It is our great pleasure to invite you all to IYC’s Pikkujoulut! 🗓️ 11th of December at 17:00 📍Hietsun Paviljonki (Hiekkarannantie 9, 00100 Helsinki) It will be a warm Christmas celebration concluding our Christmas Campaign “Share your Christmas” 🎄 Our volunteers have been working tirelessly to ensure that this event will be a perfect opportunity […]
Last month some of our IYC volunteers had the chance to participate in the Youth Ambassadors project that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria. The aim of the project was to help Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria to integrate better within the society. It was a great opportunity for our volunteers to learn up close about struggles
“It was an incredible week in which we learned a lot about public speaking and culture, while also having a great time. It was simply spectacular.“ From June 21 to 27 we had the pleasure of organizing MAGNET: an international exchange that took place in Helsinki. It brought together a total of 36 young people from
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Becoming a volunteer may make you feel that your work is undervalued, that you’re wasting your time, or even you can feel operational risks. This and other difficulties may come with volunteering. Is taking risks a bad thing? In words of Frederick Douglass: “If there is no struggle, there is no progress”. IYC’s objective is
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Youth Ambassadors: Building Bridges through Experiential Learning In a world where integration, empathy, and mutual understanding are needed more than ever, IYC Suomi, with Hi European Youth (Hey!, Spain) and Situational Cooperation Open Doors (SCOD, Bulgaria), is proud to introduce the Youth Ambassadors project. It is designed to foster meaningful connections between young migrants, refugees,
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At IYC Finland, we believe the holidays are all about coming together, helping out, and sharing good vibes. This year, we teamed up once again with Amigos de Huancavelica and Mi Pequeña Familia to raise funds for kids in Huancavelica, Peru and MIPEFAM-orphanage in Mexico City. Our “Share your Christmas” campaign brought together volunteers from
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To celebrate the arrival of summer we gathered friends and volunteers of IYC to celebrate the new season and to share experiences and learnings from this course. We chose Seurasaari, as on other occasions, to cook paella and enjoy the good weather of the island. We also had several guitars and the Cajon with which
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Last week a group of young architecture students from the University of Navarra (Spain) came to Helsinki to fix the damages of an old house. They participated in an enriching volunteering activity organized by the IYC network, leaving a big mark thanks to the result of their work. This house, steeped in history and in
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One of the main activities of IYC is the food distribution. Every Friday evening and Saturday morning we come together with a clear mission: to provide basic food and, equally important, to offer company and emotional support to those who are lonely. The NGO is committed to providing support to families in need through our
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We are delighted to announce that the report magazine of 2023 has been already released. In this publication, we have compiled all the most relevant activities, events and projects done during the last year. Through this report, we want to get people closer to the organisation, be transparent and share what we have done, who
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