ABOUT US

United Vision is a non-profit organization founded in 2011 based in Prague, Czech Republic focusing on long-term volunteering for youth, youth mobilities in the field of environmental and language education in the Czech Republic and abroad. United Vision is also a founding member of  CCBC coalition, an association of non-governmental organizations that work together to protect biodiversity and educate local population on environmental topics in various parts of the world. 

All members of United Vision have their own unique long-term volunteering experience and want to help other people to experience the power of being a volunteer. Our main goal is to spend time with people we like preparing activities that make sense for community and general public.

 

OUR MAIN CURRENT ACTIVITIES

EUROPEAN SOLIDARITY CORPS

We are an accredited supporting organization of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) building on the European Voluntary Service (EVS) and have nearly 10 years of experience in organizing voluntary activities, recruitment of volunteers, their mentoring and training.

As a supporting organization, we primarily focus on sending Czech volunteers to European (see here) and non-European countries (see the CODET I and CODET II projects below) and in cooperation with partners from the Czech Republic on hosting foreign volunteers in our country.

In 2019, we expanded our scope and acquired a Quality label as a supporting (sending and coordinating) organization of Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps.

 

 

OUR TEAM

 

Lucie Sekničková – Chairman and Brazil ethusiast

 

Anna Poledňáková – Coordinator

Anna has been a member of United Vision since 2013 and focuses mainly on recruitment and preparation of volunteers going to EU and non-EU countries, their support during and after their stay and related PR activities. 

 

Helen Vodrážková – Coordinator for hosting volunteers and sustainable life enthusiast

Helen is an English teacher and a promoter of sustainable life in practice. She is part of the project because she believes that motivated volunteers are delivering skills to Latin America that can change lives of local children and adults. In her opinion, volunteering also changes our western, individualistic thinking and teaches us to understand “cooperativism”, i.e. the concept of “pulling together” in order to make it better for everyone involved.

 

OUR HISTORY AND PAST PROJECTS

CODET II

In 2018, we launched official cooperation within Erasmus+ framework with the non-profit organization AJP (Portugal), Dejavato (Indonesia), JRP (India), COM (Burma), VASE (Ecuador) and ICYE Bolivia and continued to work with Keric ( Slovakia) on the Community Development through English Teaching (CODET II) project, which includes European Voluntary Service in non-European countries.

Under the CODET II project, we sent 4 volunteers from the Czech Republic to partner organizations in Ecuador, Myanmar, Indonesia and Bolivia for 4-6 months in 2019 and 2020.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN ECUADOR

  • VASE ECUADOR is an Ecuadorian non-profit organization that seeks social development in Ecuador through intercultural volunteer exchanges.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN MYANMAR

  • COM Myanmar is a local registered non-governmental organization that seeks peace and a justice through democratic governance and community development programs.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN INDONESIA

  • Dejavato Foundation through voluntary service promotes international understanding and solidarity, social and sustainable development and education. Dejavato organizes short, medium and long-term volunteer programs to work with international partners around the world.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN BOLIVIA

CODET I

In 2017, we launched official cooperation within Erasmus+ framework with the non-profit organization Keric (Slovakia), VSI (Ireland), KYSD (Cambodia), ICYE Honduras, Investigación y Desarrollo Alternativo U Yich Lu’um (Mexico), MTÜ VitaTiim ( Estonia) and CSDS (Vietnam) in the Community Development through English Teaching (CODET) project, which includes European Voluntary Service in non-European countries.

Under the CODET project, we sent 3 volunteers from the Czech Republic to partner organizations in Mexico, Vietnam and Honduras for 3 months in 2018.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN VE VIETNAM

  • CSDS Vietnam is a Vietnamese nonprofit organization founded in 2009. CSDS addresses rural development with a particular focus on climate change and environmental protection, women’s support and youth development through international exchange and non-formal education.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN HONDURAS

  • ICYE Honduras was founded in 1984 and is run by former volunteers. The headquarters of the organization are located in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Except for the main office, it has a network of local non-profit non-profit organizations, public institutions and host families that provide international volunteer facilities for long-term (6-12 months) and short-term (2-16 weeks) education and voluntary service programs.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION IN MEXICO

  • In Mexican Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación y Desarrollo Alternativo U Yich Lu’um people from Sanahcat meet in their free time. They participate in regular workshops and exhibitions on contemporary art and topics related to socio-environmental issues. The building is open seven days a week and provides space for special visitors (post-graduate students, temporary lecturers, volunteers and more).

 

 

In 2016, we became an accredited sending organization of Erasmus + and the European Solidarity Corps.

 

TEACHING ENGLISH IN MEXICO

In the years 2011 – 2017, we focused primarily on raising awareness of the situation in Latin America and sending volunteers to rural areas of Mexico to teach English in a highly effective way. Volunteers taught English in partner communities across Mexico, and had the opportunity to get to know their culture from a completely different perspective than an ordinary tourist. Every volunteer was trained before departure and was provided free accommodation and food for the work done by the partner community. The aim of the collaboration was to help local people to make use of the knowledge of English at local labour market or to start off their own business activities connected with ecotourism.

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITIES IN MEXICO

Xpujil Mexico  Kids in Calakmul

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