The Flag Tour started!

More than 100 staff and volunteers attended the opening ceremony during the Alliance Technical Meeting in Yerevan (hosted by HUJ)!! The flag will now tour in 25 countries all over the world hosted by 36 Alliance Members and Partners and will end his route in November in Great Britain for the General Assembly!

FLY THE FLAG FOR VOLUNTEERING... AROUND THE WORLD!!

Route of the Alliance Flag Tour:

The idea...

The Flag Tour will be officially launched at the Technical Meeting (TM) on 4^th of March in Yerevan, Armenia. Then it will travel from country to country being hosted by 36 members and partners of the Alliance.

The participating organisations will take the flag to one of their workcamps or especially organised events with (international) volunteers, inviting and informing the local population about volunteering on the Alliance level.

The Flag Tour will finish at the General Assembly 2011 in November in Southampton, United Kingdom with a celebration and display of the season’s events.

The Alliance Flag Tour 2011 Mission Statement

The Alliance flag tour celebrates the valuable contribution the voluntary service has on society, communities and individuals. The Alliance Flag Tour raises awareness and the profile of the European Year of Volunteering 2011 and the International Year of Volunteers +10 while encouraging active involvement of people within civil society. This campaign strengthens the partnership of the Alliance and the European Voluntary Service Organisations to empower meaningful community volunteering.

Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations

The Alliance of European Voluntary Service Organisations was founded in 1982 and is presently made up of 47 member organisations in Armenia, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Iceland, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Mexico, Montenegro, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, South Korea, Spain (Spain and Catalunya), Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Each organisation runs an annual programme of International Volunteer Projects in their own country and exchanges volunteers with each other to create an international group of volunteer workers on each project.

This Flag Tour campaign strengthens the partnership of the Alliance and the European Voluntary Service Organisations to empower meaningful community volunteering.

Welcome to the Alliance Flag Tour 2011 blog!!!