Plant Awareness to Grow Solidarity! ESC Volunteer Programme 2019/2020

Plant awareness to grow solidarity! That’s the theme of our volunteers’ new project this year. Three young people from Ukraine and Belarus will be hosted at our organisation and offer their insights and curiosity by hosting several thought provoking evenings over the course of the next 10 months.

This year’s project aims to strengthen young people’s engagement as promoters of intercultural dialogue and social inclusion across Europe. In times where rising financial uncertainties and undercurrents of right-wing extremism causing waves of anti-migrant violence and loom over a potentially vibrant community of European youth, we want to explore and debate innovative solutions to ensuring the active participation of underprivileged groups in civil society. We want to take this opportunity to share what we can all around and about social justice and inclusion, solidarity, anti-racist and anti-oppression community-based education work. Join us!

Here’s a preview into what’s upcoming:

  1. Nov 2019
    Presentation and Discussion: Belarus and Ukraine – our struggles for social justice there.
  2. Dec 2019
    Documentary Screening: LGBT Inclusion in Belarus
  3. Jan 2020
    Anti-oppression Workshop: Let’s work on Healing
  4. Feb 2020
    Facilitated Participatory Discussion: European solidarity in social justice movements
  5. Mar 2020
    Panel Discussion: ‘Mutual aid as an inclusion practice’ with examples for our Berlin community
  6. Apr 2020
    Workshop: Social Justice and Anti-Gentrification Community Work
  7. May 2020
    To Be Announced at a later date
  8. Jun 2020
    To Be Announced at a later date
  9. Jul 2020
    Presentation and Q&A: European Solidarity Corps and other Erasmus+ Opportunities

We believe that non-formal education, based on skill sharing in an international surrounding and peer to peer exchange will help us to build more solidarity!

  • working language is english. russian translation on request
  • for the workshops please register: eyfa@eyfa.org (subject line: workshop)
  • all the texts are available online. write, if you need one: eyfa@eyfa.org (title: reading)