Description of organisation

Learning Communities Association is an organization founded in 2013 with the mission to support creation and development of different communities meant to improve life, ensure life long learning, promote social and scientific progress, communities fighting for protection of human rights and protection of wild life.
The reason we decide it to get involved in EVS is related to our believe that young people can contribute to our objectives by being actively involved as EVS volunteers, while learning and getting an important experience. We are convinced that young people are not just beneficiaries of our EVS projects, but more like great contributors at building and sustaining communities.

Association Learning Communities is a non profit organisation and its objectives are:
- Creating opportunities for people to meet people with same interests, share information and build ideas which contribute to progress;
- Develop services and projects for young people and children designed to help them develop abilities and attitudes, so they become active members of their communities;
- Increase active participation of children, young people and adults;
- Offering support to communities promoting education, environment protection, human rights, sport, life long learning, Fair trade, entrepreneurship and intercultural education;
- Increase access of people to technology and information about science;
- Promoting the concept of Non formal education and offering support to those active in this field.

Activities we plan to organize in order to reach our objectives:
- developing voluntary activities where we provide space for active involvement, sharing experiences, solving problems and learning by doing;
- training courses, seminars and study visits;
- online events dedicated to sharing of information ;
- developing online tools to facilitate creation and development of communities;
- facilitating mobility of community members;
- support active participation of our target groups in the life of their community;
- advocacy campaigns;
- outdoor and sport activities;
- create clubs and regular activities for children and young people to learn about nature, about environment protection and conservation, where we create opportunities for our beneficiaries to get actively involved and to experience;
- organising afterschool and summer school activities.

Target groups we are planning to work with are: children 10 – 16 years, young people 16-30 years, youth workers 16-50 years , teachers, trainers and facilitators, volunteers and employers of communitiy organisations.

Our team is formed by people with same interests and passions, people who have worked in different organizations before, people with experience in conceiving activities from scratch, who have been learning to plan, prepare, implement and evaluate their actions and plan further for future directions.

We at ALC believe that is extremly important to follow closely the learning process of us and our beneficiaries, to use evaluation tools periodicaly, to register the results and also the things needed to be improved, to constantly look for alternatives and better ways to do the things, to be honest with ourselves in order to be a better worker and person.