Maladechna. Republic of Belarus

“Strive to Drive”

YOUTH EXCHANGE

Belarus, Maladechna

23. 05 – 01. 06. 2018

Maladechna

Republic of Belarus

DATE: 23. 05 – 01. 06. 2018 (8 activity days) arrival on 23. 05, departure 01. 06 morning

Please, confirm your arrival/departure dates before booking the tickets!

VENUE: Maladechna, Belarus

WORKING LANGUAGE: English (but it’s also not a problem if you or someone of your group doesn’t speak it)

PARTICIPANTS: 8 participants (16 – 30 years old)

COUNTRIES:

• Russian Federation

• Azerbaijan

• Belarus

• Romania

• France

• Estonia

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT:

" Strive to Drive" is a youth exchange that elaborates rather interesting, innovative and new topic which relates to road violence prevention and response. The youth exchange will take place in Molodechno, Belarus and it is an international initiative, in which the organization " Together France" will involve 6 countries. This project aims to educate 48 young people about the importance of Road Violence Prevention and Response, safe driving, prepare them about hazardous situations while on a trip and make them aware about the risks we are faced with in everyday life while involved in the traffic jam.

The project initiative of Together France overlaps with the Road Safety Programme which aims to cut road deaths in Europe between 2011 and 2020 initiated by the European Commission.

" Together France" aims to provide young people with certain knowledge about every field, and we have discovered with our partners that the problem of road violence prevention and response, and reckless conduct of drivers is a common problem in each of the participating countries in this project. The participants at this exchange will come from different countries and culture and will share their experience and opinions about the project topics.

Many fields of our live make us responsible European citizens, and we consider that the respect of our life and being able to secure safety of other people involved in the traffic strongly relates to the concept of good European citizens. By this, during this exchange we will have the opportunity to debate more about the project topic, about the European values, laws and regulations related to safe driving. What makes the concept of this exchange even more interesting is the fact that the participants will have an opportunity to meet local experts, driving instructors, representatives from the Ministry for Road Safety and research deeper the importance of safe driving for themselves as well as for the community.

ACCOMMODATION:

We will stay in the students’ dormitory of the musical school in Maladzyechna, several people per room and in mixed multicultural groups (still boys and girls will not be mixed J). Visit the webpage: http: //mmu. by

The building has rather modern equipment and all the accessibility facilities.

There is Internet in a lot of places in the city, but not in our accommodation place.

Please bring a personal towel with you. Sleeping bags are NOT needed, as we will have the bed linen in the sleeping rooms.

We can provide the accommodation only on the indicated in the invitation dates, any additional days the participants need to take care of on their own.

FOOD:

We will eat in the restaurant, near the place where we sleep.

If you have some special needs for food (vegetarian, some allergies, etc. ), please, inform us about it beforehand. We can provide you just “with/without meet” vegetarian food, if you have some very complicated diet, or as a vegetarian you would like to have some special ingredients, we would appreciate if you could take the food that you need with you.

RULES

Reasonable alcohol politic: This is an International and educational Project granted form European found. Participant should be aware they are not on holidays there (although we will all have a good time together). It’s a special task for group leaders: please, talk about it with your groups. Alcohol is limited during the project

Please, make sure that participants will not get drunk. Problems with alcohol will lead to cancel the participation of the responsible and not reimburse the costs of the travel. Thanks in advance for your co-operation.

No drugs in the activity.

Be on time (especially important for complete the program). It is a question of respect and of organization. You are asked to be active participants.

Respect each other. This is the most important rule. If you don’t you are directly excluded from the project

Active help in cleaning.

Participate and be active.

TRAVEL COST:

We will reimburse to you 100% of all your actual travel costsfor the way go and back if you keep this costs in a limit.

It is very important that you keep ALL your travel documents, including the boarding passes, if travelling by plane. You must give us all your tickets, including also your return tickets that must be already bought for the moment of the reimbursement (during the youth exchange itself), otherwise if we do not have a ticket, we cannot consider it for the reimbursement. It is very-very important.

You must use the cheapest travel option that is possible (buses, trains, low cost airlines, etc. )

We will only reimburse you the travel costs if you participate in the WHOLE youth exchange.

If you have any questions about the travel costs or financial matters, and please contact us before you buy your tickets.

MONEY:

There is a participation fee of 40 eurosthat will be charged from every participant of the exchange. This fee is obligatory.

 100% of your travelling costs will be reimbursed on the condition that the person has all the bills, ticketsand boarding passes(when travelling by a plane) to present to us.

 100% of costs of simple accommodation and basic food are covered by our NGO

The travel costs will not be reimbursed to people, who are not taking part of the entire youth exchange or not respecting the rules of the exchange.

Security:

Please don't take any big cash amount of money with you. We will live in a commonly shared space and it is your personal responsibility to take care of your own belongings.

Insurance:

We highly recommend that each participant takes care of own additional travel insurance for the full duration of the project with travel days included. Please, make sure also that you have a valid European health card with you.

YOUTHPASS:  

Each participant will receive a YouthPass, which:

Certificate of non-formal education (you will take part on an educational activity)

You can include it in your CV and use it for school, university, new job, etc.   In the beginning of the project we will divided participants into a small groups that later will work every evening in the reflection groups where they’ll talk about the day, activities, what they have learned, etc. With all these notes, at the end of the Exchange will be a workshop where the participants will work in their own YouthPass. YouthPass will be reached on the end of exchange.

YOU WILL NEED...  

• Sleeping bag

• Towels and personal things.

• Typical food and drink for intercultural evening.

• Poster, leaflets, card, videos, typical music... from your country, region, city.

• Info, presentation, material, stickers... from your organization.

• Warm clothes.

• Camera, laptop and other equipment making life and work easier.

• Ideas, games, ice breakings, dances and folk for your cultural evening.

• Good mood and energy to be active!

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us!

Mail:   luc. wendling@gmail. com

Join the FB group: Strive to Drive

See you soon! J