Volunteer Centre AYA organised a trip to the ecological farm in Kaluga Region, Russia. They wanted to help with the harvest and preparations for the next season. This farm is really new and volunteers of AYA already visited it in spring and helped with planting the potatoes, cabbage and other vegetables. This volunteer trip brought together people who have very different lifestyles and sometimes are not so connected with nature. But these two days helped the young people to get more inspired and energized and some of them got very interested in ecological projects.
This trip also included the meeting of AYA volunteers, local residents and workers of the farm and the nearby village. They talked about the possibilities of the international volunteering, about ecological projects which young people can organize themselves. The participants also learned about YEE and some of our campaigns. They talked about the campaign “30 years of volunteering for environment” but also watched the videos from the Upcycling campaign. Meeting other environmentally-friendly young people and the big interest to working on the farm created the friendly and warm atmosphere of their trip.
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