promote gender equality;
• 2014-2015 JAMBO Young Women Empowerment to Improve Quality of Youth Work and Volunteering in EU and Partner Countries a KA2 to empower youth and social workers from Africa and EU, by providing them with new tools to favour the women participation in IVS projects;
• 2015-2016 PANDORA’S BOX Young Women, Community Development through EU and LA Cooperation, a KA2 to follow up the work already started in Jambo, developing work in the field of gender equality in EU and LA;
• 2016 THE POT OF GOLD Education and exchange to fight hate speech and discrimination, a TC and YE to raise awareness on the hate-speech wide-spread toward individuals and communities LGBT and to develop tools to fight the phenomenon.
• 2018 STAGED! Struggling Against Gender-based Discrimination through Youth Work in EU and Asia is set to answer the needs of empowering women and young girls in Europe and South East Asian countries, identifying and redressing power imbalances and giving them more autonomy to manage their own lives. The project aims to enhance gender equity and young women empowerment by providing youth workers, peer educators, local organizations and international NGOs, in EU and SEA, with new tools and methods to favour young women participation in projects and IVS activities.
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Role in the project:
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Lunaria will send 2 European Volunteers and 6 participants to a job shadowing visit to Ecuador and Peru. Lunaria’s member and staff will also take part to the training in Ecuador and to the seminary in France.
FUNDACION PROYECTO
ECOLOGICO CHIRIBOGA //
ECUADOR
Foundation Chiriboga is a non-governmental and no profit organization, does not have religious , racial and politic conflicts, legally constituted by Ministerial Agreement N° 47 of the Environment Ministry of Ecuador –South America on March 19th. 1999 and updated legalization N° 100 of the same Ministry.
Our main objective is the Protection and Conservation of the Environment, to promote development of the community whose activities, are related with the environmental scope and local economy development.
Help people to realize the importance of reforestation and agriculture in the area, with help of the community, international volunteers and the participation of the government institutions related to urban conglomeration, environment, life quality, equity relations between the population and its environment. We feel responsible in protecting the western Andean mountains forests remain, in the Pichincha province. We are actually protecting approximately 200 Has. of primary forest.
The Community development is one of our objectives, in this area Foundation Chiriboga chose the education like a way to promote the increment of academic level in the students of the primary schools, from country areas and urban conglomerations.
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Role in the project:
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Foundation Proyecto Ecológico Chiriboga is the organization who will host the training course and the long term volunteers in the Reserve of the Proyecto Ecológico Chiriboga. FPEC will also participate to all the training activities and host the participants of the jobshadowing visits on its international workcamps.
BRIGADA DE VOLUNTARIOS BOLIVARIANOS DEL PERU //
PERU
BVBP is a national youth organization, which develops voluntary service activities at national level.
It was created on 23 November 1982, as an Agreement following the 2nd encounter of mayors of the main cities of the Andean Pact (Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru), in preparing the bicentennial commemoration of Simón Bolivars birth date. Our national seat is in the city of Lima, with local branches in most regions of the country.
OUR MAIN GOALS:
• To train youth leaders
• To deliver services to the community as an answer by young people to the problems they are faced with and affected.
• To foster youth work as well as the integration of the youth sector in Peru
• To promote active citizenship and a sense of responsibility among our members
ACTIVITIES:
• Seminars and Training on leadership, personal development, youth participation, project management
• Campaigns to enhance awareness about health, sexuality, ecology, education, drug prevention, etc.
• Generation of youth micro-enterprises. We train young entrepreneurs to develop competence and skill development of young people.
• Social welfare: visits to hospitals, orphanages, homes of the elderly, shelters of children with HIV, vocational training, support to other welfare institutions, etc.
• Cultural dissemination: artistic exhibitions, visits to museums, theaters, etc.
• Exchange programs with national and international youth organizations.
• Recreation and use of free time (campings, strolls, internal tourism, etc.)
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Role in the project:
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BVBP will host the European volunteers, participate to all the training activities and host the participants to the job shadowing visits on its international workcamps.