SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE

The Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations is an International Non-Governmental Youth Organisation. It represents national voluntary service organisations that promote intercultural understanding, peace, democratic participation and equality, in the spirit of respect for universal human rights. Together, International Voluntary Service (IVS) projects are organised by Alliance members in partnership with local communities. Our projects engage the volunteer groups in a wide diversity of community development tasks including environmental, construction, renovation, social, cultural and archaeological work. Voluntary work is considered as a tool to improve active citizenship and democratic, political participation. The movement of conducting the volunteer workcamps started after World War I with the aim to restore the damages after war. So now, unfortunately, we had to turn to this initial aim of the volunteer project and launch the Solidarity workcamp which goal is to collect funds for the future workcamps in Ukraine which will be conducted after the war. These projects will be organised by two Ukrainian member organisations of the Alliance – Alternative-V based in Kyiv and Union Forum based in Lviv.