Information about the partners

The project was implemented by several SCI branches and partner organizations: SCI Germany, SVIT Ukraine, SCI Austria, Utilapu Hungary and Youth Memorial (Russian Federation). At local level, Environmental and Cultural Center "Bakhmat" and newspaper "Province" were also involved in the project. Below are more details about each partner.

Interregional voluntary organization "SVIT-Ukraine" was established in autumn 2000 as working group on volunteering, and officially registered in November 2005 as local non profit organization, which is created for promotion, support and development of volunteering in Ukraine. Organization is active on the territory of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Lugansk, Kharkov and Donetsk regions and has partners all over Ukraine. The main activity of SVIT is volunteer projects on environmental, social & cultural topics, educational (gender and human rights issues, combating racism and xenophobia), protecting historic and cultural heritage, projects with street art and youth art, as well

as activities with disadvantaged children.

Útilapu Hálózat – SCI Hungary is the Hungarian branch of Service Civil International, dealing with short and long term voluntary projects inside and outside Europe, awareness raising on social and environmental responsibility, and inter cultural exchanges. This group of young volunteers aimed to make a difference in their daily life, in order to give the chance to become a volunteer for as much people as possible from Hungary.

Service Civil International – Deutscher Zweig e.V. (SCI-D) is the German branch of Service Civil International, which is active with national branches in more than 35 countries worldwide. SCI-D organises around 50 international workcamps each year and sends volunteers to workcamps of branches and partner organisations in about 90 countries. Besides those short term voluntary services, SCI-D also organises medium and long term services in Germany and prepares and takes care of volunteers going abroad for up to one year.

The Austrian branch of Service Civil International was founded in 1947 and has been active in peace and voluntary work for more than 60 years. We send and host volunteers from all over the world. Besides that, we are also very concerned about the intercultural aspect and about the sensibilisation towards people from other countries and other life circumstances. We think that all people can live and work together, irrespective of ethnicity, age, gender, religion, economic or social background, in order to promote international solidarity, non-violent conflict resolution and intercultural exchange.

Youth „Memorial“ is a non-profit organization in Perm, Russia. It was founded by the Perm branch of the international society „Memorial“ and was registered on 24 December 1998. Youth „Memorial“ is the leader center for the development of volunteerism in Perm, the region and other regions of Russia. Every year the organisation realises dozens of projects and attracts hundreds of young people to become volunteers.