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KERIC hosted 10 youth workers from all over Slovakia during the period of 20 to 24 October 2009. They came here to learn about EVS, improve their English conversation and computer skills needed for hosting EVS volunteers in their organisations in the future.
On 22 May 2009 KERIC launched a new activity whose aim was to provide space for entertainment in the main square and connect skilled and gifted young people from the local community with our volunteers and create a new interesting programme. The youth from Čadca was represented by two hip-hop groups Kindergang and Dance Factory, metal group The scar, a boys drum group, international music group The Gu-da (consisting of our volunteers Giuseppe, Daniel and boys from Čadca), etc. Guests were also Capoeira club from Žilina, ex-volunteers Lenka and Vladka, etc.
A great thing about the event was the wide range of genres, styles, approaches and mixture of nationalities. The speakers also interviewed the volunteers currently hosted by KERIC or those who have been sent abroad.
This has been a completely new experience for the whole KERIC team. We hope to organise this event again next year - with new ideas and improvements. Looking forward to KERIC Activity 2010!
We would like to invite you to a KERIC ACTIVITY taking place in the square in front of the Cultural House on Friday 22nd May 2009. You can enjoy concerts of young musician groups from Cadca, samba and capoeira performances, hip-hop dance, interviews with the international volunteers in KERIC, ex-volunteers who had been abroad, and a lot more...
Our volunteers Gerard, Rodolfo, Giovanna, Giuseppe, Ulli and Dario are inviting you all to a new regular activity - the Tuesday café. It is an open space for everybody to take part in (hopefully) interesting discussions and workshops. The topics planned for this month are Brasilian dances, Italian mafia, and Life of a foreigner in Slovakia. The Tuesday café will take place in the KERIC Underground club, at 6:30 pm - of course on Tuesdays :) Everybody is welcome.
Both, the famous Leonardo da Vinci and also this project of the European Union got their names for the acquisition of professional work experience in another country .
KERIC supports this type of project - sending persons for a three-month intership in the fields of stylist and sport instructor to England - for the first time. The project will take place in the city of Lancaster in a high school, which is devoted to train in these professions. So young people will be able to acquire new experience in the field.
The second option is located Portugal. There are possibilities to do a work placement in the tourism sectors and to work in various positions of the hotel. These work placements are financially secure from the project and will start in February 2014. If you are interested, come to the informational meeting on 25th of October at 10 a.m. in Kericho . If you are not looking for such a professional focus, but you would still like to go abroad and try something new like learn a new language or get to know a new country, we can also give you some information about that.
For more than ten years we are already broadcasting volunteers from around the world with the support of the Youth in Action. At the moment, volunteers, which we sent abroad are in Russia, Costa Rica , Portugal, Brazil, France and Italy. To know more and go up to a year abroad in China, Vietnam, Nepal, Uganda, Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica or anywhere in Europe, come to an informational meeting for the European Voluntary Service on the 4th of October at 10:00 in KERIC.
We have decided to widen our cooperation among non-profit organisations in Europe (France, Italy, the Czech Republic and Slovakia) and in Asia (Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia) in the field of volunteering.
Closely to the holidays, KERIC lived by English. 12 youth workers from Poland, Czech and Slovak Republic came to study English for 7 days, to improve their work with computers and work with youngsters.
Within the project Youth in Action in sub-action Youth Initiative we were first time approved project in which we will cooperate with Polish organization from city Torun.
On the 1st May 2012 we approved two projects of European Voluntary Service. In one we sent two girls Janka Magátová and Simon NOVÁKOVÁ for 1 month to Portugal. Their project has been successfully completed.
Thanks to the approval of the project STEPS TOWARDS CHANGE - NEXT STEP under the Youth in Action sub-Action 3.2 of the Youth in the world, we will be able to visit our partner organizations in Costa Rica, Uganda, Poland, Vietnam and Turkey.
