Our aim to animate the local community, we will also help local formers, join local events, etc.

W: We will construct the small cottage for Forest volunteers. We will also help local organic farmers in the farms. We’ll also organize volunteer events, which could involve many local people. We would do various community works needed in the area.
S: The theme will be decided later. Bring some info.!
A: A building in the center.. You may share a room with others. Cooked by yourselves by turns.
L: Kikuchi is located in Kyushu island and near the border of Kumamoto, Oita and Fukuoka. 1 hour
from Kumamoto city by bus. Kikuchi is famous for hot springs and its nature beauty.
T: Fukuoka (2 hours by car).
LA: Exchange parties, excursions, etc.
SR: Motivation to actively work and with local people!

The Orthodox Charity Centre "Eleos" has existed since 1996. Centre was created to facilitate delivery of charitable aid to all in need.
The most important purposes of our organisation are:
- help individuals and families in a difficult financial situation;
- help children from poor, broken and socially insecure families and orphanages;
- help senior citizens, handicapped and ill people;
- resist negative social phenomena;
- help emigrants and refugees.

The "Eleos" realize that purposes by:
- Clubs for children from poor, broken and socially insecure families - children coming to club after school lessons and do homework, have fun and sociotherapist with specialist; organisation for children summer and winter holiday rest;
- Immediate Help Centre - organise soups for the poor and homeless during the autumn-winter period; hand out second-hand clothes for the needy, food, purchase medicines;
- Alcoholic Help Centre - psychologist help for people with alcoholic problem and their families;
Apart from the regular staff there is a number of volunteers who are the basic human resources of the Centre. On average there are around 50 volunteers who assist the workers on regular basis. They work in clubs for children, Immediate Help Centre, Alcoholic Help Centre; they try organising actions for fundraising, help children in doing their homework, play with them, prepare meals for the homeless, collect clothes etc.

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Club for children in Suprasl has existed since 1998. The main purpose of this club is work with children who come from families affected by alcoholism and who grow up in an environment menaced by many different dysfunctions. For the whole school year a qualified pedagogue and sociotherapist staff work with children and their parents. Since September children start coming to club after lessons. They do homework and have every day some activities (sociotherapist, sport, art, ecological etc.). In Monastery where the club is big garden where children can play football, volleyball etc. We do for them dinner (they can also eat before dinner, because we have kitchen in club). Around Supraœ there are many forests so we organize for them trips and games outside the club. We cooperate with clubs in Bialystok and together organise occasional parties. During winter and summer holidays we organise for our children camps. We organize also fundraising actions (selling Christmas candles, making and selling postcards etc.). Apart from the regular staff there are also local volunteers who help children do homework and take part in the activities. Supraœl is located in the northem-eastern part of Poland, 15 km from Bialystok (is very good communication with Bialystok). The town of Suprasl is set in the very heart of the picturesque Landscape Park of Knyszyn Forests, beautiful pinewoods growing all over the hills of the ecological area of Bialystok Heights. A treasure of architecture, upon a slope overlooking the charming valley of the river Suprasl. In 1997 Suprasl got the status of a health resort. Supraœl combines the western and eastern cultures, 500 years of history and the present time. The major features in the skyline of Supraœl are the towers of churches: Orthodox, Catholic, Evangelical. There live 5000 inhibitors. Club is in Orthodox Monastery. Volunteers will be live in Biasystok but work in Suprasl (every hour from Bialystok to Suprasl there are 2 -4 buses and from Supraœl to Bialystok also). In Bialystok live 300 000 inhibitors. Bialystok is the capital of Podlaskie province. It is a great administrative, academic and cultural centre. In Bialystok are four cinemas, three theaters. We have good medical care. There are two nature reservations and large territory of communal forests and parks within its boundaries. About 50 000 students study in Bialystok. Located in the distance of 50 km to the Bellarussian border, the city is the place where several routes and railway lines cross.

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The Orthodox Charity Centre was created to facilitate delivery of charitable aid to all in need. The Immediate Help Centre is responsibility for:- organise soups for the poor and homeless during the autumn-winter period;- hand out second-hand clothes for the needy, food (macaroni, flour, sugar, etc.), purchase medicines, lunches at school, pay electricity bills; - provide humanitarian aid to Balarussia (food, clothes, Christmas packages for children);- organise help to emigrants and refugees; - organise personal patronage primarily necessary to senior citizens, the handicapped and lonely; they need help in shopping, both for food and medicines, maintaining the household, and what is more, they need spiritual help; Next to Immediate Help Centre is club for children from poor and socially insecure families. There come Polish and Chechens children. Volunteer can work by one or two days in this club. Apart from the regular staff are also local volunteers who help in collecting food, giving clothes and soups for poor and homeless people. In Bialystok live 300 000 inhibitors. Bia³ystok is the capital of Podlaskie province. It is a great administrative, academic and cultural centre. In Bia³ystok are four cinemas, three theaters. We have good medical care. There are two nature reservations and large territory of communal forests and parks within its boundaries. About 50 000 students study in Bialystok. Located in the distance of 50 km to the Bellarussian border, the city is the place where several routes and railway lines cross.

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