World at Our Home

There are many ways to answer this question, but usually the answer is notamenable to a short, succinct response. For instance: Youth Exchanges is an opportunity for groups of young people fromdifferent countries to meet and learn about each other’s cultures. The groups plantogether their Youth Exchange around a theme of mutual interest. This is [...]

New friends in the world! From June 16, 2011 till June 23, 2011 we had a wonderfull opportunity to take part in Exchange programm YOUthink, in Italy. Each day was full of different activities, everything was balanced – we were playing ice breaking games, doing energizers, having workshops, spending our free time, having excursions and [...]

So far this year many young people from Rezekne have participated in seminars and youth exchanges in many countries across Europe. June alone saw three projects take place in Italy. During this summer there will be many more projects including a youth exchange in Hannut, Belgium where a group of young musicians will be participating [...]

In the summer of 2011 “World at Our Home” will participate in the Youth Democracy project “Europa Viva” in Braga, Portugal. As part of this project the organisations who are participating will create small conferences, in each of their towns, based on the themes chosen during the planning visit which was held in February. The [...]

Poster for Intercultural Evening

Between 18th and 20th February „World at Our Home” participated in an Advanced Planning Visit (APV) of Youth Democracy project “Europe Viva” in Braga, Portugal. In preparation of Braga being the 2012 European Youth Capital City, one of the objectives of the project will be to prepare a document with the perspectives of young people [...]

The start of 2011 saw the arrival of three new EVS volunteers in Rezekne, who join two who have been here since September. Two of the new volunteers, Salvador Lopez Conesa from Spain and Anne Kuehn from Germany, are working in the Centre for Social and Health Care where they are helping the staff with [...]

1-8 October „One Year to honour thousands volunteers, towards a higher well-being Europe” was a joint project between the provincial government Diputacion de Cordoba and Contact-2103, that recently took place in Cordoba, southern Spain, in which our organisation participated along with many other organisations from around Europe. The two goals the seminar hoped to achieve [...]

Already this year our organisation has been involved in exchanges all over Europe, with a variety of topics. In May we sent a group of five to Izmit, in Turkey, for the “Not Bad!” exchange. Between the 11th and 22nd of July, a group of 7 dancers went to Hannut, Belgium, for a dance exchange. [...]

Youth Exchange in Carcassonne, France 7-15 July Avignon is fairyland for people who want a taste of the pleasant climate and beautiful surroundings, as well as the delicious berries of the area. In two words Avignon is an intellectual rest. This year in the heat of July summer I was lucky to be there. To [...]