CACTUS - Community Action Ukrainian Style
Summary
This project will provide 80 already active youth in Western Ukraine with the basic knowledge, means and eagerness to implement their 1st projects and get actively involved in changing their community
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Our country, Ukraine, is plagued by numerous problems many of which derive from not caring and not willing to get actively involved in the lives of our communities. With the CACTUS seminar we aim to bring up a new generation of ambitious youth leaders, who really care and want to make the lives of their home communities better by providing them with the knowledge, enthusiasm and means to do that
Activities
We will hold classes on the subjects of project planning, teamwork, leadership and critical thinking as well as provide many practical opportunities at and after CACTUS for the participants to see their potential, abilities and real change they made
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $4,450
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $9,550
Total Funding Goal: $14,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The CACTUS project will provide 80 partcipants with the means to carry out small community projects and 40 staff with experience of doing so. In all it will work as a multiplier for sustanaible change all over the region.
Project Message
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead, One of the active indviduals that inspired us
Who is Running This Project
Contact
Illya Symonenko
Coordinator of Volunteer Development
Chelyabinska 9b, apt. 62
Kyiv, 02002
Ukraine
380977637270
Email:
Project Sponsor
Organization
Youth NGO Iskra - "the Spark"
63, Chkalova St.
Mykolayiv,
Ukraine
54055
Ukraine
+38067 911 4999
Where this Project is Located
Country
This project is located in 
Ukraine
and can also be found under 
Education.
For more information about Ukraine, read the Human Development Report on Ukraine or the Wikipedia entry for Ukraine.
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 17, 2009
Latest Update from the Field
The success of CACTUS 2009 and a much-awaited CACTUS 2010
By Illya Symonenko - CACTUS Director, August 12, 2009 01:50 PM
Overall 56 CACTUS participants had a chance to take part in classes on Teambuilding, Country Studies, Arts and Project Planning, where they designed a project to implement when they go back home. Each of the classes was summed up by an all-CACTUS event such as the Team Quest, a Model UN session, a Talent Show and a Project Fair, where they presented their own initiatives such as holding a career fair, helping out the elderly, going to an orphanage, etc. After the fair each of the groups was able to meet with its pair of project mentors who will guide them and encourage them on the tough road to implementing their first project. All of the participants will carry their own project during the fall. We will all be eagerly following their progress!
Having experienced such positive and excited feedback from the participants it would be hard to tell them that there's going to be no CACTUS next year, especially as we have so much to teach them now that they've learned the basic of planning their own projects.
That's why we decided to have a new, advanced program next year - CACTUS '10! It will retain the basic framework but will allow for a more advanced curricula in particular on leadership and self-development and also will have a bigger emphasis on creating own projects with more time for their design and feedback. We will also increase the regional scope of our participants inviting them from all over the country and doubling the amount of out of town participants - to 60. This way we will be able to create a national network of alumni ready and eager to implement social projects together!
Thank you for all your help and support with carrying out CACTUS 2009, which proved better and more effective than anyone could have imagined! You truly made a difference for all these kids and let them know how to create their own projects, be good leaders and work together for a better future!
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