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The EVS project “Second Wave” started in May 2016 and lasted more than 1 year in Birzai town, Lithuania. Project involved 9 partners, 5 sending organizations from Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, Armenia and Russia which had sent volunteers into three hosting organizations and 1 coordinating organization. Objectives of the project included improvement and expansion of activities locally for children and families and local youth - volunteers, creation of spaces for development of volunteers’ skills and competencies to increase their employability, exchange knowledge and skills in children and family free time facilitation, introduction of local youth with possibilities to gain valuable experience in voluntary activities, which remarkably increased their employability, contribution in youth empowerment to became competitive in labour market, promotion of volunteering locally in Birzai area and internationally using social networks of partners involved.The main targeted beneficiaries were children, families and local youth tending to get more involved locally. Hosting organizations were Birzai museum, regional park and kindergarten and all of them were highly value holistic attitude to person's development, so there were big flexibility for volunteers to choose fields of self development upon their interests. During the project six volunteers were developing new educational programs for children and families and these programs were tried out within the project frame, afterwards improved and adjusted were easily used in similar organizations. In addition, volunteers had activities involving local youth which helped to reveal the link between volunteering and employability. All the activities were based on non formal education principles and were directed to increase employability of volunteers and variety of motivating and practically useful activities for children, families and youth in remote area of Lithuania.
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