In this project there are five organisations participating from different countries: Germany, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Nepal and Latvia. For more details on the organisations please follow the links.
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Creative group MYSTYLe art is an organisation where people can discover and express their style and qualities. They are doing many activities connected to media, pr and art and try to give every activity and project creative input.
Creative group MYSTYLe art is based in Riga, Latvia but does international projects such as international exchanges. The latest exchange they participated in was a dj / vj project in the Netherlands. At the moment they are working on a media exchange connected to the world press freedom day and they are part of this project.
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FLEX Alumni Association of Kazakhstan is a non governmental organization created by outoing young persons of Kazakhstan. The members of FSA FLEX Alumni Association are alumni of Future Leaders Exchange program, educational exchange program providing scholarships for best students administered by US Government since 1992. Though only in 2001 alumni of this program who studied in the US high schools during one year had created a registered legal entity.
All alumni of FLEX exchange program automatically become the members of the association.Currently, the youngest member of Associatino is 16, and the oldest one is 30 years old. De jure we have about 900 members, though de facto, there are about 60-80 active members in Kazakhstan who work and try to organize different events through out the year. The rest become just the participants of different projects. We aldo attract different volunteers and various organizations to join our projects.
FLEX Alumni Association of Kazakhstan is responsible for organizing and executing of various projects that responds to such goals as: Community service/Volunteerism promotion; english language knowledge promotion and understanding of others nations culture; professional development, and other. Most events are annual, and they are known and recognized among Kazakhstani citizens.
One of the last events organized by our association were projects called We Are For A Beautiful City! and We Care!. The first one was ecological campaign, cleaning the main streets of one of the cities of Kazakhstan plus beautifying the streets by mounting the benches and trash cans along the streets. More than 100 people participated there from Almaty. We Care! project was a national antitobacco campaign that consisted of several stages: national antitobacco poster competition, seminars, debate tournaments and conferences at high schools promoting the bad influence of smoking, and auction called Drop Smoking! when citizens who were walking by the campaign could drop the cigarette box, and then to get a prize with Tshirt with logos of all sponsors and organizers of that event.
After collecting a huge amount of cigarette packs, participants burnt them. The other part of projects is related to charity events like giving concerts in elderly houses, collecting funds for assisting to orphanages, making trips to some entertainment places with orphans, etc. Such activities are usully held on some special events like New Year when alumni go watch movies with about 100 orphans, Thanksgiving Day and others. Members of Asociation do not forget about the resolution of youth issues in the country. Thus, up today it was responsible for numerous conferences and seminars by attracting specialists and professionals and bringing actual topics for discussion.
Ideas exchange always exists as a main source for well designed projects. So, as example, recently there was held a week training how to be successful in life for high school students of various villages through Kazakhstan. It consisted of series of workshops on job hunting, CV writing, interview skills and others.
Bright and unusual logos of the events, smart and active participants of the projects, briliant ideas are the things that make the activities of FLEX Alumni Association of Kazakhstan to be recognized in Kazakhstan. All events organized by members of FLEX Alumni Association of Kazakhstan make people being aware of existing issues in the country, bring everyones attention to it and encourage people actively participate in its resolution.
Such organizations as FLEX Alumni Association, in our opinion, shall assist to the development of the new liberal, democratic and prosperous way of living in the world. Since all events organized by FLEX Alumni Association of Kazakhstan aim to develop the civil society, lawful state, and stable democratic environment in Kazakhstan, we will try to continue our activity as sucessful as it is possible.
There are contries in both Asia and Easter Europe involved in the project.
Nepal is a South Asian landlocked country which lies between China and India. The landscape of Nepal varies from the icy Himalayas to the tropical forest in the Terai. Its culture carries 70 different ethnic groups speaking as many as 50 languages and dialects with their own distinct history, costume and culture. Major religion of Nepal is Hinduism and Buddhism.
Nepal ranks first in human right violation from both the state and insurgent. Major part of the population is affected by ongoing situation, both in rural and urban sectors. But still people are unaware of their fundamental rights and the means to achieve them Present scenario is drastic in case of Youth strength. Most of them are engaged in drug addiction led by frustration and unemployment, further boosted by social instability. Internal migration as refugee is increasing day by day. Children of schooling age have drawn to road. Quitting education, mostly at primary and secondary levels, is common.Technical and professional skills development programs is rare. All these aspects will certainly puts impact upon youth mentality.
Corruption has emerged as one of the major social crime. Power holders and top level authorities are themselves engaged in corruption. Local people do not exercise any right and authority to claim. Certain group of people are taking advantage of present status. Youth do not have access upon their destination as their qualification.
Improper education system, irregular schooling days and obstacles created from both the state and insurgent has put bad impact upon educational status of country. Children are missing their access to get proper formal education. Illiteracy is one of the draw back of society since long time. According to data available from local sources (apart from government source, which is not so reliable) more than half of the population still remains illiterate.
INGO and NGO operating at local level to boost educational status and informal education are being displaced due to hard time they have faced. Most of the country lies in hilly region where facility of transportation is still missing. People have to walk for many days to reach near by towns or district headquarters just to get their works done. Major population lies below the poverty line. They have to spend most of the time to join their hand and mouth. In such condition formal education seems very far from their access.
Nepal ranks very low in HDI index. Here economic development is in negative, and national income (NI) is also very low. Poverty is another difficult aspect for the society. Unemployment is so common that major portion of youth power is flying abroad, commonly in gulf countries, selling their strength in low cost. Most of the villages are empty with youth generation. Girl trafficking is so common in remote areas that parent themselves facilitate for the purpose. Here also poverty stands as major cause, next is illiteracy. Available data shows around 700 teenagers and girls were trafficked across the boarders last year (2005), fact figure maybe more.
All of the above listed problems arising finds it roots in poverty, illiteracy and divergence of youth power
Uzbekistan is a beautiful and fruitful land, which lies in the heart of Central Asia. It is the proud, unpredictable heir to Central Asia's richest inheritance with the legendary Silk Route cities of Samarkand, Khiva and Bukhara. The capital of Uzbekistan is Tashkent.
More than 60% of population comprise young people aged 15-24. Having a large share of young population in the country, it is not surprising that Government makes considerable investments in young people. The Government of Uzbekistan is carrying out a number of reforms aimed at providing youth with better access to education, health, labour market and social welfare.
According to the state youth policy, young people are identified as «citizens from 14-30 years old» and there are a number of programs and funds operating in Uzbekistan to support youth. There are two major youth organizations in the country. One of them is Kamolot (“maturity” from Uzbek) the largest youth movement with about 4,6 million young members.
The second is «Fund Forum of Culture and Arts of Uzbekistan» which has a big component that deal with youth issues and supports many large scale youth initiatives. In addition, many international organizations support youth volunteerism and various youth networks that are often related to help solving social issues in the country through small scale projects and peer-to-peer education and information campaigns. It is worthwhile to note the recent boom of youth wings in local political parties and an increasing number of NGOs led by young people.