Description of organisation

Loesje as an organisation exists since 1983 and is internationally spread since 1990. Loesje activities today range up to activities in around 30 countries. Loesje has taken part in the Youth in Action Programme since its beginning in 1997 and have sent and hosted a large number of volunteers since then. In Germany, as Loesje e.V., we are currently having 1 EVS project running: called 2011-DE-41 in the last accrediting period.

The objective of Loesje is to exchange ideas and opinions. To stimulate people to create their own ideas and use their own unique talents. Loesje is an organisation that tries to participate in social and cultural changes at both local and international level. The medium Loesje mainly uses for that is posters with short but strong texts (one-liners), which shine a different light on a particular subject. Our main activity is to create such posters, together with our members, but also with people from other organisations. The posters are spread around in the streets, community centers, libraries, schools etc. Our target group is wide, but in some groups we are morepopular: scholars, students, members of other organisations involved in social changes. The threshold for Loesje activities is very low, so that people from all levels of society can join in. With our poster workshops we visit a lot of schools, where we meet advantaged as well as disadvantaged youngsters.

Apart from the core activity of the posters, Loesje e.V. makes international (youth) projects where people from all over the world come together and share experiences and learn from each other. We try to stimulate press freedom, creativity and active citizenship through creative innovative projects, which challenge and stimulate the participants. The projects, as the posters, have a wide range of themes and focuses, but are always based on humanistic values and creativity.