August 2015 Pictures from Svitac

Below is a gallery of August 2015 pictures from Svitac, with a brief report on our activities for that month.

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In August 136 participants attended regular Svitac workshops that included:

Music — samba, guitar, choir and other music workshops for children
Culture and Art Diversity around the World
Fun Day
Knitting workshops
English and German language workshops
“Šprechen Themen Argumentieren!I Meinungen Austauschen???” — informal German workshops for teenagers and young people
“I love English” — informal English workshops for teenagers and young people
Local Language classes for international volunteers
Sports “Freeletics” workshops

Svitac also hosted or participated in summer camps through August, a tradition that dates back to 1999 for us.

The Summer camps in 2015 were organised from 24^th to 28^th August with Children’s Day held on the 29^th of August. The summer camps consisted of Creative, Language and Music camps. Workshops were held every day from Monday to Friday and each workshop lasted 2 hours. An Intercultural evening was organised on 28^th August where international and local volunteers made presentations describing their home culture.

50 children and young people attended the Creative, Language and Music camps
60 people attended the Intercultural evening
150 children attended Children’s Day

We also sent 4 youth to Horizon Watersports in Nydri on Lefkas Island in Greece for a watersports training summer camp from the 1st to the 14th of August 2015, as described in this webpost. This was fundraised for by our partner Firefly International.

Finally, we also held our tenth screening of the FutureShorts film festival the evening of the 28^th August in the Brčko Youth Centre. There were eight short movies shown to 60 spectators: