A.I.M.,z.s.

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A.I.M., z.s. in a non governmental organisation whose mission is to raise awareness and enhance volunteering, active citizenship and non formal education mainly within youngsters along with promoting such values among wide public. We base our mission on tolerance and equality being open to new ideas. We adhere to creativity as a tool to reach such goals. We base our mission further on experience developing professionalism and capability. The main values we promote are democracy, equality, inclusive approach, multiculturalism and respect. We make an effort to involve in our activities more young people especially from disadvantage background, both local as well as international ones. The members of our NGO themselves carry our activities as volunteers. We develop and promote those values in accordance with the principles and values of the European Union.
Our main goals are: - promoting and raising awareness of volunteering and active citizenship on local, regional, national and international level; - promoting values of democracy, equality, inclusive approach and multicultural tolerance and respect; - implementing volunteering programmes; - involving youngsters including those from disadvantaged background in volunteering activities and programmes based on active citizenship approach; - implementing workshops and events within non-formal education in cooperation with local formal education organisations; - developing language competences mainly via engaging youngsters in international activities; - implementing educational events for youth workers incusing teachers based on non-formal education methods and along our main mission; - developing cross-sector cooperation aiming at fulfilling the organisation´s mission and goals; - implementing activities to connect local community with international environment
The target groups of our activites are: - mainly youngsters aged 13-30; - we also involve children aged 7 – 12; - wide public; - cooperating bodies (school, non-formal education organisations, public offices, companies); - parents of school age children; - youth workers including teachers
Regular activities are: - voluntering events; - workshops, seminars, presentations, discussions; - non-formal education events for children and Youth; - PR activities to promote our mission and values among the youngsters and wide public; - youth camps
The people in A.I.M.z.s. have been involved in Erasmus+ since 2015. The history of engagement started with the Project Manager Mrs. Medwell and Project Assistant Mrs. Novotná at another NGO (Farni charita Ceska Lipa) – see further bellow detailed description. Due to the fact Farni charita´s main mission was to provide social services and the idea of Erasmus+ projects at this Organisation was not supported enough, and based on seeing the impact of such projects on the target group and generally local community, Mrs. Medwell engaged in a new NGO AIM AT SUPPORT z.ú., undergoing the whole proces again – see more details bellow. At Farni charita and AIM AT SUPPORT Mrs. Novotná was involved. Mr. Michal Svatoň engaged in activites at AIM AT SUPPORT. At both Organisation we hosted 6 volunteers from 6 different countries at a time (for 12 months) with various disadvantages. During 2017-2019 Mrs. Medwell ran a scientific research under Charles University – Faculty of Pedagogy on the impact of international volunteering experience on volunteers and related target group – see more details bellow. In 2018 under AIM AT SUPPORT,z.ú. Mrs. Medwell applied for Volunteering Partnership under ESC including 3 mobilities. Unfortunately only first mobility took place due to decision of the Founder and Director of AIM AT SUPPORT, z.ú. (Mr. Zacek) who decided in June 2019 close the NGO and therefore also return the grant and finish the Volunteering Partnership project in its course. As Mrs. Medwell, Mrs. Novotná and Mr. Svatoň already knew about the great impact and meaningfulness of such projects and had already extensive experience including hosting volunteers with various challenging disadvantages, they decided not to let it go and established an NGO A.I.M.z.s. – a democratic NGO (zapsaný spolek contrary to previous zapsaný ústav), not to have this happen again in terms of one person deciding over the existence of such great work. Mrs. Medwell repeatedly was sharing her experience at various occassions organised by the DZS, not only in CR but also in Brussels. Further, Mrs. Medwell was appointed by the DZS in 2017 to represent the Czech Republic at the Erasmus+ Generation discussions – in the group on social inclusion, and finally went to Brussels for the gathering in November 2017.
We believe our team as well as the community are very well prepared to continue our activities under ESC projects based on our past experience and our enthusiasm and beliefs to carry out such activites for the public benefit as well as the development of all engaged persons including our team.