We are learning how to make good projects from our Danish friends. Youth from Denmark worked for a couple of months to collect money for children in Lviv. Students cleaned windows, washed cars, sold some chips and cookies to buy children’s furniture and toys and bring them to the hospital in Lviv. [...]
We devoted three years of organizational life to finding and shaping our identity. Just as a small flower in the spring needs to be filled with the sun and water in order to make it through the snow, organizations in Ukraine need a reliable partnership and trust in order to [...]
Why volunteer? Do you believe you can’t change the world without seeing it? Or maybe you just stuck in the rut and crave some exotic trip? Chinese YMCA of Hong Kong has got you covered! They offer the exchange programme ‘Global Y Explorers’ with internship and volunteer opportunities for young people from overseas. This [...]
In 2018 Swedish NGO Läkarmissionen (LM) together with YMCA Lviv team led by Oleksandra Sorokopud studied cooperation of nongovernmental child care organizations CCC and Blagodat located in Lviv. In the focus of the research were children from families in complicated life conditions, orphans and children whose parents lost their parental rights. Influences of Reforms [...]
text by Olexandra Sorokopud What is Innovation at the YMCA? When you are a part of world wide youth movement it seams that the innovations should happen now and then all the time. Is that so? If yes, then what kind of reflection and evaluation processes are going on to describe the innovation and [...]
What are the strange habits of Ukrainians? What should you see in Ukraine? What you should know about Eastern-european eating habits? What surprizes foreigners in Ukraine? Students from Hong Kong tell about their adventures. They hiked through the Carpathians, were in the Chornobyl Zone and even went to Christian summer festival. [...]
Palestine is a wonderful country in the Middle East which I had the chance to visit in October this year. Even though I am interested in this region for quite a while, I, it turns out, believed in many stereotypes and did not fully understand what was actually happening in this land. So, in [...]
On December 15, 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden was held a partners meeting among YMCA-YWCA Stockholm and Gothenburg with Ukrainian and Byelorussian colleagues within the framework of "Youth embrace" program. This cooperation already lasts almost for ten years, supported by SIDA (Swedish International Development Agency). The purpose this one meeting [...]
Want to know what stereotypes about Ukrainians in European youth, Is it possible to cook dumplings in the oven, and what should be the perfect international youth camp? Then read!!! Enver Kaneev from Young Council YMCA Lviv talks about youth program SALM 2018 - Youth engagement in Europe in Strasbourg (France). [...]
#Be the PEACE you want What would you think first about Budapest – the former imperial capital of one of the most powerful state worldwide? Gorgeous landscapes, unforgettable views, marvelous architecture styles and cozy, friendly streets, welcoming you for a cap of soft BudaCoffee… No, first of all, Budapest for me is a unique [...]
