The objective of the institution is to create a possibility to make a personality which is healthy, physically and mentally developed, active and free for democratic social life. The tasks of the organization are:
- To organize subprograms, groups and the financial situation of the function in a way in which EVERY child and young person living in Jelgava could find an activity which is appropriate to their interests and is positive oriented;
- To make the environment of the institution bringing aesthetical feast, motivating to goodness as well as create a feeling of security;
- To help the pupils to understand themselves, to find out their potentiality, to accomplish their interests, as well as motivate them to creative self - expression and development of the personality;
- To offer a wide possibility how to spend the free time after school;
- To integrate the children of minority families in the activities, creating the opportunity to acquire the state language, traditions as well as to feel relevant to Latvia;
- To accomplish students' level of democratic society - tolerance, the ability to make the decisions and to realize them by themselves, to work in a team and to take the leader's position, to generate the ideas, to be responsible of the action and choice.
- To pay a special attention to solving social problems, creating special groups and events as well as supporting and involving children and young adults of social risk group in programmes of interest education.
1. Programs of technical creation - photography, lego, wood - working, technical modelling, building car models.
2. Programs of cultural education - club for pupils of the first grade "Home Alone", boys' club, musical studios "Lai skan" and "Smaids", folcrock music group, musical company "Fantoms", folk dance, studio of fashion dance "Benefice", brake dance studio, dressmaking, leather work, ceramics, games of colours on the cloth, glass, paper, stitch craft group - girls' club, Latvian (as State language), English, complex of activities for preschoolers (language learning, drawing, appliquing, finger work, rhythmics, dance, music), psychology, managers of public sector, course for nannies (psychology, pedagogy, medicine), journalistic, Scouts, cosmetics, "Hairstyle made by ourselves", Fashion model School (defile, make-up, body-art).
3.Environment education programmes - floristic, floriculture.
There are about 3000 young people who are involved in above mentioned interest groups and clubs. The age group is starting from three months old babies who are coming to the baby school and ending with 25 year olds who are still participating in various interest groups or clubs. With the beginning of school year (1st September) also our interest groups start working and also there are some which are working throughout the summer, but usually during summer time all the activities and work is organised in the camp "Ledini" not far from our town.
Jelgava is a town located about 40 km far from Riga, the capital of Latvia. It has been an industrious town, but now one of the most actual problems is unemployment. There are about 70 thousand inhabitants in Jelgava from which about 60 % are Latvian speaking. There is a large river near the castle which has been made into the University of Agriculture, which means that in our town is a great number of university aged people. It is a town with many parks and also one of our centre's buildings is located in a park where young people like to gather.


We partricipating in EVS during 3 years, and want to continue to do it in future too. Of course we have more experience now and see,that 2 volunteers for our organization not enough, becourse our center's kids like volunteers and with plesure learn cultural traditions from them, specialy we need volunteers in summer to help in work in summer camp. In this reason we have motivation to continue to host more volunteers. Of course, as we are a very open organization the aim of hosting an EVS in our organization is to differentiate our daily life by a foreigner, who has a different culture, and not only to whom we could teach something, but also who could teach something to us. We have quite well developed local volunteering programme,and we think , that international volunteers would do the same tasks as our local volunteers too. As mainly the volunteer activities are connected with children, the volunteers could give the impression for the children about different cultures. In this reason we try to chose volunteers from diferent countries. As we are planning to be a sending organization in the future then hosting a volunteer would be one of the ways how to popularize EVS as such. At the same time, we hope that we could develop some future projects with the sending organization.

The project is a short term project for 3 months (1 of June - 31 of August) and the volunteers should be from diferent countries. Volunteers work would be to help teachers with workshops for kids in the summer camp from 9.00- 12.00, and in afternoons to help to organize activities (to teach their national dances or games - anything would be up to volunteers creativity) for kids. The camp is day camp for kids (6-14 years old) from Monday till Friday from 9.00 - 18.00, in Thusday we have night activities with sleeping in tents, swimming pool (in the camp), disco and fire with songs singing and another night activities for kids.

There are no special recruitment criteria for the possible volunteer if talking about the age or gender. The volunteer has to be active, loving children, be brimful of ideas, which he/she could also realise. Linguistic skills - basic English or Russian would be appreciated for quicker integration in the project.

Our project involves volunteers with less opportunities.
It is possible to host a volunteer with less oppportunities (such as from less-privileged region, but unfortunately, not with disabilities). Our organisation has developed some local programmes exactly for children from disadvantegous families and every year we are organising summer camps, where also those children take part.