The final seminar of Youth civil activization campaign “Ukraine, which we build” was held in Kherson on March 6-7 for the representatives of Kherson and Kirovograd regions.

On the whole the project covered seven regional centres of the country. More than 70 persons participated in it. During the study in Campaign they gained knowledge and worked over the main aspects of state functioning, considered the system of cooperation between the main branches of state power and also worked up the instruments for asserting the citizens’ rights. The particular attention was payed to the planning of advocacy campaigns, practicing the basis of planning and conducting street-actions, preparation of appeals, cooperation with mass-media etc.

In the context of the project the participants worked out their own civil campaigns and prepared the proper instruments for their realization. Thus, during the campagn the participants worked up two Campaigns the first one is aimed at struggle against smoking and alcohol and the second one at the development of volunteer movement. The participants should start their realization int he nearest time.

The next stage of the Youth civil activization campaign is the closing seminar of the project in which the representatives of all the pegions will take part in order to exchange their experience and discuss the first results of their active civil postion realization.

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“Youth civil activization campaign “Ukraine, which we build” – is an effective mechanism of looking for the youth, motivated to civil activity, and their involvement, training and directing their potential to the decision of topical problems of Ukrainian society, particularly social problems of children and youth.

The project is realized by UYPO Democratic Alliance together with Hanns Seidel Foundation in Ukraine.