Poland - SWM Wroclaw

Salesian Voluntary Missionary Service Youth for the World Branch in Wroclaw brings together volunteers - mostly students from Wroclaw and the surrounding area. They engage in activities for sustainable development. SWM's mission is to promote social development, especially by the wider education and upbringing of the poor, so that in the future could form the basis of democratic civil societies. This allows us to achieve our statutory objectives, including assistance to countries in the Global South. The education system, on which it is based, assumes the prevention of pathologies and helping local communities to assume responsibility for their future. We are implementing projects in the field of prevention and medical care, construction of basic infrastructure, education craftsmen and local professionals. In Poland, our statutory objectives are Global Education and development of children and youth, shaping active social attitudes, promote the idea of volunteering, creating favorable conditions for turning in social activities and public cooperation with local, regional and international partners. SWM attracts of public attention on the environment and raise awareness of young people about environmental life. From the beginning (2008), volunteers SWM Wroclaw realized 27 aid projects in countries of the Global South. Our activity are also educational projects - publication of a book of fairy tales from Zambia "Story from the Zambezi River" and "Global Education Week in Wroclaw", which aimed to raise awareness among young people of Wroclaw and the region on global issues and cultures of developing countries and also to mobilize them to take social initiatives. In 2009 we took part in the project "You can! Actively Act. Stimulation of activity and capacity building of local leaders for self-development. " In 2010 SWM Youth for the World Wroclaw Branch carried out a project "I see, I learn – changing! The creation of a group of trainers global education. " The project was co-financed by the Operational Programme Civic Initiatives Fund and aimed at by organized 10-day training, preparing group of trainers to teach the youth on the issues of global development. Prepared in this way the group has conducted educational workshops in ten schools in Lower Silesia. The project was released a publication containing prepared by trainers lesson plans for teachers. Since 2013 SWM Wroclaw, along with other branches of SWM Youth for the World in Krakow and Poznan, implements the project "Together for Development - active global education in schools" funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Two editions of this project aimed at preparing teachers to raise awareness about global education at school level. In addition, SWM Wroclaw volunteers conducted a series of meetings on topics of global education in schools, raising awareness of young people about environmental life. These activities are continuous, financed from its own funds and their implementation results from the memorandum of association. These meetings are conducted for students learning at different levels of education, have the form of, among others, workshop, meetings with the volunteer working in the countries of the South, game simulation, projection of the film. The Association pays special attention to each project was based on a thorough evaluation of previously implemented projects. This allows you to develop more and better system management, monitoring and evaluation, and thus create projects most effective. As you can see from all activities that our organisation took part or organise you will see that our youth workers are working a lot with environmental thats why we want to take part in program SEOSOS. We will try through our involment to give our experticite through the leader of our group that she does a lot in this area as you can see from the followings Magdalena Szewczyk, PhD, biology teacher with experience in leading European ecological project. She prepared and coordinated projects: Biodiversity of European cities- 2004 - 2007 National parks of Europe – 2011 – 2013 Biodiversity of rivers – 2013- 2015 Volcanoes and earthquakes of Europe - 2015-2018 Youth exchange project: Climate change as fast as a fashion She works with young people. She was a trainer in Youth Project: Non formal education. She prepared many new activities with the young. She was trained on workshops in England, Greece and Malta. She is the author of articles: „Art workshops – opportunity for creative expressions of students”, The Learning Teacher Magazine, 4/2011 „Simulation games in teaching ecology”, The Learning Teacher Magazine, 2/2012 „Nature conservation and schools”, The Learning Teacher Magazine, 3/2013 „ Youth exchange for global warming”, The Learning Teacher Magazine, 3-4/2014