Slovakia
How can the volunteers participate in helping to solve each of these issues?
- Meeting people from other countries helps the local community become more tolerant and open-minded.
- Show the community that there are different opportunities to act differently with people in the surrounding and start an international dialogue.
- Encourage them to change their behavior and try to motivate them to open their mind and become more active at local level.
Name the most significant social problems in the community?
- Although the region Kysuce is on a crossroads between three countries – Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic, the people are only slowly becoming open to foreigners and a lot of them have prejudice against the unknown. These feeling often come from the absence of opportunties to meet foreigners or people of other races, religions etc. Therefore, the need to raise the European awareness and fight against prejudice and xenophobia is a very important part of our EVS project.
- Homelessness and alcoholism
- General apathy and small-mindedness
