Completed projects

„I'm whit you, be with me – 3“

Project: „I'm whit you, be with me – 3“
Founded by: National Centre for Youth Initiatives, within the programme “Youth in Action”
Action 2: European volunteer service
Duration of the project:25.08.2011 – 18.12.2011

The name of the project relates to the encounter between the four volunteers from the Focus Association and the town of Pazardjik (Bulgaria). The volunteers are from Armenia, Serbia, Austria and Italy. They will take part in educational activities and provide pedagogical services.Their role and tasks will be decided according to their abilities and skills. The volunteers will always work under the supervision of a tutor or a rehabilitation therapist. The volunteers will have the possibility to present their own country and culture through cooking their traditional food, preparing for small exhibitions or slide-shows and other activities. They will take part in educational and instructive activities, such as helping people with disabilities in making handcrafted pottery, cards, paper panels and so on. They will accompany them to visit civic institutions, museums and other public places, to go to the theater and cinema etc. They will attend to their daily needs, such as personal hygiene, meals and getting dressed. They will celebrate the Bulgarian festivities in the Daily Center for people with disabilities and take part in events organized by the association. They will plan activities to improve their leisure time, such as drawing, painting, playing and listening to some music, excursions and so on. Finally the volunteers will have the possibility to develop their own project, in accordance with the purposes and actions of the association and the Daily Center.

GENDER CLUB - SHE AND HE!

Project: "GENDER CLUB - SHE AND HE!"
Financer: Bulgarian Fund for Women
Period: 1.07.2011 - 30.11.2011

The main objective is to contribute to positive change in attitude towards equality by forming a club with equal participation of girls and boys / men and women / by the implementation of initiatives and outdoor activities / hepaningi, campaigns, workshops, presentations, lectures and research - focus groups, surveys / build tolerant society. This will use specific tools and methodologies to overcome social stereotypes related to gender differences. The main goal is to raise awareness on issues related to gender equality, gender discrimination. To help create a new type of social relations free of discrimination and exclusion. The basic objective of the project concerns the possibility to develop in various sexual feeling of belonging to the European community as full members and ravnopostavine people with equal rights and opportunities. The project envisages the creation of a specific set of tools for overcoming gender discrimination, based on the realization of activities in society.

I'm whit you, be with me - 2

Project: „I'm whit you, be with me – 2“
Founded by: National Centre for Youth Initiatives, within the programme “Youth in Action”
Action 2: European volunteer service

Duration of the project: 05.01.2011 - 05.09.2011


The name of the project relates to the encounter between the four volunteers from the Focus Association and the town of Pazardjik (Bulgaria).
The volunteers are from France, Croatia, Austria and Italy. They will take part in educational activities and provide pedagogical services.
 Their role and tasks will be decided according to their abilities and skills.
The volunteers will always work under the supervision of a tutor or a rehabilitation therapist.

European vision and new possibilities

The Focus-European Centre for Development is a newly established non-government organization, which arranges partnerships to realize projects within the Youth in Action Programme.
Focus members met some representatives of the Republic of Macedonia in Pazardjik, Bulgaria. Here they exchanged methods of good practice and shared their knowledge on working with people who live in unequal life conditions, on people with disabilities, and above all, on how to carry out a project.
The members of Focus presented their own country and its culture and introduced their partner to their objectives, activities and to all the staff of the organization.

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