Jaunatne par
Due to the economical declaim in Latvia, many orphanages where closed down at 2007 and all the children disseminated to other orphanages or sent home. Without the guidance of beloved teachers and social workers, they ended up in jail and in the drug/alcohol rehabilitation centers. This experience inspired 3 friends to make the organization which would assist young disadvantaged people in their decisions, because it is very easy in the age of 14-20 to make irreversible mistakes, which would affect you for all your life. On March, 2008 we established the organization “Jaunatne par iesaistisanos” (Youth for involvement). In 2014 transformed the name to "Jaunatne par" with the fallowing goals:
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To promote healthy and socially active lifestyle;
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To involve young socially marginalized people such as orphans, youngsters with behavior and drug addiction problems, representatives from national minorities, inhabitants of the rural areas, physically or mentally challenged young persons into society;
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To provide necessary training to improve social skills and the level of education;
We love to explore the nature and history of Latvia. We organize velotours, boat trips, city games. We love camping and staying outdoors.
We promote volunteering and non - formal learning. We have realized various projects in cooperation with cooperation with State Employment Agency, State Probation Service and schools from Cesis and Cesis region. We also provide internship for the disabled students and unemployed youngsters.
The history and the main goals of the organization:
In our office the young people could meet informally with our ex-volunteers and get to know more about the possibilities for the young people to learn work and spend free time in Cesis, in Latvia and in Europe. We welcome the youngsters without age limit. It is very important, because there are quite few places, where 13-17 young people could go and meet each other. We plan to involve young artists and musicians who need a place to perform and exhibit their works.
In addition to our paid staff, our organization has 6-10 active members, who are mostly ex volunteers – coming from rural areas, members of national minorities of Latvia(Russians, Lithuanians and Jewish), disabled young people, young mothers after maternity leave trying to return to labor market, orphans and unemployed persons. With our personal example we demonstrate that every problem has a solution, sometimes you just have to admit it and not to be afraid to ask for others to help.
We organize regular information campaigns for socially marginalized youth in State Employment Agency and in The State Probation Service on topics such as: socially active citizenship, healthy and active lifestyle, and program “Erasmus+”. We spread out the written information about our organization and other friendly organizations, young person would be interested in. We organize information campaigns about “Erasmus+” in schools during the school year.
Green Thinking Workshops:
Twice a week we organize green-thinking workshops, during which we use disposable materials like glass jars, carboard boxes and plastic bottles, and reshape them and give them another life instead of throwing them out. We also use any kind of spoiled objects, like chairs, lamps, unwanted clothes, which are given new life. Later on we furnish the appartment, which we use for hosting the guests of our organization.
