Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Many flags, one feeling







A new Flag for Volunteering has been created!
Yesterday 28th june, in CAT01 Environmental Action in Costa Brava, a camp in the north of Catalonia, by Fundació Catalana de l'Esplai and COCAT, a new flag was created with the imagination and creativity of the international volunteers we are hosting. They are a nice and worker group, doing an environmental work and different activities in this region.
With a strong creativity and art they have painted this flag (you can see it in the photos) with the slogan "many flags, one feeling". Isn't it nice?

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Flag in Namur, Belgium! (JAVVA)

During the beginning of june was such a nice festival in Belgium : Namur en Mai!
JAVVA was there, the workcamp was about getting involved in building the festival, and cleaning up afterwards.
Why would we tell you about that? Because the Flag was there!



The event we created : thanks to the festival, we had a very good exchange with the locals. Therefore, volunteers decided to get in the street with the Flag and ask people about volunteering.

The question we asked : If you were to do a volunteering, where and what would it be?

Let's gather everybody in the room, papers, scissors, colours, we wrote the question down several times, so that people will be able to write their answers, and then we would hang it around the Flag, in the street!




And there we are, meeting locals, chatting with them about us, workcamps, Flag Tour, international volunteering !


Please appreciate the grass in the street, that was part of our work ! We put the grass down for the festival, and removed it four days later !




There it is, we have lots of answers !
Most of the people would like to do a volunteering in Asia, and work with children, but some would like to work on festivals in U.K., or building and renovating in Africa.


We linked all the answers together, around the Flag.



And the final picture, eight volunteers, three locals, one Flag, eleven smiles !




Enjoy your Flag adventure, greetings from Belgium!



Maëva, with Halim, Alvaro, Aurélie,
Yun, Anna, Stéphane and Salva


Friday, June 3, 2011

Flag in Russia (SFERA)

In the end of May the Alliance Flag reached Russia (Nizhny Novgorod) and was hosted by SFERA.

The official opening ceremony was launched during the Alliance international training course "Volunteer Messenger Project - training for trainers/basic level" which was organized by ERC and TNWG together with INEX and SFERA, brought together around 30 participants from different Alliance member organizations and aimed to prepare volunteer messengers who will spread the word of voluntary service among Alliance workcamps and other events.

Furthermore SFERA has produced its own copy of the Flag and now it is going around all SFERA workcamps in Russia.

The Alliance Flag tour is a great opprotunity to increase the importance and recognition of volunteering for the Alliance! Wish you all successfull Flag events!

Monday, May 30, 2011

Flag in Lechbruck, Germany (IBG)


By the time the flag reached us we have already spent one week in the small village Lechbruck am See in Bavaria.
So...who is we?
We were seven volunteer girls from around the world enjoying a lot of weeding and planting for this community.
An invitation of the local brass band seemed to be the perfect opportunity to introduce the Alliance-Flag-Tour and to share the idea of volunteering. We had a great party together with intercultural exchange, a lot of good food and great fun. We met so many kind people during our stay and we were really impressed about all the voluntary work people here are involved in !!!

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Flagparty in Ilsfeld, Germany

On Thuesday, 28th of April we had a great BBQ-party in Ilsfeld, Germany (hosted by IBG Germany). Almost 50 persons came: the 12 volunteers of our first IBG workcamp, a few members of the DLRG (German life saving association; one of the project partners, who hosted us in their base) and the members of the tennis club (our second project partner) with their families. Even the press celebrated this event with us.

The reason for this party was not just our farewell after 3 weeks full of fun, hard work, sightseeing, friendship, intercultural learning and new experience for all of us. Another reason was the arrival of the Alliance Flag.

I think we did a great job and made voluntary work more popular and visible in this area. The local population was very interessted in this and i think we achieved a lot.

It was a pleasure for us and we wish all of you a great and successfull Alliance Flag event! Sabine Send, Clara Steinheber (Campleaders) and IBG Team



PS:
Now the Flag is in Bavaria, Germany in the second IBG workcamp. This week they will send the Flag to Belgium.



Friday, March 11, 2011

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!!

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Route of the Alliance Flag Tour:


The idea...

The Flag Tour will be officially launched at the Technical Meeting (TM) on 4th 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.