Descrizione dell'organizzazione

Dione established in 2016 in Nicosia,Cyprus. It is a non-governmental and nonprofit youth organization. The main goals of the organization are to promote culture of Cyprus and to give motivation to young people to participate in EU projects . Moreover Dione promotes gender equality anti-racism policies , human rights and social inclusion of people with less opportunities. Finally, Dione gives emphasis in the development of the skills and the non-formal education of young people that are associate with our NGO or with the communities that are in cooperation with Dione. To achieve our goals our permanent staff and associates organize events based on culture, lectures about social inclusion of people with less opportunities and seminars to inform and update young communities about the EU projects.
The majority of the members participated in couple of EU projects through two other Cypriot based organizations Rivesco and Organization for Promotion of European Issues.
Dione has 15 permanent unpaid staff plus 18 associates. The members of young people reached is approximately 75 with meetings every 15 days. During summer and Christmas holidays it might be once a week.
We cooperate with the village of Pera and Kambia which are located in the rural areas of Nicosia District . Additionally we collaborate with the Municipality of Morphou an occupied city of Cyprus, Morphou Youth council and Avlona an occupied village. Our organization promotes gender equality and that’s why our president is femele as well as approximetely 40% of our members

Temi di inclusione

Questa organizzazione è disposta a coinvolgere volontari che si trovano in situazioni che rendono la loro partecipazione alle attività più difficile, delle seguenti categorie e per diversi tipi di progetto:

• Disabilità
• Problemi di salute
• Rifugiati